THE BGA FILE

COACHING RESUME

2017: Wake Forest (Recruiting Assistant)
2018-19: Wake Forest (Graduate Assistant)
2020: Georgia (Defensive Analyst)
2021-22: Texas A&M (Defensive Analyst)
2023: Texas A&M (Secondary Coach)
2024: Texas A&M (Senior Defensive Analyst)
2025-: Texas A&M (Nickels)

POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE

2017: Wake Forest (Belk)
2018: Wake Forest (Birmingham)
2019: Wake Forest (Pinstripe)
2020: Georgia (Sugar)
2021: Texas A&M (Gator)
2023: Texas A&M (Texas)
2024: Texas A&M (Las Vegas)

Bryant Gross-Armiento was named nickels coach prior to the 2025 season, after serving as a senior defensive analyst in 2024 on Mike Elko’s staff. Gross-Armiento previously served as a secondary coach in 2023 and a defensive analyst in 2022 and 2021 at Texas A&M.

Gross-Armiento, better known as “BGA”, spent the 2020 season working with the secondary staff at Georgia after a three-year stint at Wake Forest, two seasons as a graduate assistant and one as a recruiting assistant.

He earned his degree from Wake Forest in May 2017 as a communication major with a minor in economics and sociology.

Gross-Armiento began his football playing career at Rutgers before transferring to Wake Forest in 2014. However, a series of injuries prevented him from getting on the field with the Deacons. Gross-Armiento was the No. 71-rated safety in the nation by ESPN.com in 20213 coming out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s American Heritage High School. He helped the Patriots to a 9-2 record as a senior and a berth in the Florida Class 5A playoffs.