When he got the job to be South Florida’s new head football coach last month, Jeff Scott knew he wanted to bring at least one person who worked with him on the Clemson staff.
Scott singled out former Clemson great Da’Quan Bowers, who returned to Clemson in the summer of 2018, following a seven-year career in the NFL to finish his degree, which he earned in December. Bowers, who has always shown an interest in coaching, helped on Dabo Swinney’s staff as a student coach the last two seasons.
“Obviously, watching him as a player, his leadership, his work ethic while he was at Clemson, and then to come back as part of the Tiger trust two years ago, to finish his degree,” said Scott on why he hired Bowers to be his defensive line coach at South Florida.