The 2017 season was the first for Bodie Reeder as EWU’s quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, having joined the Eagles on Feb. 1, 2017, after a three-year stint at Oklahoma State.
In 2017, Eastern was eighth in FCS in passing (320.5 per game) and fifth in total offense (476.7), and was also 14th in scoring (34.5) and 11th in third down conversions (46.1 percent). Quarterback Gage Gubrud earned second team All-Big Sky Conference honors, and helped EWU set a school record for passing yards with 545 in a 48-41 win at Montana. Gubrud had individual records of 549 yards passing and 560 yards of total offense.
Reeder spent the 2014-16 seasons working with quarterbacks at OSU and working in offensive quality control. The former player and 2010 graduate of Eastern Illinois University previously was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Wisconsin-Stout from 2011-14. He spent two seasons as an assistant at his alma mater.
Oklahoma State played in bowl games all three of Reeder’s seasons there, including victories in the 2016 Alamo Bowl (defeated Colorado 38-8) and the 2014 Cactus Bowl (defeated Washington 30-22). The Cowboys also played in the Sugar Bowl following the 2015 season (lost to Mississippi 48-20).
The 2016 OSU team was 10-3 and second in the Big 12 with a 7-2 record. The Cowboys were ninth in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision in passing offense (323.9 per game) and 17th in scoring (38.6 per game).
Most recently, Reeder helped coach OSU quarterback Mason Rudolph, who was ranked seventh nationally in passing in 2016 with an average of 314.7 yards per game. He completed 63 percent of his passes for a total of 4,091 yards, 28 touchdowns and just four interceptions.
The previous season, Rudolph was 19th in FBS (290.0 per game), finishing with 3,770 yards, 21 touchdowns and nine interceptions. Quarterback J.W. Walsh accounted for 24 touchdowns (11 rushing, 13 passing) in 2015.
Reeder was an assistant at Wisconsin-Stout for four seasons, and was offensive coordinator his last three. Besides coaching the team’s quarterbacks, he also taught kinesiology at the school. Among the players he coached was all-conference quarterback Hank Kujak.
He coached in 2010 and 2011 as a graduate assistant at Eastern Illinois and worked with defensive backs.
Reeder began his college career at Wyoming, then transferred to Eastern Illinois where he had 3,741 passing yards, 23 touchdown passes, and 356 career completions in 30 games. The Panthers advanced to the NCAA playoffs in 2007 and 2009.
Reeder is a 2004 graduate of Mahomet-Seymour High School, and in his career passed for 6,582 yards and 67 touchdowns. As a freshman starter, Reeder and M-S finished 4-5. But the table was set for three straight playoff appearance as the Bulldogs compiled records of 6-4, 7-3 and 11-1 in his final three seasons.
