Brad Scott Position: Associate Head Coach/Offensive Guards & Centers

Brad Scott has the ability to coach his players to success, both on and off the field. In the last two seasons, he has coached two First-Team All-ACC players each year, the first time that has happened since 1990,91. Off the field, he has coached 12 scholarship players through the end of their eligibility in the last four years, and 10 have graduated. The other two will earn their degrees by the end of this year.

Clemson has led the ACC in scoring offense each of the last two years and finished first or second in rushing offense both years. That includes 2006, when Clemson was fifth in the nation in rushing behind an offensive line that featured First-Team All-ACC picks Barry Richardson and Nathan Bennett along with second-team pick Dustin Fry. Fry was a member of the Saint Louis Rams in 2007.

The recent success (three straight years of at least eight wins and two final top-25 rankings in the last three years) has only continued the level of accomplishment Clemson has realized since Tommy Bowden came to Clemson in 1999. One of his first hires was Scott, who had been South Carolina's head coach (1994-98). He was also well aware of his aptitude as a coach after serving for his father, Bobby Bowden at Florida State, during the Seminoles' run of top-four final rankings from 1987-93.

In Scott's tenure at Clemson, he has served on the offensive side of the ball every year, five years as tight ends coach (including three as offensive coordinator) and four years as offensive line coach. He has been the assistant or associate head coach during his entire stay in Tigertown.

Clemson has recorded eight of its top-12 total offensive seasons in history, including five of the six teams that have gained at least 5,000 yards, during Scott's Clemson career. Four of the top-five yards-per-play figures and six of the top-seven passing-yardage seasons have been recorded during his time on the Clemson offense coaching staff.

Those stats have translated to wins. Clemson has been bowl eligible all nine years, leading to 69 wins. Clemson has finished in the top 25 in four of the last eight years and has won eight games each of the last three years, the first time the program has done that in consecutive years since 1989-91.

Scott helped Richardson and Chris McDuffie to All-America status in 2007, the first time in history that Clemson had two All-America offensive linemen in one season. They combined to help Clemson have the most-balanced offense in the ACC in 2007. Clemson finished second in rushing offense and third in passing offense, the only conference team to finish in the top five in both categories.

Scott served as offensive coordinator from 2001-03, as Clemson produced three of the top-six years in school history in total offense in that time. The 2003 team gained 5,467 yards, most in Tiger history. Records were also established for passing yards, completions, and touchdown passes.

Scott came to Clemson in 1999 after serving as head coach at South Carolina for five seasons. In his first year as head coach in 1994, he led the Gamecocks to their first bowl win with a 24-21 win over West Virginia in the Carquest Bowl. He served as head coach of the Gamecocks through 1998. Two of his wins during that time were at Clemson.

Before going to Columbia, Scott was on Bobby Bowden's staff at Florida State for 11 years. The Seminoles were 10-0-1 in bowl games with him on the staff. Scott is a veteran of 20 bowl games as a coach, and his teams are 14-5-1 in those 20 games.

Scott joined the Seminole staff in 1983, and he spent his last four years as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. Those four years included the 1993 National Championship season and a record-setting offense that featured Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward. The Seminoles posted a 44-6 (.880) record with Scott as offensive coordinator, the most wins by a Division I-A program during that time.

Scott served as the Seminole recruiting coordinator for five years, as he built a reputation as a top-notch recruiter.

Prior to joining the Seminole program, he was the head football coach and athletic director at DeSoto High School in Arcadia, FL (1982), where he was conference coach-of-the-year. Scott spent 1981 as a graduate assistant at The Citadel. Before arriving there, he was an assistant at Hardee Senior High in Wauchula, FL for one season (1980).

Scott began his college days at Missouri-Rolla, where he was a two-year starter on the offensive line. He is a 1979 graduate of South Florida, where he received a degree in science education. He received a master of science degree in athletic administration from Florida State in 1984 as well.

Scott and his wife Daryle have two sons, Jeff (27) and John (24). Jeff graduated from Clemson in 2003 and coached Blythewood (SC) High to a state title in his first year with the program. He was an assistant coach at Presbyterian in 2007 and is a graduate assistant on the 2008 Tiger staff. He was also a Tiger letterman and played three bowl games (2000-02). Jeff married his wife, the former Sara McDaniel, shortly after graduating from Clemson. John graduated from Harvard in 2006 and is in his third year of medical school at Vanderbilt. He was a letterman in football and track at Harvard.