USF fires head coach with SMU headed to town

[PonyPride]

From ESPN.com:

South Florida fires coach Jeff Scott after loss to Temple
Blake Baumgartner
ESPN Staff Writer

South Florida fired football coach Jeff Scott on Sunday, the school announced.

The Bulls (1-8, 0-5 American) are coming off a 54-28 loss at Temple on Saturday, their seventh straight defeat.

Special teams coach Daniel Da Prato will finish the rest of the season as interim coach.

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[Hilltopper]

How do you feel if you're the special teams coach, you get called in to be the interim head coach, and you realize you have to prepare for a team that just put up 77.

Interesting approach to on-the-job training.

[mrydel]

Well Houston had to return 12 kickoffs and 1 punt plus extra point defense 11 times. Sounds like the special teams coach may be who they need.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Makes me nervous since we just put a bunch of kickoff coverage and extra points on film.

[bubba pony]

Senior Offensive Analyst is Chad Morris. let's see what USF comes up with

[ponyte]

Oh crude. The last time we had a near winless team fired their coach before we played them, they ended with a win an and a 3rd string TE makes it as a Heisman candidate.

[peruna81]

Oh crude. The last time we had a near winless team fired their coach before we played them, they ended with a win an and a 3rd string TE makes it as a Heisman candidate.

Don't worry...USF's starting QB is going to play.

We only collapse when backup QUARTERBACKS play...ahem...