Scott Smouse is entering his third season as Offensive Coordinator/QB Coach for the Belhaven football program.
Before coming to BU, he spent one season as the Offensive Line Coach at Itawamba Community College.
Before ICC, he spent the previous six seasons as offensive line coach at Furman University and four as running game coordinator.
In 2013 Smouse directed an offensive front that featured consensus All-American tackle Dakota Dozier, a 2014 fourth round draft selection of the New York Jets who helped pave the way for Furman’s third straight 1,000-yard rusher in Hank McCloud (1,092 yds., 5 TDs) en route to the league regular season championship.
Prior to joining the Paladin program, he spent three years at Jacksonville State, where he coached a pair of All-Americans and seven All-Ohio Valley Conference performers who played a key role in the Gamecocks posting a 25-9 overall record. In 2010 JSU went 9-3 and earned its first NCAA FCS playoff berth since 2004.
Prior to his time at Jacksonville State, he coached the offensive line coach at East Gadsden (Fla.) High School in 2007. Smouse spent two seasons at East Mississippi Community College. He coached for two seasons at LSU, where he served as a graduate assistant working primarily with the offensive linemen, and was part of the Tigers’ 2003 national championship team and 2004 Capital One Bowl. Before going to LSU he worked two seasons at Newberry (S.C.) College as offensive line and tight ends coach.
A Greensboro, N.C., native, Smouse earned a degree in history and secondary education in 2000 from Appalachian State. As a student assistant coach with the offensive line, he helped guide the Mountaineers to SoCon titles in both 1995 & ‘99.
He spent one season as a defensive graduate assistant at Duke before accepting his first full-time coaching job at Newberry.
Smouse earned a master’s degree in kinesiology from LSU in 2005.
He and his wife, Carey, have two sons: Tyler and Harrison.
