Eric “E” Scott enters his fourth season with the Wolf Pack under fourth-year head coach Jay Norvell and will coach the team’s wide receivers in 2020.
Scott helped Romeo Doubs and Elijah Cooks post big seasons for the Wolf Pack in 2019, as Doubs was named as an All-Mountain West honorable mention while Cooks set bowl records in a breakout campaign. Nevada put up 3,246 yards through the air, with 1,575 of those coming from Doubs and Cooks. Doubs hauled in 44 receptions for 649 yards and four touchdowns on the year, including a monster 11 reception, 167 yard performance against New Mexico. Cooks was scorching hot at the end of the season, totaling 26 receptions, 348 yards and a touchdown in the final two games of the year combined. In the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, he set a new Nevada bowl record with 197 yards receiving and his 14 catches tied the most in a bowl game in program history. In total, Scott’s receiving corps hauled in 14 touchdowns with 10.47 yards per reception and 249.7 yards receiving per game.
For the 2018 season, Scott began coaching the entire receiving corps as his first year he worked specifically with the Pack’s outside receivers. He had a lot of weapons to work with in 2018, including All-Mountain West honorable mention selection McLane Mannix. Mannix led the team with 875 receiving yards and seven touchdown receptions, both of which ranked in the top 10 in the Mountain West. All together Scott had four receivers haul in 20 catches or more in 2018, led by Kaleb Fossum’s 70. Fossum’s 5.4 receptions per game ranked in the top five in the conference and was a top 50 mark nationally. Additionally, between Mannix, Fossum and Romeo Doubs, Nevada receivers produced six 100-yard receiving performances.
In his first season with the Wolf Pack, Scott turned the team’s outside receivers into deep threats under the Air Raid offensive scheme. He developed former receiver Wyatt Demps into an All-Mountain West second team selection and helped Brendan O’Leary-Orange into a breakout campaign. Demps posted one of the finest seasons by a Pack receiver in recent memory, leading the conference with 11 receiving touchdowns and finishing second in receptions with 67. Demps nearly notched a 1,000-yard receiving season as well, totaling 908 yards which ranked in the top 45 in the nation. O’Leary-Orange came on strong midway through the 2017 season, becoming one of quarterback Ty Gangi's top receiving targets. He notched two 100-yard receiving performances, including a 214-yard game on 11 catches at San Diego State where he hauled in three touchdown receptions. For the year, O'Leary-Orange ranked third on the team with 618 receiving yards on 39 catches.
Scott has nearly 20 years of coaching experience in high school and college, specializing in the greater Los Angeles area. In 2016 Scott coached Los Angeles High School, which hadn’t won a title since 1965, to its second CIF City Section Championship in three years. Under Scott’s direction, Los Angeles High School made three consecutive CIF City Section Championship appearances from 2014-16. He was voted the CIF Los Angeles City Section Coach of the Year in 2014 and 2016 by his peers.
Prior to his three-year tenure with the Los Angeles High Romans, Scott served as the head coach at Compton Centennial High School. In 2010, after just two years as the head coach, he led the Apaches to a Pioneer League Championship, their first title win in over 40 years. In addition to being known throughout the city of Los Angeles for turning struggling programs around, Scott is highly revered within the community for mentoring young men and helping them get into college. He has served as a head coach for over 10 years in the Snoop Youth Football League, enabling him to not only identify, nurture and shape many of the most talented players to emerge out of Los Angeles, but also to help over 200 players secure NCAA Division I football scholarships.
In 2007 he served as the wide receivers coach at UCLA, under then offensive coordinator Jay Norvell, and worked as an intern for the Bruins for the 2006 season. Scott won his first CIF City Section Championship in 2005 as the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Crenshaw High School, where he coached for seven seasons.
Scott played college football at UCLA and earned three letters at wide receiver after transferring from Northwestern. He made 27 career receptions (14 in 1995) for 372 yards as a Bruin. In his final year, he averaged 10.7 yards on 23 punt returns. Scott earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UCLA in 1997 and is completing a master’s in social entrepreneurship through USC’s Marshall School of Business.
The File on Eric Scott
Born: Feb. 25, 1975
Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Education: Bachelor's, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
Coaching Experience
2018-present: Wide Receivers, Nevada
2017: Outside Receivers, Nevada
2014-16: Head Coach, Los Angeles HS
2008-13: Head Coach, Compton Centennial HS
2007: Wide Receivers, UCLA
2006: Football Intern, UCLA
1999-2005: Asst. Coach/Off. Coordinator, Crenshaw HS
Playing Experience
Northwestern: Wide Receiver (1993)
UCLA: Wide Receiver (1995-97)
