Frank Scelfo | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Southeastern Louisiana |
Current Conference: | Southland |
Current Record: | 37–31 |
Birth Date: | 9 February 1959 |
Birth Place: | Abbeville, Louisiana, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1977–1981 |
Player Team1: | Northeast Louisiana |
Coach Years1: | 1982–1983 |
Coach Team1: | Prairie View Academy (LA) |
Coach Years2: | 1984 |
Coach Team2: | Jesuit HS (LA) (DB) |
Coach Years3: | 1985–1986 |
Coach Team3: | River Oaks School (LA)[1] |
Coach Years4: | 1987 |
Coach Team4: | Vidor HS (TX) (DB) |
Coach Years5: | 1988 |
Coach Team5: | Orangefield HS (TX) (OC/QB) |
Coach Years6: | 1989–1991 |
Coach Team6: | Chapel Hill HS (TX) (OC/QB) |
Coach Years7: | 1992–1994 |
Coach Team7: | Kilgore HS (TX) (OC/QB/WR) |
Coach Years8: | 1995 |
Coach Team8: | North Shore HS (TX) (DB) |
Coach Years9: | 1996–1998 |
Coach Team9: | Tulane (TE/RC) |
Coach Years10: | 1999–2006 |
Coach Team10: | Tulane (OC/QB) |
Coach Years11: | 2007–2009 |
Coach Team11: | Louisiana Tech (OC/QB) |
Coach Years12: | 2010–2011 |
Coach Team12: | Arizona (QB) |
Coach Years13: | 2013–2014 |
Coach Team13: | Jacksonville Jaguars (QB) |
Coach Years14: | 2015 |
Coach Team14: | Jacksonville Jaguars (sr. off. asst.) |
Coach Years15: | 2016–2017 |
Coach Team15: | UTSA (OC/QB) |
Coach Years16: | 2018–present |
Coach Team16: | Southeastern Louisiana |
Overall Record: | 37–31 |
Tournament Record: | 3–3 (FCS Playoffs) |
Championships: | Southland (2022) |
Frank Jude Scelfo (born February 9, 1959) is an American football coach who currently is the head coach at Southeastern Louisiana University. Scelfo was the offensive coordinator for the UTSA Roadrunners football team of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) from 2016 to 2017. Scelfo has also served as the quarterbacks coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college baseball at Northeast Louisiana.
Scelfo started his coaching career coaching high school football in 1982. He coached mostly on offense, but did coach on defense a couple times. He coached in many different high schools in Louisiana and Texas.
Scelfo started coaching in college at Tulane University in 1996. He started out coaching tight ends before moving to quarterbacks and being an offensive coordinator. He coached four quarterbacks that played in the NFL. Those quarterbacks were Shaun King, Patrick Ramsey, J. P. Losman, and Lester Ricard.
Scelfo later coached at Louisiana Tech University, and the University of Arizona, where he coached Nick Foles and Matt Scott.
He was let go after two seasons at Arizona and he took a break from coaching in 2012.[2]
Scelfo signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars following the 2012 NFL season, becoming the team's quarterbacks coach on January 23, 2013.[3]
On January 28, 2015, it was reported Nathaniel Hackett would be the new quarterbacks coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars but Scelfo would remain on the staff. On February 5, 2015, it was reported Scelfo would be a senior offensive assistant.
Scelfo is married to Holly Kingery and the couple has two sons, Anthony and Jordan. Anthony played quarterback and baseball at Tulane and was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft, while Jordan played quarterback and baseball at the University of the Incarnate Word from 2012 to 2015. His brother, Chris Scelfo, serves as the offensive line coach for the Houston Cougars.