Placer's new radio voice has football background

Placer High football will have a new voice calling its games this fall on KAHI radio. That voice will belong to Scott Gordon, an experienced broadcaster and sideline reporter who has spent time working in the NFL, college football and at various high schools across the state. Gordon played Division I football himself at Arizona for his first two years of college. Following that, he served as a graduate assistant for the Wildcats before getting his start in broadcasting. "My junior year of college, I interned at the NBC affiliate there in Tucson, and the cool thing about going to school in a college town is they have their primary guy and they have their weekend guy," Gordon said. "And as an intern, you really got to learn how to produce, how to edit, how to go out to events, things like that. So I started training. I did what I had to do to stay around the game." After college, Gordon began to broadcast a high school game of the week every Friday in his hometown of Palos Verdes but eventually had to relocate to Northern California due to his other job. "I reached out to UC Davis and Sac State once I got up here and just told them that I have a lot of experience in broadcasting," Gordon said. "UC Davis hired me, kind of on of a part-time basis to be a sideline reporter." That was a quick stint before Gordon was on the move again, this time to Reno, where he was the color commentator for Nevada Wolf Pack football. Gordon embraced the new job and even sat in on the quarterback meetings with Colin Kaepernick and College Football Hall of Fame coach Chris Ault. After a brief stint at Comcast SportsNet, Gordon found himself back in Sacramento, where he returned to the booth to call high school games around Northern California and became a quarterbacks coach at Christian Brothers before joining KAHI. "I've always been intrigued by Placer because they always seem tough. You look at the papers on Sunday morning, they're always there and you don't see them get blown out too often," Gordon said. "I'm actually pretty excited because it's a whole new venture for me both offensively and defensively, learning what they do. What I love about them is their longevity of staff and their history and their history of success." Gordon said he has "a lot of admiration for people like Placers that are willing to just play anybody to get themselves ready for league and then really understand that they just got to get better in these non-conference games and do well in league play." In addition to Placer games, Gordon will call UC Davis home football games on ESPN+ this season. Gordon can be heard calling Placer games on KAHI alongside Mark "The Phantom" Lowe, who is returning for a second season with the Hillmen. Placer opens the season Aug. 19 at home against Casa Roble.