Football
- Title:
- Assistant Director of Player Personnel
- Email:
- Darrick.Yray@oregonstate.edu
- Phone:
- 737-2614
Darrick Yray (pronounced Ray) serves as the program’s Director of Player Personnel. He previously held roles at OSU that included Director of Recruiting Operations and Pro Liaison, Assistant Director of Player Personnel and Coordinator of On-Campus Recruiting.
Yray is responsible for managing all aspects of Oregon State’s recruiting operation, including the identification process of potential student-athletes and the scheduling of official and unofficial visits to campus. He also serves as the Pro Liaison.
Yray came to Corvallis after spending three seasons at Fresno State as the assistant director of football operations. While with the Bulldogs he assisted with recruiting, team travel, player personnel, served as the Pro Liaison and other duties within the daily football and recruiting operations.
He spent the 2008-2011 serving as the offensive assistant working under the Bulldogs’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. In those roles he helped prepare scouting reports, efficiency and tendency charts, film breakdown, assisted with academics, and coordinated scout teams.
In 2010, Yray was a guest coach with the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders franchise, working with special teams and the defensive line.
A native of Linden, Calif., Yray graduated from Fresno State in 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications. He received his Master’s Degree in Kinesiology in 2013. Yray was married to Minda McCullough in July of 2014.
YRAY’S PROFILE
Assignment: Director of Recruiting Operations/Pro Liaison
Year at OSU: 5th
Hometown: Linden, CA
Education: B.A. in Communications from Fresno State (2011); M.A. in Kinesiology Sports Administration from Fresno State (2013)
Family: Wife, Minda
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director of Recruiting Operations – Oregon State, 2018-Present
Coordinator of On Campus Recruiting – Oregon State, 2016-2017
Assistant Director of Player Personnel - Oregon State, 2015-2016
Assistant Director of Football Operations – Fresno State , 2011-2014
Offensive Assistant – Fresno State, 2008-2011
DIVISION & CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
2014 Western Division Champion (Fresno State)
2013 Mountain West Champion/ Western Division Champion (Fresno State)
2012 Mountain West Champion (Fresno State)
BOWL GAMES
2014 Hawaii Bowl (Fresno State)
2013 Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl (Fresno State)
2012 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl (Fresno State)
2010 Humanitarian Bowl (Fresno State)
2009 New Mexico Bowl (Fresno State)
2008 New Mexico Bowl (Fresno State)
