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Broncos OC Rich Scangarello took 'an unheard of' path from NFL to small schools and back

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- In 2010, Aaron Pelch had just been named head football coach at Millsaps College, a school of 960 students in Jackson, Mississippi, that plays Division III football on fall weekends. Pelch had a career's worth of names for potential assistants on his first staff, but he knew who would get his first call, because, he says, he knew where the guy would eventually end up.

And with that he dialed Rich Scangarello.

"Easily the second-best recruiting job I've ever done, and the first was my wife," Pelch said. "The second was him. I did pretty good, right?