Scott Altizer - Football Coach - University of Tennessee Athletics

Scott Altizer

Title:
Director of High School Relations
Email:
saltizer@utk.edu
Phone:
(865) 974-1234

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updated July 2024

An established and familiar face returned to Rocky Top in 2021 as Scott Altizer serves as Tennessee’s Director of Football Relations. Altizer enters his 30th year at Tennessee and his fourth year as a member of Josh Heupel’s staff in 2024.

Altizer is involved in numerous internal and external facets of the program and serves as liaison to VFLs, who have given their all for Tennessee over the years.

Altizer returned after seven years in athletic administration at Chattanooga, including the last three years as Deputy Athletics Director. He served as UTC’s Interim Director of Athletics from June 13 through Sept. 17, 2017.

Altizer oversaw a number of areas at Chattanooga, including business affairs, assigned event game operations, recruiting operations, internal communications, facilities and facilities planning and oversight for assigned sports.

As oversight of the Mocs football team, Altizer helped UTC to back-to-back Southern Conference titles in 2014 and 2015 and three-straight appearances in the FCS Playoffs from 2014-16. Altizer served as the men’s basketball oversight during head coach Matt McCall’s tenure. That included the school-record 29-win season in 2015-16 that resulted in SoCon regular season and tournament titles.

He also held oversight of the men’s and women’s golf, cross country/track and field and wrestling programs. He was instrumental in construction of the hitting bays at the golf programs’ player development complex.

Altizer was part of the search committees that hired head coaches Tom Arth (football), Matt McCall (men’s basketball), Gavin McKinney (soccer), Chad Camper (women’s tennis), Chuck Merzbacher (men’s tennis), Katie Burrows (women’s basketball) and Kyle Ruschell (wrestling).

Altizer joined UTC after a 20-year tenure at Tennessee. He was the director of football relations for the Vols and served on the staffs of Butch Jones, Derek Dooley and Phillip Fulmer, beginning as a graduate assistant in the recruiting office in 1994. His duties included the day-to-day operation of the recruiting office, overseeing official and unofficial prospect visits, head coaches recruiting schedule and travel, and the direction and supervision of all recruiting office personnel.

Altizer also served as the liaison from the football office to the Thornton Academic Center and the undergraduate admissions office as it pertains to prospective student-athletes and their admission process.

A native of Morristown, Tennessee, Altizer attended Furman University where he was a four-year baseball letterman and enjoyed a brief professional career after graduation in 1993. He and his wife, the former Sandy Apple of Nashville, have two girls, Samantha and Sarah.