Gregg Smith begins his fifth season as offensive line coach at Arizona State and his 42st year overall as a football coach.
Smith has coached alongside Dennis Erickson for 27 years and has 40 total years of football coaching experience. During the majority of Smith's career, he has served as Erickson's assistant head coach and offensive line coach.
Smith spent the 2006 season coaching at the University of Idaho after spending the 2003 and 2004 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. Under Smith's direction, offensive lineman Jade Tadvick earned First-Team All-Western Athletic Conference honors for the Vandals in 2006.
During the 1999-2002 seasons, Smith served as Erickson's assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Oregon State University. During his tenure coaching with the Beavers, Smith mentored Chris Gibson, who earned Third-Team All-America recognition by the Associated Press. At the time, Gibson was only the second offensive lineman in the previous 22 seasons to earn All-America honors for the Beavers. Gibson also earned First-Team All-Pac-10 honors in 2000, as did Aaron Koch before him in 1999, the first time Oregon State registered back-to-back First-Team All-Pac-10 offensive linemen since the 1972-73 seasons. Also, Smith's Beaver offensive linemen helped enable OSU tailbacks Steven Jackson and Ken Simonton to submit three of the top four single-season rushing totals in school history during the 1999, 2000 and 2002 seasons.
From 1995-1998, Smith enjoyed his first stay in the National Football League, coaching among Erickson's staff with the Seattle Seahawks.
From 1989 to 1994, Smith coached with Erickson at the University of Miami (Fla.), highlighted by two National Championship seasons (1989 and 1991). Three of Smith's offensive line pupils at Miami were drafted into the NFL, including Carlos Etheredge (1993), Leon Searcy (1992) and Mike Sullivan (1991).
Before joining Erickson as part of the Hurricanes' staff, Smith coached at Washington State University (1987, 1988), at the University of Wyoming (1985) and at the University of Idaho (1982-85). While at Washington State, Smith helped develop guard Mike Utley, who in 1988 earned First-Team All-America honors from the Associated Press, UPI, AFCA-Kodak, Scripps-Howard and from Football News. Utley earned First-Team All-Pac-10 honors that year as well.
Smith began his coaching career at the high school level, coaching at Buhl (Idaho) High School (1973-81) and at Sunset High School in Beaverton, Ore. (1969-72).
Smith graduated from the University of Idaho in 1969.