Scot Loeffler is leaving Bowling Green to take a lesser role with the Philadelphia Eagles. While it is hard to compare apples to oranges, the job title reflects a major demotion.
This kind of move reflects the current reality in college football and continues to become more common.
Loeffler is only 50 years old. He played quarterback at Michigan in the mid-to-late 1990s and began his college football coaching career with his alma mater right after graduation. Since then, the Ohio-native has climbed his way up the coaching ladder with stops at Central Michigan, Florida, Temple, Auburn, Virgnia Tech, Boston College and then ultimately Bowling Green. The Falcons hired him as head coach in 2019. His time with the program has been an overwhelming success.
A team that won only two games in 2017 reached three-straight bowl games from 2022-2024 and finished with winning records in each of the last two years for the first time since 2015. Bowling Green nearly pulled upset wins over Penn State and Texas A&M in back-to-back weeks last season!
Even though Loeffler found ways to win at a perennial basement-dweller, he apparently had enough of the college game and all it entails— like NIL, the transfer portal, and a lack of regulation. It was announced on Friday that he is leaving his role as a Division-I, FBS head coach to serve as quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles.
If that sounds like a major demotion, it’s because it is. Kind of. This same kind of thing happened when Jeff Hafley left his role as head coach at Boston College to become an NFL defensive coordinator, but this latest move is not for a coordinator role.
Although Scot Loeffler gets back into the NFL ranks with the reigning Super Bowl champions and will presumably hope to climb his way back up to offensive coordinator and one day head coach, the move puts him right back where he was in 2008. He served as the quarterbacks coach for the Detroit Lions during his 12th year as a coach. He now will serve in that same role with a different team during his 30th year as a coach.
