San Diego Chargers Coach Credits Former ENMU Coach Jack Scott

By David Stevens, Clovis News-Journal

San Diego Chargers running backs’ coach Matt Simon credits a former Eastern New Mexico University head coach for his career in the NFL. In an interview with Mike Scandura of NFLHS. com, Simon said he planned on becoming an attorney after his playing days at Eastern were over in 1976. Coach Jack Scott changed his mind.

“Jack was the most instrumental person when it came to my getting into coaching,” Simon told Scandura in 2004. “For whatever reason, God put him in my life and he’s the one who grew the passion I had for the game, and encouraged me to coach. “I wouldn’t be coaching if it wasn’t for him. He kept pulling me into the teaching aspect of the game, and I developed a true love for it. I was fortunate as a college player in that I had a real personal relationship with my head coach, which not everybody does.”

Simon earned four letters as a linebacker at Eastern. He’s a member of the ENMU Hall of Honor.