There is probably no one playing or coaching in this week’s Clemson-South Carolina game that has a better perspective on the rivalry than Jeff Scott.
As a teenager, he grew up around in the rivalry. His dad, Brad Scott, became the Gamecocks’ head coach in 1994. Over the next five years, Jeff was immersed into the rivalry from the South Carolina perspective.
When his father was let go in Columbia following the 1998 season, Jeff found himself at Clemson after his dad took a job as an assistant coach under Tommy Bowden. Two years later, he was holding the ball for Aaron Hunt on a game-winning field goal to beat the Gamecocks in one of Clemson’s most dramatic wins in the series.