Adam Scheier - Special Teams Coordinator / Tight Ends Coach - Staff Directory

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Adam Scheier

Title:
Special Teams Coordinator / Tight Ends Coach
Email:
Phone:
215-204-4694

ADAM SCHEIER
Hometown	Bronx, N.Y.
College	Dartmouth
Family	Wife: Erica
	Children: daughters Callie, Riley, and Maddie; son Brady

Coaching Experience
Year	School, Position
2022-	Temple, STC / TEs
2020-21	Rutgers, STC
2019	Mississippi State, Sr ST Consultant
2018	Texas Tech, ST
2017	Ohio State, ST QC
2014-16	Wake Forest, ST / TEs
2009-13	Bowling Green, ST / TEs
2005-08	Lehigh, ST / WRs
2002-04	Lehigh, ST / RBs
2000-01	Princeton, ST / WRs
1997-99	Columbia, SAF / OLB
1996	Dartmouth, Secondary
Postseason Experience
Year	Bowl, School
2021	Gator Bowl, Rutgers
2019	Music City Bowl, Mississippi State
2017	Cotton Bowl, Ohio State
2016	Military Bowl, Wake Forest
2013	Little Caesars Bowl, Bowling Green
2012	Military Bowl, Bowling Green
2009	Humanitarian Bowl, Bowling Green

Adam Scheier joined the Temple Football Staff in January, 2022, as the Special Teams Coordinator and Tight Ends Coach. A native of Bronx, N.Y., Scheier brings 28 years of collegiate coaching experience into 2024, including the last 24 working with special teams.

In 2022, Scheier’s tight end room produced a bounce-back campaign for David Martin-Robinson. Martin-Robinson had a breakout season despite missing the season's first three games. He finished with a career-best 33 receptions for 366 yards and two scores. On the special teams side, punter Mackenzie Morgan landed on the Ray Guy Award watch list, and scored a trick play touchdown, the first ever by an Australian player for Temple. Kicker Camden Price had a great year in his first season as the Owls’ place kicker. The grad transfer from Miami went 13-14 on field goal attempts, leading Temple in scoring with 57.

The 2023 campaign was a memorable one for Scheier's tight end group. Martin-Robinson became the first tight end in school history to earn a single-digit and the he went on to have his most productive season starting all 12 games, hauling in a career-high 40 catches for 537 yards. His 94 career catches set the program mark fro tight ends and he became just the second tight end to surpass the 1,000-yard plateau. His efforts were rewarded when he signed an UDFA contract with the Tennessee Titans. In addition, Jordan Smith had career highs in receptions (25) and touchdowns (4) earning him a tryout with his hometown Miami Dolphins.

Prior to coming to Temple, Scheier spent two seasons as Rutgers' special teams coordinator. The Scarlet Knights ranked seventh in the ESPN Special Teams Efficiency Ratings in 2020 and improved to No. 4 in 2021.

In 2021, his punt team led the nation with an NCAA single-season record 45.82 net punting average. Rutgers’ kickoff coverage unit finished 17^th in the nation allowing 17.58-yard per return. The Scarlet Knights punt block and return units were explosive ranked 25^th in the nation allowing 2.93-yards per return while blocking one punt and returning another for a touchdown. Punter Adam Korsak was a finalist for the Ray Guy Award, second team All-American and first-team All-Big Ten. Long snapper Billy Taylor earned first-team All-Big Ten honors.

In 2020 his kick return units scored three touchdowns (two kickoff, one punt) as Rutgers finished as one of four teams nationally, and the only Big Ten school, to reach the mark and one of 10 teams in the country with at least one kickoff and one punt return score. Rutgers led the Big Ten and ranked No. 16 nationally with 25.73 yards per kickoff return. Aron Cruickshank earned the Big Ten Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year and First Team All-Big Ten by the media and coaches, and was named honorable mention All-America as a kick returner by Phil Steele. He was one of four players tied for the nation's lead, and the only in the Big Ten, with two kickoff return touchdowns (100 yards at Purdue, 98 yards versus Nebraska). Cruickshank picked up 671 combined kick returns yards to rank fourth nationally and first in the conference. Korsak reset the school record with a net punt of 42.27, second in the Big Ten and eighth nationally. He earned second-team All-Big Ten after averaging 43 yards per game (fourth-best in a season in program history) with eight attempts of at least 50 yards. Two kickers (Valentino Ambrosio & Guy Fava) with zero prior field goal attempts combined to go 11-for-13, with Ambrosio kicking a tying field goal as time expired and later the game-winner in overtime to beat Maryland. Taylor selected second-team All-Big Ten by Phil Steele, earned Big Ten Sportsmanship Award and was a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy.

