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Darrell Hazell (official thread)

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Lazy summer days hardly exist anymore for Buckeyes
Sunday, July 1, 2007 3:48 AM
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Darrell Hazell remembers his first summer as an assistant coach at Oberlin in 1986.

"I went home to New Jersey and stayed there with my folks for four or five weeks," Hazell said, laughing. "I guess you could say the job has changed drastically since then."

There is no such thing as extended downtime for college football coaches anymore. They still get vacation, and Hazell, the assistant head coach at Ohio State, said coach Jim Tressel demands that his assistants take it.

"He tells us we need to get away from the place and recharge the batteries," Hazell said. "He doesn't put any strings on us as far as needing to be around when it's your vacation.

"If it's your turn to cover the office, he has trust you'll get that done. But he really believes in his guys getting away, spending some time with your family, so when you come back in late July we can concentrate on the things we need to concentrate on and be fresh about it."
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The Columbus Dispatch : Lazy summer days hardly exist anymore for Buckeyes
 
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August 25, 2007
Hazell reflects on his former pupils
Kevin Noon
Managing Editor

The National Football League picked up a decided Ohio State flavor this past draft season with three players getting selected from coach Darrell Hazell's receiving corps. With Ted Ginn and Anthony Gonzalez both taken in the first round and Roy Hall joining Gonzo in Indianapolis after getting tabbed in the fifth round, the three former receivers have traded in scoring touchdowns for glory to scoring touchdowns for a NFL paycheck.

As the three players are in the midst of their pre-season schedule and the Ohio State team is at the end of the fall camp it hasn't stopped the former teach and his former pupils from getting in touch with one another and talking about life at the next level.

"They've all called me and shared some experiences," Hazell said. "It's funny to hear them talk about some things but they are working hard and as you would expect trying to do a good job for their team."

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MililaniBuckeye;632334; said:
I hope I'm not jinxing, but I don't see Hazell lasting more than a few more seasons before some decent-sized program offers him a head coaching job.
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Which raises the question about demand for black head coaches.
He's more likely to become an offensive coordinator.
 
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Hazell talks about the 3 WRs in this year's recruiting class.

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Hazell Hits the Jackpot in Recruiting Class
By John Porentas

Since he has arrived at OSU to coach the wide receivers Darrell Hazell has proven to have a pretty good eye for talent.

At his first national signing day press conference Hazell told anybody who would listen that the kid from New Jersey would be a player despite the fact that he wasn't highly recruited. No matter who asked him, Hazell always gave them the same name for the guy in the class that really excited him. That player was Malcolm Jenkins.

There have been others. In another season Hazell was very excited on national signing day about that kid with the funny name even though he too, like Jenkins, wasn't exactly a high-profile guy. Like Jenkins, Chimdi Chekwa has worked out pretty well.

Ironically, the players Hazell talked about in those seasons were not players that he ended up coaching. As a matter of fact, his unit, the wide receivers, has to go against them at OSU practice sessions.

This season Hazell was smiling once again on signing day, but this year it was :"his guys" in the recruiting class that were making him grin, and when Hazell grins, you know it. He's got one those big, infectious smiles that when he turns it on and talks about somebody or something, you just know he's convinced he knows something you don't, and you better listen.

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Dispatch: Hazell waiting in wings

Hazell waiting in wings
Blacks still a minority in head coaching ranks

Sunday, June 1, 2008 10:28 AM

By Tim May

Eighteen major colleges changed football coaches since last season ended. None called Darrell Hazell to ask whether he would be interested. None of the 24 who made changes the year before did either.

That's interesting for two reasons:

First, Hazell is assistant head coach at Ohio State, which has won three straight Big Ten titles and played in two straight national championship games. It seems like any program in flux would like to tap into that kind of success.

Second, Hazell is black, or African-American. Which does he prefer?

"Honestly, it doesn't matter to me," Hazell said.

But statistics show it does. Entering last season, six of the 119 major college football programs had black coaches, and just more than 20 percent of the assistants were black.

This is not a story to decry the situation, though. It's more to point out there are viable candidates, such as Hazell -- he's 44, a 23-year college coaching veteran who has been assistant head coach at Rutgers and Ohio State -- who get overlooked.

Coach Jim Tressel has three black assistants, including Paul Haynes and Taver Johnson. But none was called last winter, despite the Buckeyes' success.

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Taosman;1079447; said:
Which raises the question about demand for black head coaches.
He's more likely to become an offensive coordinator.
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I would believe with his background, experience and recruiting capabilities that getting an OC position especially at OSU :wink2: would put him over the top for a head coaching position.
 
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I have no doubt as to Coach Hazell getting a HC job somewhere soon, as in the next 4-5 years.

Hazzell is learning from the best.

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