William Bernard "Rip" Scherer Jr. (born August 3, 1952) is an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
coach and former player. In 2018, he was named tight ends coach with th
Los Angeles Chargers Prior to the LA Chargers, Scherer was the tight ends coach for UCLA.
Scherer is the cousin of
Kevin Colbert
Kevin Colbert (; born January 1957) is a former American football executive. He served as the general manager of Pittsburgh Steelers from 2000 to 2021. Colbert is widely credited with putting together the Super Bowl XL and the Super Bowl XLIII ...
, Vice President of Football Operations for the
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steel ...
. He is the son of longtime
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
-area high school coach William "Rip" Scherer.
Head coaching record
References
1952 births
Living people
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