After retiring from player, Bright later coached the
Geelong Falcons to the inaugural premiership in the
VSFL Under-18 competition (later
TAC Cup) in 1992. He would later be an assistant coach at Geelong, coaching the club's reserves team for three seasons, until he departed the club at the end of the
1998 AFL season to take up a role as an assistant coach at the
Fremantle Dockers with former team mate
Damian Drum. He would finish his coaching career in 2014, stepping down as coach of Geelong West-St Peters. ==Family==