Darrell Hazell is an American college football

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 coach. He is currently the head coach at Kent State University

Kent State University

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.

A native of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, Hazell attended Muskingum University starting in the fall of 1982. He played on the football team as a starter for his final three years at the school. Hazell graduated in 1986.

He held assistant coaching positions at Oberlin

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, Eastern Illinois, Penn

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, Western Michigan

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, Army

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, West Virginia

West Virginia Mountaineers football

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, and Rutgers

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. Hazell then served as the wide receivers coach

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 at Ohio State

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 under Jim Tressel

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 from 2004 to 2010. In December 2010, Kent State University

Kent State University

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 hired him as its head coach.

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