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Falcons tab Preston as first offensive coordinator



UTPB announced Tuesday that coaching veteran Scott Preston has been hired as offensive coordinator for the school’s upstart football team.

Preston began his college coaching career in 1991 at San Francisco State University and has made subsequent stops at Valdosta State, Georgia Military College, Ventura College, Murray State, Illinois State, Arkansas Tech, Tiffin and Belhaven. He served as offensive coordinator at Murray State, Illinois and Arkansas Tech and spent last season as a Belhaven assistant to Hal Mumme, one of the orchestrators of the Air Raid offense.

In 1995 and again in 2011, Preston coached professional football teams in Finland.

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