Football
- Title:
- Wide Receivers/Quarterbacks
- Email:
- bhamdan@missouri.edu
- Phone:
- 882-2214
Bush Hamdan joined the Mizzou football staff in January, 2020. He brings more than 10 years of collegiate and professional coaching experience from coast-to-coast. Entering the 2022 season, Hamdan will guide the development of the Mizzou quarterbacks.
In 2020 and 2021, Hamdan coached the Tiger receivers and quarterbacks. His receivers totaled 3,259 total yards, 271.6 yards per game and 25 scores in 2020.
Hamdan arrived in Columbia after spending four seasons on very successful teams at the University of Washington, with a one-year stint with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons in the middle. In 2018 and 2019, he served as the Huskies’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for head coach Chris Petersen, who he was a quarterback for in his playing days at Boise State (2004-08).
He first started working on Petersen’s Washington staff in 2015 as an offensive quality control assistant, and was promoted the following season to wide receivers coach and pass game coordinator. The Huskies won a pair of Pac-12 Conference Championships during his tenure in Seattle (2016, 2018) and reached the 2016 College Football Playoff.
The Huskies' 2018 offense compiled 3,337 passing yards, the fourth-highest total in UW history. In terms of total offense, UW's 5,805 yards were third-most ever at the school, while the 414.6 yards per game ranked sixth in program history. The 2018 squad also posted top-10 marks in total first downs (310, 4th), first downs by rushing (130, tie-6th) and first downs by passing (156, 2nd).
During the 2016 season, Hamdan coached the prolific wideout duo of John Ross III and Dante Pettis, who set a Pac-12 record with a combined 32 receiving touchdowns. Ross earned All-America honors and later was taken as the No. 9 overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, while Pettis went in the second round.
In Hamdan’s lone season in Atlanta, the Falcons went 10-6 and reached the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs after a 26-13 wildcard game win at Los Angeles. He coached quarterback Matt Ryan, who finished sixth in the league in passing that year, with 4,095 yards.
Hamdan spent the 2014 season as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Davidson, where he coached starting quarterback J.P. Douglast to a 66-percent completion percentage and a 130.41 pass efficiency rating. Wide receiver William Morris caught 98 passes for 1,224 yards, a Davidson record.
The Wildcats had five players earn postseason honors from the Pioneer Football League, including running back Jeffrey Keil, the offensive freshman of the year. In 2014, Davidson increased its scoring average by nearly 10 points from the previous year and its total offense average by 40 yards per game.
Prior to his time at Davidson, he held the title of co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas State, helping to lead the Red Wolves to the 2013 Sun Belt Championship and a berth in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, a 23-20 win over Ball State. Starting signal caller Adam Kennedy, a transfer from Utah State recruited by Hamdan, completed 69.2 percent of his 315 attempts for 2,363 yards and a 139.93 efficiency rating while a balanced offensive attack averaged 407.8 yards per game (205.7 by rush and 202.1 by pass).
In 2012, Hamdan helped coach Florida to an 11-2 record and a berth in the Sugar Bowl as the Gators' wide receivers coach. He was promoted to the position by then-Gators head coach Will Muschamp just prior to the start of the season and coached four players who played in the NFL – Frankie Hammond, Solomon Patton, Andre Debose and Quinton Dunbar.
Prior to his time in Gainesville, Hamdan coached tight ends at Sacramento State in 2011 and was an offensive intern at Maryland in 2010. During his season with the Hornets, he was part of an historic upset of Oregon State in the season opener. Hamdan began his coaching career as a student assistant at Colorado in 2009, where he worked with offensive coordinator Erik Kiesau, who went on to serve in the same role at Washington.
At Maryland, he worked with freshman quarterback Danny O'Brien, who broke nearly every freshman passing record at Maryland, earning ACC Rookie of the Year honors. Hamdan was part of a Ralph Friedgen staff that made one of the biggest turnarounds in recent college history, posting a 9-4 record after having gone 2-10 in 2009. Friedgen promoted Hamdan to quarterbacks coach for the 2010 Military Bowl (a win over East Carolina) after James Franklin left to take the head coaching job at Vanderbilt.
A two-time team captain, Hamdan was a quarterback at Boise State, winning the Bronco Excellence Award following his senior season. In his last three seasons, all played under Petersen, the Broncos posted a 35-4 overall record, including a perfect 13-0 mark in 2006 and a win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. He earned his bachelor's degree in communications from Boise State in 2008 and received his master's in athletic administration from Idaho State in 2009.
A standout high school quarterback and baseball player at Bishop O'Connell in Arlington, Va., and a native of Gaithersburg, Md., he earned Washington D.C. all-metro honors. His brother, Gibran, played quarterback at Indiana and in the NFL. Gibran was drafted by Washington in 2003 and spent time on the active rosters at Washington, San Francisco and Seattle while also earning NFL Europe MVP honors in 2006 as a member of the Rhein Fire.
Hamdan and his wife, Brita, are the parents of a daughter, Sedona, and a son, Archer.
