By Will Vandervort.

When Dabo Swinney was addressing the media to preview Clemson’s showdown with Oklahoma in the Russell Athletic Bowl back in December, Jeff Scott stopped the press conference briefly to bring him a piece of paper that was just faxed into the Clemson football office.

It was Albert Huggins’ financial aid agreement, which he sent to the football office moments after announcing his plans to attend Clemson. Swinney had previously announced new quarterback’s coach Brandon Streeter would take over as recruiting coordinator after Scott was promoted to co-offensive coordinator status following the departure of Chad Morris, who is now the head coach at SMU.

“First day on the job and Streeter already lands a big commitment,” Swinney joked to the crowd.

Of course Streeter was not in charge of the Huggins’ commitment. That still belonged to Scott, who closed out his duties as recruiting coordinator by orchestrating the signing of Clemson’s best class earlier this month. The 2015 recruiting class, which included Huggins out of Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School, was rated as the No. 4 recruiting class by Rivals and ESPN. It was also charged as the No. 8 recruiting class by 247 Sports.

“Waking up this morning was a little bit bitter sweet for me,” said Scott back on national signing day. “I’m just one that has always loved recruiting from a very early age. Some people do it because it is part of the job, but I do it because I love it.”

Scott received the keys to the recruiting car at Clemson in December of 2008 when he took over for Billy Napier, who orchestrated his own top 5 recruiting class the February before. Napier, like Scott, was promoted to offensive coordinator as part of Swinney’s first staff at Clemson, while Scott was moved up from graduate assistant status to wide receivers coach.

“(Napier) walked across the hall and had all these big old baskets full of videos, charts and maps and everything and kind of threw it on my desk and said, ‘Good luck!’ He kind of smiled walking out,” Scott said. “How times have changed. Seven years later, I’m going to walk across and hand Coach Streeter a little jump drive today that has everything he needs.

“He will do a great job and I’m looking forward to him taking over later today. I know he is very detailed oriented, a great coach, a great communicator and has a passion for Clemson.”

Streeter takes the wheel of a car that is a little more supped up than the one Scott received when he became recruiting coordinator. Not only does he have a little jump-drive with all the info about every recruit he will ever need on it, but he also has the help of a recruiting center which is run by Thad Turnipseed, Swinney’s director of recruiting and external affairs.

Turnipseed and his staff oversee the ins and outs of all recruiting aspects from social media, emails, video productions, player videos, evaluations, recruiting visits and game-day coordination.

When Scott became recruiting coordinator, he began to upgrade the technology by making every coach on staff, even the older minded ones, have and learn how to use a smart phone. He then began to show them the power of texting, twitting, and all the facets and advantages of social media when it came to recruiting.

His last move was helping Swinney bring in Turnipseed, which is taking recruiting to another level at Clemson. In his first month on the job, Streeter has used the new bells and whistles to land seven verbal commitments, including five-star running back Tavien Feaster of Spartanburg.

“I feel like we have one of the best recruiting staffs and operations in the country,” Scott said. “I think it starts with the top, the leadership. I call them the big three of Clemson. That is President Clements, Athletic Director Dan Radakovich and obviously Coach Swinney. I think they are as good as it gets in college football and with the new age we are getting ready to go into in college football, with autonomy and all the things that is going to allow us to do, I think Clemson is in a very good position.”

A position Scott helped build – a position that he now turns over to Brandon Streeter to continue to build and improve upon even more.