University of California Athletics

Bob Gregory enters the first year of his second stint at Cal in 2025. Gregory served as Cal’s defensive coordinator from 2002-09. This time, Gregory will serve as a senior defensive assistant.

• Gregory has more than 20 years of west coast coaching experience throughout his career. 

• After his playing career at Washington State, Gregory has been a part of coaching staffs at Cal, Washington, Oregon, Boise State and Stanford. 

• Before joining the Golden Bears, he served as the special teams coordinator and safeties coach at Stanford.

• Prior to Stanford, Gregory spent a season on Oregon’s staff (2022) after his seven year stint at Washington.

• Gregory was Washington's defensive coordinator in 2021 before becoming the interim head coach midway through the season. For the five seasons prior, Gregory had served as UW's special teams coordinator.

• Gregory joined Washington after spending the 2013 season as the linebackers coach at Boise State. He was also interim head coach for Boise State in the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl after Chris Petersen departed for Washington.

• Gregory had two stints at Boise State, the second starting in 2010 as linebackers coach. 

• From 2002-09, Gregory served as defensive coordinator at California, a capacity he also held at Boise State in 2001. With the Golden Bears, Gregory's defenses were annually ranked among the nation's best. In eight seasons under Gregory, the Bears allowed opponents an average of 22.5 points per game.

• The Bears' defense ranked among the top 10 nationally in four different categories during the 2008 season, while his 2004 team was second in the nation in rush defense (82.5) and eighth in scoring defense (16.0). Gregory was a finalist for the Broyles Award in 2004, which honors the top assistant coach in football.

• Gregory joined Dan Hawkins' Boise State staff in 2001 to become the defensive coordinator after working together at Oregon. In Gregory's only season as defensive coordinator at Boise State in 2001, the Broncos were second in the WAC in scoring defense (23.3 ppg) and rushing defense (118.1 ypg).

• At Oregon, Gregory served as defensive backs coach from 1998-2000. He was defensive coordinator at Willamette (Ore.) from 1992-97 and was defensive backs coach in 1991.

• He spent two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant at Oregon in 1989 and 1990 after starting his coaching career at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. in 1987-88.

• Gregory is a 1987 graduate of Washington State, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English. He played linebacker and defensive back for the Cougars. Gregory earned his master's degree in educational policy at Oregon.

Year-By-Year Coaching Positions
Season: Team – Coaching Position

1987: Washington University (Mo.) – Defensive Backs
1988: Washington University (Mo.) – Defensive Coordinator
1989-90: Oregon – Graduate Assistant
1991: Willamette – Defensive Backs
1992-97: Willamette – Defensive Coordinator
1998-2000: Oregon – Defensive Backs
2001: Boise State – Defensive Coordinator
2002-09: California – Defensive Coordinator
2010-13: Boise State – Linebackers
2014-15: Washington – Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers
2016-19: Washington – Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers/Special Teams Coordinator
2020: Washington – Inside Linebackers/Special Teams Coordinator
2021: Washington – Interim Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator/Inside Linebackers
2022: Oregon – Defensive Analyst
2023-24: Stanford – Safeties/Special Teams Coordinator
2025: California – Senior Defensive Assistant