Kent | Kent Football Trainer Is Seeking To Ohio High College Gift

For the final 7 years, Darrell Hazell saw firsthand only how sufficient Ohio high college football can offer as the backbone for a rarely successful college football program. After all, it is that tube of Ohio football gift that has helped make Ohio State a of the nation's chosen programs.

Hazell played a segment in bringing a few of that gift to the Buckeyes in his purpose as far-reaching receivers coach. Now, he wants to daub in to that tube in his new purpose as the head trainer at Kent State.

"One of the problems that existed at Kent State before you got there was that they never committed to recruiting the great players in this great state," Hazell mentioned whilst vocalization at the Massillon Tiger Football Booster Club Spring Kickoff at the Eagles 190 on Wednesday evening. "There are 719 schools in this state that fool around football. There's more than enough players to go around."

Hazell done that a indicate of stress roughly from the short time he was hired to reinstate Doug Martin as the Golden Flashes' head trainer Dec. 20 of final year.

Once he was able to entirely persevere his time to Kent State subsequent to the Buckeyes' Sugar Bowl win in early January, he zeroed in on that gridiron gift inside of the borders of the Buckeye State.

"We visited 177 schools in the state of Ohio, once you took the job, in 3 weeks in January," Hazell said. "We are so vehement to be representing Kent State University, and there's no way in the world we're going to let the great players (Massillon) puts out and the rest of this state puts out obtain divided from us. We are very, very, really sanctified and committed to this area and this state."

And that, specifically, includes the locale the 46-year-old Hazell found himself in Wednesday night.

"I'm really vehement to be here," Hazell said, "and the reason I say that is, no matter where I go in the nation - and I've been really lucky to partisan all over the nation -! everywh ere I go, they wish to know about this Massillon Tiger team. Florida. New Jersey. California. They're all, ‘What are these Massillon Tigers about?' Whatever you're carrying out here in Massillon, keep it going."

Kent State hasn't had a Massillon product on the register given Tyrell McElroy, who literate is to Golden Flashes from 2002-04. Since then, Tigers players have vanished on to pointer with Mid-American Conference programs such as Miami, Ball State and Toledo, but nothing have finished up at the Portage County school.

Hazell - who recruited Tiger far-reaching receiver Devin Smith to Ohio State - insists that's something that has to change for his module if it wants to turn a periodic contender in the MAC.

"I'm going to ensure our staff in confirmed here," he said. "We'll be down there all the time. I hope you guys acquire us the way we'll acquire you at our place."

And, in turn, Hazell hopes the best bestow is branch Kent State in to a periodic interlude indicate for those Ohio high college football players who can turn a college module in to a conform to winner.