The first time I spoke with Trent Bray, he told me about his earliest job in football . The son of a coach in Pullman, Wash., he was tasked with scampering after Washington State defensive coordinator Bill Doba on the Martin Stadium sidelines to make sure his headphone cables didn’t get tangled.

If anybody has ever been born to coach, it was Bray.

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