Scott Satterfield ready for FIU’s season, after a trip back “home”
Among the Floridians roaming around Boone this week is Scott Satterfield, ASU’s former quarterback and quarterbacks coach who is now offensive coordinator at Florida International.
Satterfield, who is married to the former Beth Burleson, who was a member of ASU’s track and field team in the mid ‘90s, and they have a daughter and two sons.
He brought the family back to Boone, where he spent every year since 1991 before moving on to Toledo as the passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach last season, for vacation. He also spent much of Tuesday at ASU talking football with the Mountaineers’ coaches.
“It’s like family here,” Satterfield said. “It’s a good chance to compare notes and share a few ideas. We’re all doing about the same thing offensively, but you are always looking for ways to tweak here and there.”
FIU was 3-9 overall and 3-5 in the Sun Belt Conference last season.
Satterfield said that he likes the free reign Coach Mario Cristobal has given him as offensive coordinator.
“He’s given me full confidence to run the offense, letting me call it the way I want to call it,” Satterfield said. “I couldn’t ask for anything more than that. Geoff Collins, who was at Western Carolina, is the new defensive coordinator so we’ve got two Southern Conference boys running the offense and defense down there.
“The program is only eight years old, so that part’s kind of tough, but we’re pretty good at skill positions. I think where we have to upgrade a bit is on the offensive and defensive lines.
“The immediate problem was have is that we’ve got Rutgers, Texas A&M, Pittsburgh and Maryland in our first four weeks. We’ve never beaten a BCS school, so it would be nice to get one of those.”