1. Scott Shafer was born on January 6,1967 and is an American football coach and former player.
26 Facts About Scott Shafer
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Scott Shafer has served as the defensive coordinator for the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders.
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Scott Shafer was a high school and college quarterback in Ohio at Riverside High School, Ohio University, and Baldwin-Wallace College.
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Scott Shafer has held various positions including defensive coordinator, assistant head coach, and secondary coach at major universities such as the University of Rhode Island, Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois, Western Michigan University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and Syracuse University.
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Scott Shafer was officially named the head coach of Syracuse on January 9,2013.
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Scott Shafer's father died at age 53 after coaching 28 years at Riverside High.
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Scott Shafer attended Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, where he received his bachelor's degree in education in 1990.
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Scott Shafer went on to study at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he was awarded a master's degree in education in 1993.
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Scott Shafer went on to play quarterback at Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference.
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Scott Shafer finished the 1989 season with a 139.39 passing efficiency rating, best in the Ohio Athletic Conference.
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Scott Shafer has held numerous positions within Division I colleges, including the University of Rhode Island, Northern Illinois University, the University of Illinois, Western Michigan University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Syracuse University.
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Scott Shafer began his coaching career as a graduate assistant to Bill Mallory at Indiana University from 1991 to 1992.
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Scott Shafer earned his master's degree from in Education from the university while coaching football.
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Scott Shafer spent eight years as an assistant coach at Northern Illinois University, the first four as secondary coach, before adding defensive coordinator duties to his resume in 2000.
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Scott Shafer was hired as the secondary coach at the University of Illinois in 2004, after four straight winning seasons with Northern Illinois.
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Scott Shafer was a nominee for the Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the nation.
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Scott Shafer coached two players who won the MAC West Division Player of the Week.
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Scott Shafer was hired as the defensive coordinator for the University of Michigan by new head coach Rich Rodriguez in 2008.
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Coach Rich Rodriguez announced on December 16,2008, that Scott Shafer had resigned after one season as defensive coordinator.
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Scott Shafer was hired by Syracuse University head football coach Doug Marrone in 2009.
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Scott Shafer was hired as the defensive coordinator for a team that allowed 32.7 points per game in the 2008 season.
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Scott Shafer was officially named the head coach of the Orange on January 9,2013, after Doug Marrone left to become the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
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On January 20,2017, Scott Shafer was hired by Middle Tennessee State to serve as defensive coordinator under head coach Rick Stockstill.
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Scott Shafer said his father was his greatest coaching role model.
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Scott Shafer is the author of eight instructional videos that are distributed by Coaches Choice and teach lessons such as tackling, press coverage, and different defense packages.
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Scott Shafer's brother John is an assistant football coach, and head track and field coach at Cuyahoga Heights High School.