Scheier spent the 2019 season as senior special teams consultant at Mississippi State, as the Bulldogs earned a spot in the Music City Bowl.

In 2018, Scheier served as special teams coordinator at Texas Tech and merited a Broyles Award nomination. The Red Raiders were one of only three schools nationally that produced a semifinalist for both the Lou Groza Award and the Ray Guy Award. Kicker Clayton Hatfield was named First Team All-Big 12 with 106 points and ranked sixth nationally in field goal percentage (.895). Punter Dominic Panazzolo, who downed 21 boots inside the 20-yard line, and returner De'Quan Bowman, who placed fourth in the country with 906 combined kick return yards, both earned honorable mention All-Big 12 status.

Scheier arrived in Lubbock after spending the 2017 season at Ohio State, where he served as a special teams quality control coach. In that role, he worked closely with head coach Urban Meyer on game-planning, scheme development, opponent scouting and personnel for a team that won the Big Ten Championship Game and finished No. 5 in the AP Poll. Ohio State ended the year ninth nationally in punting (led the Big Ten), 10th in kickoff coverage (third in the Big Ten) and 17th for kickoff return (second in the Big Ten). The Buckeyes produced All-Big Ten performers at three special teams positions as well, kicker, punter and kickoff return specialist.

Scheier helped build several of the nation's top special teams units during his three years at Wake Forest, as the Demon Deacons ranked fourth nationally in net punting during his first season in 2014 and then eighth in 2015. Wake Forest led the ACC each of those two seasons and also ranked 13th nationally for kickoff coverage in 2014. Punter Alex Kinal became a two-time semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award and ended his tenure at Wake Forest ranked fourth all-time in career punting (41.8 yards per punt).

Scheier, who was also the tight ends coach at Wake Forest and Bowling Green, was instrumental in the development of Freshman All-American Cam Serigne, who set the Wake Forest single-season record for receptions by a tight end as just a redshirt freshman in 2014 and ended as the school's all-time career leader for both receptions and receiving yards by a tight end.

Scheier was similarly successful during his stint at Bowling Green, as the Falcons regularly ranked among the top special teams units in the Mid-American Conference (MAC). During his five-year tenure, Bowling Green blocked 16 kicks, returned three kickoffs for a touchdown and added four more touchdowns via punts during that span alone.

In his final season, Bowling Green returned two punts for touchdowns, as the Falcons led the MAC and ranked fourth nationally in punt return average. The Falcons were also the conference leader for kickoff return average, returning one for a touchdown, and placed 14th nationally in the category.

Scheier tutored Brian Schmiedebusch to All-MAC honors in both 2011 and 2012, as he was among the top punters in the country. Schmiedebusch averaged 45.3 yards per punt in 2011, which ranked fifth nationally and eighth in MAC history for single season, to earn a spot as a Ray Guy Award semifinalist. He connected on three punts that went for 70 yards on the season, including a booming 81-yarder that was just the third in school history to go over 80 yards.

Bowling Green relied heavily on its tight ends throughout his tenure as Scheier's position group earned All-MAC honors on three occasions with Jimmy Scheidler in 2009 and Alex Bayer in both 2012 and 2013. The Falcons won the MAC title in 2013, as Bayer ranked second on the team with 37 receptions for 593 yards and four touchdowns.

Scheier began his coaching career shortly after a four-year career at Dartmouth, where he was named the Special Teams Player of the Year as a senior. He earned his degree in psychology from Dartmouth shortly after his playing career concluded in 1995.

Scheier remained at Dartmouth for the 1996 season where he assisted in coaching the secondary. He moved to Columbia a year later to coach the strong safeties and outside linebackers for three seasons (1997-99). While in New York, he also earned his master's degree in education from Columbia in 1998.