The hire didn’t make the headlines that Miami’s most recent acquisition did – that former Miami player and FIU head coach who popped in for a month before taking his talents to Tuscaloosa – but that doesn’t mean UM didn’t get a good one in Larry Scott, who officially joined the staff.
Below is the official release, but in a nutshell, Scott is thirty-five years old with eleven years coaching experience. He spent the past nine season at South Florida, where he played offensive tackle from 1997 to 1999.
Scott was slated to be an offensive assistant this year after coaching running backs in 2012 and tight ends in 2007-2008 and again from 2010-2011. (In 2009 he coached the Bulls’ offensive line.) His first two seasons with USF he was the Director of High School Relations and a graduate assistant.
To Scott’s credit, he was a staple with the Bulls staff despite three different head coaches over a five-year span. Scott spent six seasons under Jim Leavitt, the past three under Skip Holtz and was retained by Willie Taggart, who came aboard last December.
Seen as a valuable recruiter – especially in Dade and Broward counties – USF’s staff always made room for Scott and saw him as a valuable piece to its recruiting puzzle. His loss is being regarded as a large one amongst the Bulls’ community, both fans and coaches alike.
Al Golden has to reel one in at the final hour due to a recent departure on his staff and from all accounts, Scott fits the profile regarding a young up-and-comer and a solid recruiter with strong South Florida ties. Welcome to The U family, Coach Scott.
UM’s Official Release : “Florida native and former USF assistant coach Larry Scott has been named the Miami Hurricanes’ new tight ends coach, head coach Al Golden announced Friday.
Scott, a native of Sebring, Fla., had spent the previous eight seasons at USF, beginning in 2005 as the director of high school relations. In 2006, he moved to a graduate assistant role before coaching tight ends in 2007-08 and again in 2010-11. Between tight end coaching stints, he coached the offensive line in 2009. Last season, he coached the running backs and became an offensive assistant in 2013.
During his second stint as the Bulls’ TE coach, Scott and his group helped USF to its fifth-straight eight-win season, making it one of only 15 programs nationally and one of just 10 in BCS leagues to accomplish the feat.
Scott’s biggest impact on USF came in recruiting within Miami-Dade and Broward counties. USF’s 2008 class was considered to be among the best in program history until the Bulls’ 2009 class was ranked No. 21 nationally.
His coaching career began in the high school ranks as the run game coordinator and offensive line coach at Tampa’s Wharton HS from May 2001-August 2001. From there, he was the offensive coordinator and O-line coach from 2001-03 at Freedom HS before returning to his prep alma mater – Sebring HS – in 2004 as an exceptional education teacher and the co-offensive coordinator.
Scott was a three-year letterwinner (1997-99) as an offensive tackle for USF and was a member of the first recruiting class that began practicing in 1996, the year before the first USF Football game. He arrived at USF after a successful three-sport career at Sebring High School, where he was a four-year letterwinner for the football team and also earned a pair of varsity letters in baseball as a freshman and sophomore and in wrestling as a junior and senior.
A 2000 graduate from USF with a bachelor’s degree in communications, Scott and his wife Shakiera have three children: sons, Larry and Jalen, and daughter Jurnee.”