Tuesday, January 23, 2007

PC Football Names Offensive Staff

CLINTON, S.C. – New Presbyterian College football coach Bobby Bentley along with PC Director of Athletics Dr. William B. “Bee’ Carlton recently announced the naming of the 2007 PC Football offensive staff.

Along with Coach Bentley, who will serve as his own offensive coordinator, David Crane will serve as the running backs coach, Jeff Scott will coach the receivers and Scott Frazier will remain on staff at PC to coach the offensive line.

Crane comes to Presbyterian from Greenville High School where he served as the Assistant Football Coach and Offensive Coordinator for the past two seasons on Jim Sosbee’s staff. During his two seasons as the offensive coordinator with the Raiders, Crane’s offense averaged 42.5 points-per-game and 478.5 yards-per-game.

The Raiders were 18-6 during his two seasons and were ranked as high as No. 1 in the Palmetto state in AAA in 2006. Greenville concluded the 2005 season as the Region I-AAA champions and 2006 as the runner-up in the region.

Crane’s 2005 offense was one of the most potent in South Carolina high school history. The seventh-highest scoring offense in the history of high school football (all classifications) in the state, Crane’s 2005 Raider offense broke numerous school and individual offensive records. Greenville placed 613 points on the scoreboard in 13 games that year to average 47.2 points-per-game.

Prior to his stint at Greenville, Crane, a 1997 graduate of Clemson University, served as an assistant football coach at Byrnes under Bentley, working with the running backs. In Crane’s two seasons with the Rebels the squad won two state championships and were ranked in the top 20 in the nation.

Scott comes to the Blue Hose football program after a very successful coaching stint as the head coach at Blythewood High School in the Columbia, S.C. area.

Scott led the inaugural Blythewood football team to the South Carolina AAA state championship in 2006, marking the first time that a first year varsity squad in the state had accomplished the feat.

Individually, the state championship helped Scott to become one of only two head coaches in the history of South Carolina high school football to lead his football team to a state crown in his first season at the helm. His efforts did not go unnoticed by the public as he was honored as the statewide Coach of the Year by the South Carolina Sports Report and as the Region 3-AAA Coach of the Year.

The son of former University of South Carolina head coach and current Clemson offensive line coach Brad Scott, Jeff Scott played his intercollegiate football at Clemson where he was awarded the Clemson University Outstanding Senior Male Scholarship Award in 2002. A cum laude graduate of Clemson, Scott was the recipient of the highest GPA award for Clemson Football from 1999-2002.

Frazier will stay on work with the offensive line and serve as the program’s recruiting coordinator.

In his first season with the Blue Hose in 2005, Frazier coached the 2006 South Carolina Male Athlete-of-the-Year in Marcus Brisbone, who as an offensive guard for PC averaged over 94% grade-outs per game in the 2005 season. The Sumter, S.C. native did not allow a sack or a pressure the entire year, helping him to earn numerous All-American accolades.

Frazier came to PC from Western Carolina University. He joined the Catamount staff in the spring of 2004, serving as the team’s recruiting coordinator and coaching running backs and tight ends.

During the fall of 2004, Frazier coached the defensive line at his alma mater, Williams High School in Burlington, N.C. Prior to joining the WCU staff, he spent the 2003 season on the Elon University Phoenix football staff, serving as the team’s defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator.

Before joining the Elon staff, he was a graduate assistant coach at the University of North Carolina for three years (2001-03), spending the 2001 and ’02 seasons as the Tar Heels’ assistant offensive line coach. He also served as a defensive graduate assistant for the Tar Heels in 1996. During his four years at UNC, the Tar Heels won the 1996 Gator Bowl and the 2001 Peach Bowl.

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