Bio

The all-time ECC leader in career tackles, Brian Smith played two seasons for the Warriors. He recorded 135 tackles in his freshman season and then followed that with 121 as a sophomore in nine games. Both marks rank third and sixth in ECC history respectively. His 256 total tackles rank as the most in a career, breaking the old record that stood for 11 years by fellow inductee Donovan Gallatin (217) by nearly 50 tackles. He was named First Team All-Mission Conference both years and earned All-American recognition in 2002. Smith would go on to attend the University of Minnesota where he played two seasons and recorded 48 career tackles in 24 career games.  Smith was named to the ECC Football 2000s All-Decade Team and was also named one the ECC Top 75 Athletes at the school’s 75th anniversary celebration in 2022.