OT: Hazell out at Purdue

Submitted by dnak438 on

Per Purdue's Rivals site (https://purdue.rivals.com/news/darrell-hazell-is-out-as-purdue-s-footba…):

After managing only a 9-33 record over three-plus seasons, Darrell Hazell is no longer Purdue’s head coach, GoldandBlack.com has learned.

Hazell was fired Sunday, one day after Iowa dominated the Boilermakers 49-35 on Homecoming.

Receivers coach Gerad Parker will be the interim coach. Parker is in his fourth season with the Boilermakers, coming on staff as tight ends coach before moving to coach the receivers last season.

 
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rob f

October 16th, 2016 at 7:26 PM ^

Nothing could make Danny Hope look good. Hope is the main reason Hazell walked into a hopeless situation (pun intended). The entire Purdue program unraveled completely when Hope got hired there. No discipline, no direction, no ability to recruit, nothing. He turned a middle-of-the-road Purdue program under Joe Tiller into the worst program in the B1G almost overnight. Hazell was a cheap hire by Purdue who proved to be in over his head. Not incompetent but just not good enough to make a difference at a historically 2nd- or 3rd-tier program in complete disarray. It wouldn't surprise me to see Hazell resurface as a coordinator and eventually get another shot at head coaching some day. Hope, though? No way any program at any level should give him another shot at a head coaching position.

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rob f

October 16th, 2016 at 9:32 PM ^

it would be a great hire that would bring relatively quick results and create an immediate huge splash on the recruiting trail. As much as Purdue fans might wish for Miles, in my mind there a certain disconnect when I think of Les and Purdue: A coach with his reputation for weak QB play, coaching at a school that prides itself as "The Cradle of Quarterbacks"? Whether or not that's a factor, Miles to Purdue is a longshot at best. Would be fun to watch, though.

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Mr Miggle

October 16th, 2016 at 4:51 PM ^

He's usually had the highest paid staff in CFB, more like $5.5 M. I don't think he would agree to a Big Ten school lowballing him on staff. If Purdue hires a big name coach like Miles, it's got to come with a financial commitment to competing in the league. That means assistants, S & C and support staff.

I'm skeptical that Purdue wants to go that route. They'll pull a coach from Illinois State or the MAC and hope for improvement to Indiana's level.

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snarling wolverine

October 16th, 2016 at 2:47 PM ^

There's going to be a really big number of schools looking for new coaches, and yet the crop of rising young coaches seems weak.  Expect a lot of "We fired ______ for him?" posts across the CFB internet universe in the coming months.

 

 

 

 

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snarling wolverine

October 16th, 2016 at 3:08 PM ^

I'm not worried, for two reasons:

1.  We have every reason to believe Harbaugh will hire a great replacement.

2.  The best offensive mind on the staff is probably Harbaugh himself, anyway.  

Don Brown is the one assistant that I'd be nervous about losing - he seems like a legit difference-maker.  But it's likely he'll stick around.

 

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Perkis-Size Me

October 16th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^

Almost anyone Purdue gets will be an upgrade from Hazell. Purdue was a total laughingstock under him and was awful in every phase of the game.

He made Danny Hope look good. That's when you know that no matter how many
good candidates there are out there, that a change has to be made.



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snarling wolverine

October 16th, 2016 at 3:17 PM ^

I'm not necessarily talking about Purdue, just about the CFB scene in general.

Tom Herman's a promising guy but if he's the #1 candidate nationally, it's a weak year.  He's a second-year coach at Houston, after all.  In the last five years we've seen Meyer, Petersen and Harbaugh come available - superstar coaches in their prime.  There probably isn't anyone like who will be available, unless Chip Kelly decides he wants to go back to college.

 

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wolverblue

October 16th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^

I would take Schiano over Fleck any day. Schiano had six winning seasons and five bowl wins at f'n Rutgers. He has NFL coaching experience, DC at Miami when they were good (did well recruiting FL in his time at Rutgers) and now at OSU should help him with recruiting in Ohio. I understand why people didn't want him at Michigan, but Purdue would be stupid to not go after him.

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jimmyshi03

October 16th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^

Seriously. If he can take EMU to a bowl game, it'd be one of the better coaching accomplishments anywhere in teh last 20 years. And he coached in the state of Indiana for the better part of a decade and in the midwest for his entire career.

Miles would require a financial commitment, not just for him but for his staff, that I don't imagine Purdue would be able or willing to make. 

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EGD

October 16th, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^

I think Miles might be too old for a rebuilding job. But once the carousel starts spinning, jobs could open up at programs ready to win immediately. If Miles still wants to coach, he could realistically take over a team that already has a strong nucleus and keep them going.

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bacon1431

October 16th, 2016 at 2:58 PM ^

I thought they made an ok choice not to fire him last year because they would be competing with several other similar B1G schools. Maryland, Rutgers and Illinois were all looking for new coaches (and I believe that Minny hadn't made their interim permanent at the time that Hazell was confirmed to be back). Plus schools like Iowa St, Virginia Tech, Virginia, BYU etc. Would have been a tough market for them to compete in.

However, looks like it could be just as tough this year. Herman and Fleck will be among the hottest commodities from mid majors. I guess they could go the coordinator route. But it's always a risk.



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