CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Back in 2000, Miami interim coach Larry Scott convinced himself that he was done with football. He was taking his degree from South Florida, going into the workforce and leaving the game behind for good.
His goal was simple.
“To get rich quick,” Scott said.
So he got a job as a child protective investigator with a state agency that oversees at-risk kids. He enjoyed it, but it wasn’t long before the lure of the game pulled him back — and now, after rising through the ranks of high school assistant, to low-level assistant in the college game, to a position now and now the interim boss at Miami he’s in charge of trying to save the 2015 Hurricanes’ season.