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How East Texas Baptist built Scotty Walden into a rising star

Oct 01, 2020, 8:30 PM

Scotty Walden was named Southern Miss interim coach at just 30 years old. However, his path to coaching stardom really began at East Texas Baptist.

How East Texas Baptist built Scotty Walden into a rising star

When Scotty Walden was still a young coordinator at East Texas Baptist, he held a passing camp for high school quarterbacks. 

Many young signal-callers from around the area wanted to learn the tools that suddenly made ETBU into an offensive juggernaut. More wanted to learn the secrets of the boisterous, blonde-haired 25-year-old wunderkind zooming through the ranks of Division III football. 

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