Reggie Bain enters his first season with SMU in 2025 in the role of graduate assistant for the offense.
He previously spent the past three years as a graduate assistant at Miami, where he worked with the offensive line.
Prior to Miami, Bain spent the 2021 season at Illinois as an offensive graduate assistant, where he helped the Fighting Illini to a pair of road ranked wins in 2021. The Illini won at #7 Penn State in nine overtimes, the longest game in college football history, and won at #20 Minnesota, the program’s first ever win over a College Football Playoff ranked opponent.
Before coaching, Bain played in 50 games at FAU from from 2014-18. He was a 247Sports Freshman All-American and Conference-USA All-Freshman Team pick as a true freshman in 2014, All-Conference USA second team honoree as a sophomore, then had back-to-back All-Conference USA first team seasons as a junior and senior.
After Bain’s sophomore season in 2015, he missed the following year due to a broken hip suffered in a motor scooter accident. Bain watched many of the Owls’ 2016 games from an outpatient rehabilitation center, before working all the way back to all-conference form in 2017 and 2018.
Bain is a native of Miami, Florida, and graduate of Miami Central High School. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a degree in management.
