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WVU Football Coach Tre’ Bell Leaving for Job With UMass

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A WVU football coach is going to UMass after all, as defensive assistant coach Tre’ Bell will reportedly be joining the Minutemen.

Bell served as the pass game specialist and spears coach with the Mountaineers this season, his first in Morgantown. He will reportedly become the defensive backs coach at UMass under former Rutgers defensive coordinator Joe Harasymiak, who was hired as UMass’s new head coach last month.

Bell came to WVU after serving as the cornerbacks coach at Akron for two years. He spent the 2021 season as a graduate assistant at Florida State. Prior to that he spent two seasons as a GA at Mississippi State.

Bell played collegiately at Vanderbilt, graduating in 2018.

Former WVU head coach Neal Brown’s name was brought up in relation to the UMass head coaching job, although reports of concrete interest between the two sides never materialized.

Bell is the first WVU football assistant to leave for a new job since Brown’s firing earlier this month. The rest of WVU’s assistant coaches are working to prepare the team for their Frisco Bowl game against Memphis next week, led by interim head coach Chad Scott.

For a related story, WVU football has wrapped up interviews in its head coaching search and a decision is expected soon.

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