The 39-year-old coach got his first taste of competitive football in Florida. He watched his father’s coaching career blossom, first as a high school coach and eventually as an assistant at Florida State.
Those threads, woven into Scott’s coaching DNA, eventually pulled him back to the Sunshine State for his first head coaching job leading the Bulls.
“This is coming full circle, coming back to our home state,” said Scott, who grew up a little more than an hour away from Tampa in Arcadia.
Scott inherits a USF program three years removed from back-to-back double-digit win seasons for the first time in school history.