Football
Sep 13 (Sat)
7:45 pm MT
- Title:
- Offensive Assistant
- Email:
- brett.skene@afacademy.af.edu
Brett Skene enters his fourth season as the specialist coach and assistant offensive line coach. He served as an offensive assistant in 2021. This season is his seventh overall with Air Force football. He served as an offensive analyst prior from 2018-20.
The kicking game has flourished with kicker Matthew Dapore, a Lou Groza Award National Placekicker of the Year semifinalist, and punter Luke Freer, who was a second-team all-Mountain West selection in 2024. Freer broke the school record set in 1985 for punting average with a 47.5 mark. He would have ranked fourth nationally, but lacked enough attempts to qualify. Dapore finished his career as Air Force’s all-time leading scorer with 270 points.
His work with the offensive line has been impressive. The Falcons finished second nationally in rushing in 2023 with a 281.5 average. The Falcons averaged 326.7 yards per game in 2022 to win a third straight national rushing title. The unit was a semifinalist for the Joe Moore Award, given annually to the top unit in the nation. The offensive line went wire-to-wire leading the nation setting a record of 15 consecutive weeks in the top spot. Air Force also led the nation in time of possession for the second straight year with a 36:33 mark.
Skene helped the Air Force offense to averages of 31.0 points per game, which ranked fourth in the conference, and 423.5 total yards, which was also fourth in 2021. The Falcons won their second straight national rushing title with a 327.7 average to rank as the only team in the nation to average 300-plus for a second consecutive year.
Skene came to the football program full time after serving as an instructor of management at the Academy from 2018. Prior to that, he served as an acquisition manager at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., from 2015-18. He began his military career as an acquisition manager at Patrick AFB, Fla., from 2011-15.
Skene is a 2011 graduate of the Academy where he earned his degree in management. He played football from 2007-08, than served as a student assistant from 2009-10. He later earned his master’s in business administration (MBA) from Louisiana-Monroe in 2014.
His post-graduate coaching career began at Chadwick School in Peninsula Palos Verdes, Calif., as an offensive coordinator from 2016-18 while stationed in California.
Skene is a native of Littleton, Colo., and a 2007 graduate of Mullen High School.
