Jeff Scurran is one of the nation’s most recognizable high school football coaches. During his 34 years of coaching, Scurran has worked as a clinician, a motivational speaker, a consultant for business, schools, and athletic teams, and been a clinician for Bigger, Faster, Stronger, the nation’s leader in athletic development.

Coach Scurran’s current record as a high school and college coach is 243-77. For the 2007 football season, he was selected by the Arizona Republic, Arizona’s largest newspaper, as the state’s “Large School Coach-of-the-Year for taking the Santa Rita Eagles in Tucson from 0-10 to 11-2, the biggest turnaround in state history. In 2008, the Eagles went all the way to the state title game.

This Spring (2008), he will coach Team USA vs. the Japanese U19 All Stars in Tokyo. With a team recruited from all over the US, but with only one week of practice, his group of “American Football Ambassadors” will attempt to defeat a very well coached and disciplined Japanese team on national television in the host country.

Scurran’s teams at Sabino High School (1989-1999) made 5 appearances in the State Championship game in 10 years, making 9 out of 10 state semi-final appearances. This record was at a school that held the state’s record for consecutive losses and won barely 30% of its total games. He left Sabino with 46 consecutive league wins.

Coach Scurran was then asked to start the football program at Pima College in Tucson, a school that had every other sport, but never a football team. With no scholarships, mostly first-year players, and resources only from funds raised by Scurran himself, they defied all predictions and logic by upsetting the defending national champions, Glendale College in the school’s inaugural football game.