TicketsBrad Glenn joined the Cincinnati staff in 2023 as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach. He is entering his third season at UC and his 31st year coaching overall.
The Bearcats averaged an impressive 420.6 yards of total offense per game in 2024, which ranked 36th in the nation. UC’s balanced offense was led by running back Corey Kiner, who recorded his second consecutive 1,000-yard rushing season, and All-Big 12 First Team tight end Joe Royer, who set a school record for receptions by a tight end with 50. Quarterback Brendan Sorsby accounted for 27 total touchdowns with 2,813 passing yards and 447 rushing yards. He collected Big 12 Newcomer of the Week honors twice and was the only player in the country with a 425 passing game and a 125-yard rushing game.
Glenn’s receiver’s unit was led by Xavier Henderson, who wrapped up his two-year stint as Cincinnati’s No. 1 receiver with team bests of 59 receptions and 738 yards. Transfer Tony Johnson, a former walk-on, led the Bearcats with six touchdown catches.
Glenn had an instant impact on Cincinnati’s offense in 2023, helping guide a Bearcats’ rushing unit to 217.1 yards per game – the nation’s fifth-best average. Cincinnati also tallied 426.1 yards of total offense – good for 33rd in the country. Kiner recorded the 20th 1,000-yard rushing season in Cincinnati history, while right guard Luke Kandra collected Second Team All-America honors for Walter Camp and Third Team All-America accolades from the Associated Press.
Henderson totaled 58 receptions for 782 yards and three touchdowns. He had a 12-catch, 140-yard game against Miami (Ohio), tying for the fourth-most receptions in a game in school history.
Overall, Kandra earned All-Big 12 First Team honors from the AP and Second-Team accolades from the league’s coaches, while Henderson and center Gavin Gerhardt grabbed honorable mention all-conference accolades.
Glenn spent the 2022 season as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Virginia Tech following a very successful run as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Georgia State from 2019 to 2021.
Under Glenn’s direction, the Panthers averaged a school-record 33.3 points per game in 2020 following a 2019 season in which they set school records for total yards (439.8 ypg) and rushing (241.6 ypg).
In 2021, Glenn’s quarterback Darren Grainger threw for 16 touchdowns and just four interceptions, while Georgia State had seven offensive players collect all-conference honors.
GSU’s 2020 team was led by quarterback Cornelius Brown IV, who ranked second in the Sun Belt in passing (227.8) and total yards (257.9) and snagged MVP honors at the LendingTree Bowl. The Panthers had six all-conference selections that fall, too.
Led by running back Tra Barnett, who led the Sun Belt with 1,453 yards, GSU finished No. 13 in the country in rushing in Glenn’s first year with the Panthers in 2019 and he was nominated for the Broyles Award.
Prior to joining Georgia State, he spent seven seasons as the associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Western Carolina under then-head coach Mark Speir, UC’s chief of staff during the 2023 season. In his last five seasons at Western Carolina, his quarterback averaged more than 2,400 passing yards and 600 rushing yards. He coached WCU’s all-time leading passer Troy Mitchell and 2016 FCS National Freshman of the Year Tyrie Adams.
Glenn worked with Cincinnati head coach Scott Satterfield on the Appalachian State staff from 2005 to 2008, winning three straight FCS national titles while coaching slot receivers and tight ends. When Satterfield left to coach at Toledo, Glenn replaced him as the Mountaineers quarterbacks coach in 2009 and coached two-time Walter Payton Award (FCS player of the year) winner Armanti Edwards.