WVU Football Hires Defensive Analyst
On Tuesday, the West Virginia football program announced Tre' Bell as the newest addition to the football staff as a defensive analyst.
West Virginia University Department of Athletics Press Release
In his role at WVU, Bell organizes, implements and maintains all aspects of game analysis for the defensive coaching staff with an emphasis on the defensive secondary. He analyzes game film and formulates game plans to assist the defensive coaching staff with game preparation. He also charts and tracks statistics during practice and games and assists the head coach and coaching staff with on-campus recruiting operations.
Bell comes to WVU after serving for the past two years as the cornerbacks coach for Akron. While with the Zips, he coached three All Mid-American Conference performers Tyson Durant, Darrian Lewis and KJ Martin. The trio combined for three interceptions and 16 pass breakups during the 2023 season and five interceptions and 13 pass breakups in 2022.
Bell spent the 2021 season as a defensive graduate assistant at Florida State, where he coached All-Atlantic Coast Conference first-team defensive back Jammie Robinson. Robinson tied for the lead in the ACC in interceptions (4), and the Seminoles ranked No. 6 nationally in red zone defense and No. 25 in interceptions (12).
Prior to that, he spent two years as a graduate assistant coach at Mississippi State. The Bulldogs advanced to bowl games each season. True freshman Emmanuel Forbes earned Freshman All-America honors in 2020 after leading the SEC with five interceptions and ranking first nationally with three interception return touchdowns. Bell also helped develop Cameron Dantzler, who was a third-round pick by Minnesota in the 2020 NFL Draft.
He served as a quality control coach working with defensive backs at Eastern Kentucky in 2018 where he mentored All-Ohio Valley Conference First-Team defensive back Leodis Moore III (2018) and second-team cornerback Cornelius Floyd (2018).
He played collegiately at Vanderbilt. After redshirting in 2013, he played three years for the Commodores, appearing in 20 games during the 2014 and 2015 seasons and recording 33 tackles. Bell sat out the 2016 season after transferring to UConn and appeared in all 12 games, including eight starts his senior year. He finished with 49 tackles, one interception, two pass breakups and three forced fumbles.
A native of Union, New Jersey, Bell earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from Connecticut in 2018 and his master’s degree in education from Mississippi State in 2020.
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