Jake Scott to join College Football Hall of Fame

Former Georgia All-America safety Jake Scott, a Super Bowl MVP with the Miami Dolphins, will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Assuming he shows up.

Scott lives in Hanalei, Hawaii, on the north shore of the island of Kaua'i.

"He's out of cell phone reach now," said Bill Stanfill, the former Outland Trophy winner who was inducted into the College Hall of Fame in 1998. "He's in Hawaii on his boat going way out to somewhere."

Stanfill, Scott's teammate at Georgia and with the Dolphins, spoke to Scott a day before Tuesday's Hall of Fame announcement, but said Scott did not mention the honor. A Georgia spokesman believed Scott learned about it in recent days.

The Greenwood, S.C., native was a star at the Athens YMCA and Athens High School before helping Georgia win the 1968 Southeastern Conference championship and a trip to the Sugar Bowl.

"I'm proud for him," Stanfill said. "It's long overdue."

Scott had rebuffed those who wanted to see him voted into the hall in the past, including legendary Georgia coach Vince Dooley, who served on the hall's committee.

Scott reportedly had a falling out with Dooley at the end of the 1968 season because he wanted to play in the Orange Bowl, but Dooley had signed to play in the lesser Sugar Bowl.

"I think there was a misunderstanding on an issue," Dooley said Tuesday.

"He's a stubborn guy, but a good guy," Stanfill said of Scott. "I tell you what, I wouldn't want him for an enemy."

A 2006 story from the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel said Scott "doesn't do interviews, rarely surfaces in public ... and has pulled such a Howard Hughes that a sports memorabilia dealer, showing the kind of focus that sends others in search of Sasquatch, once hired a private investigator to contact him. It took two years."

Dooley said he thought Scott was deserving and called him several years ago when he received word that Scott was not interested.

Scott was on a boat, fishing for marlin.

"I wanted to be sure before we nominated him or selected him that he would in fact want to be in the Hall of Fame," Dooley said. "He was very nice. He said thank you, but I just don't want to put on a black tie. That would be Jake."

Scott famously rode a motorcycle across the roof of Stegeman Coliseum during his time in Athens.

Scott left Georgia after his junior season to play for British Columbia of the Canadian Football League (Dooley said he was ineligible after taking a trip to visit a C

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