With Gary Andersen's departure as Oregon State football coach, the Beavers on Monday named Cory Hall as the interim coach while athletic director Scott Barnes runs a national search for a permanent replacement.

Cory Hall

Here are some things to know about Hall, who had been serving as the Beavers' cornerbacks coach since January 2016.

* Hall briefly had served as a graduate assistant on the Beavers staff in 2015, then worked at Weber State as secondary coach before his return to Corvallis. He had joined Andersen's staff at Wisconsin in 2014, then followed him to OSU.

* A native of Bakersfield, California, Hall was a defensive back at Fresno State from 1995-98.

* He played in the NFL for six seasons, for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1999-2002 and for the Atlanta Falcons from 2003-04.

* Hall describes his coaching style as a "quiet storm" -- mild-mannered in the meeting room but fiery on the field. He preaches a mindset of being aggressive, tough, physical, intelligent and professional. Ultimately, Hall just aims to coach the way he wanted to be coached. "That's me being a mentor," Hall told The Oregonian/OregonLive in 2016. "And that's being hard when I have to be."

* I never wanted to be belittled," Hall said in 2016. "I always wanted to be coached hard, and I always wanted to be coached from experience."

* "He's unbelievable at dealing with the kids," Andersen said of Hall in 2016. "He does this because it matters to him deeply to change kids' lives."

* He was a student assistant coach at Washington State in 2006, and from 2008-13 he served as director of football, and then head coach, at Clovis High School in California.

* His biggest off-the-field influences? "My mother and my grandmother. My grandmother was the backbone of the family, and she's the reason why I was even able to play. Because when I said I wanted to play, my mom said no, and (my grandmother) said, 'He's gonna play football.' She would always say, 'The only thing I want you to do when you go pro is buy me a plane ticket to your game.'"

* "I have wanted to coach since the sixth grade," Hall said in 2016. "I had a sixth-grade English teacher, his name was Dan Pokett, he really took to me and encouraged me as far as being a competitor and playing football. He always was one of the few people that would tell me how great I was, that someday I was gonna be big things."

* His first impression of his position group in 2016? "They're good kids. They're hungry and they want to win. When you go through a transition like they did, one coaching staff to the new, I can be sensitive to it. I've gone through a slew of coaching changes, so I can identify and relate to those kids. It's kind of lightly traumatic, because you don't know where you stand in the eyes of a coach, you don't know if they're gonna bring somebody in to try to replace you or 'Am I gonna keep my scholarship?' You don't really know these things. They want to work. They're willing to work. And most importantly, they're good kids."

-- From The Oregonian/OregonLive archives