Weston Glaser

Glaser joins the Bears after spending the 2022 and 2023 seasons at Northwestern [La.] State. He served as the interim head coach, assistant head coach and defensive coordinator during the 2023 season, after serving as the defensive coordinator in 2022. 

Glaser previously served four years at Campbell, functioning as the defensive coordinator/assistant head coach in 2018-21. 

His 2022 defense helped Northwestern State to a 4-0 start to the year in the Southland Conference, its best start in 35 years, and saw the Purple Swarm earn three all-conference honorees. Cornerback William Hooper was named all-conference and signed an undrafted free-agent contract in the NFL. Defensive lineman Jomard Valsin Jr. and PJ Herrington, made the all-conference team under Glaser’s tutelage. 

A member of the 2019 American Football Coaches Association’s 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership institute, Glaser coordinated a Camel defense that was the No. 2-ranked pass defense in its abbreviated four-game 2020 season. That season, Campbell faced four FBS teams and surrendered 185.2 passing yards per game.

During his Campbell tenure, Glaser’s defenses twice led the Big South in pass defense and helped the program post a 6-5 mark in 2019, marking the second of back-to-back winning seasons which had not been done at Campbell in the school’s modern era (dating to 2008).

As the interim defensive coordinator for the final three games of 2018, Glaser’s defense led FCS in fewest passing yards allowed (122.5) and ranked seventh nationally in pass efficiency defense (103.27). Included in that stretch was a single-game school record for fewest passing yards allowed as Campbell held Presbyterian to 12 yards in a 34-6 Camels’ win.

Campbell defensive lineman Brevin Allen was named the 2021 Big South Defensive Player of the Year under Glaser’s tutelage, giving Glaser nine all-conference and two all-American selections since the 2019 season.

A former Sam Houston quarterback, Glaser began his coaching career at his alma mater, spending three seasons (2010-12) on the Bearkat staff, helping Sam Houston post a 31-10 record, capture two Southland Conference titles and reach consecutive FCS National Championship Games.

The Waco, Texas, native worked with UTEP’s linebackers and defensive backs from 2013-15 and served as an assistant pit crew coach for Hendrick Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams, driven by Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. from August 2014-January 2015.  During his time with Hendrick Motorsports, Glaser also worked for the Cleveland Browns scouting department.

Glaser continued his coaching career at Texas A&M in 2016 working with the defensive backs and spent the spring of 2018 as the defensive coordinator at Howard Payne University before moving to Campbell.

Glaser and his wife, Laura, have two sons, Deacon and Brooks.