Beyah Rasool was a football player at Rincon/University High School, 2004-05, and later spent two years as a defensive back at Eastern Arizona College. He then worked at becoming a coach, filling high school assistant roles for some of Tucson’s most successful coaches: Matt Johnson, Pat Nugent, Nemer Hassey and Jeff Scurran.
But after a few years, Rasool thought his coaching career, which concluded at Pima College under Jim Monaco in 2012, was finished. He worked 2½ years as a recruiting director of Up With People, traveling globally, followed by three years as a fundraiser for Up With People, an organization that stages song and dance performances promoting themes such as multiculturalism, racial equality and positive thinking.
In 2019, Rasool got back into coaching, as a graduate assistant at Missouri. After two seasons he was hired in a similar role at Arizona under first Kevin Sumlin and later Jedd Fisch. By 2023, Bowling Green hired him to be a secondary coach, and last year, the Florida Gators hired Rasool for a similar position.
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Last week, Rasool hit the coaching jackpot. New Las Vegas Raiders coach Pete Carroll hired him to be a defensive assistant in the NFL. He joins a staff that includes former Arizona offensive coordinator Brennan Carroll, who left Fisch’s Washington staff to reunite with his dad.
The only other high school football player from Tucson to coach in the NFL is Chris Foerster of Sabino High School, who played at Colorado State and has been in the NFL for 32 years, now part of the San Francisco 49ers offensive line/run game staff.
