Noel Mazzone

Noel Mazzone
Sport(s)	Football
Current position
Title	Offensive coordinator
Team	Arizona State
Conference	Pac-10
Biographical details
Born	March 21, 1957 (1957-03-21) (age 54)
Place of birth	Mount Vernon, Washington
Playing career
1975–1979	New Mexico
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1980–1981 1982–1986 1987–1991 1992–1994 1995–1998 1999–2001 2002 2003–2004 2004–2005 2006–2008 2009 2010–present	New Mexico (GA) Colorado State (QB/WR) TCU (QB) Minnesota (QB) Ole Miss (OC) Auburn (OC) Oregon State (OC) NC State (OC) Ole Miss (OC) New York Jets (WR) Panther Creek HS (NC) (OC) Arizona State (OC)

Noel Mazzone (born March 21, 1957) is an American football coach and former player in the United States. He is currently the offensive coordinator at Arizona State University, a position he had held since the 2010 season.

Early life and playing career

Mazzone grew up in Raton, New Mexico and went on to play college football as a quarterback under coach Bill Mondt at the University of New Mexico from 1975 to 1979.

Coaching career

After graduation, Mazzone started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at New Mexico under head coach Joe Morrison who had succeeded Mondt in 1980. Coach Mazzone also spent one season (1981) at Boulder High School coaching future University of Colorado Greats Tom Gebhardt and Eric McCarty. In 1982, Mazzone received his first full-time position, coaching quarterbacks and receivers under Leon Fuller at Colorado State. After 5 years at CSU, Mazzone was hired away by Jim Wacker to serve as quarterbacks coach at Texas Christian. When Wacker left TCU for the head coaching position at the University of Minnesota in 1992, Mazzone followed Wacker to serve the same position with the Gophers.

In 1995, Mazzone was hired as offensive coordinator by Tommy Tuberville, who had just become head coach at Ole Miss. Tuberville left Ole Miss for Auburn in 1999, taking Mazzone with him. However, after the 2001 season Tuberville choose to replace Mazzone with Bobby Petrino. Oregon State head coach Dennis Erickson then hired Mazzone as offensive coordinator for the 2002 season. While Erickson left the collegiate ranks to coach the San Francisco 49ers, Mazzone chose to remain, becoming offensive coordinator under Chuck Amato at North Carolina State where he coached Philip Rivers, who would be the fourth overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. In 2004, Mazzone returned to Ole Miss to serve as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under head coach Ed Orgeron. He was fired as offensive coordinator at the end of the 2004 season but remained an employee at Ole Miss for contractual reasons.

In 2006, Mazzone took his first position in the NFL when new head coach Eric Mangini hired him as wide receivers coach for the New York Jets. Mangini was fired by the Jets following the 2008 season and Mazzone's contract with the Jets was allowed to expire.

In January 2009, Mazzone was under consideration by Randy Shannon for the vacant position as offensive coordinator for the Miami Hurricanes,^[1] and in February of that year was under consideration by Dave Wannstedt as offensive coordinator for the University of Pittsburgh.^[2] He was also being considered for the job coaching quarterbacks under Mangini with the Cleveland Browns.^[3][4]

But, instead of going to coach for any college he decided to assume the duties of offensive coordinator for Panther Creek High School in Cary, NC under Wayne Bragg.

On January 4, 2010, he was hired as offensive coordinator at Arizona State University, where he is reunited with Dennis Erickson, who he previously worked under at Oregon State University.

References

1. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3849830&name=feldman_bruce
2. ^ Paul Zeise, Redshirt Diaries: Has Dave Wannstedt found his man?, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Now, date=2009-02-13, accessdate=2009-02-16
3. ^ http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2009/01/source_says_mangini_is_targeti.html
4. ^ http://www.cleveland.com/browns/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1232098364227490.xml&coll=2

External links

• Arizona State profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Rodney Allison	Auburn Tigers Offensive Coordinator 1999–2001	Succeeded by Bobby Petrino
Preceded by Jeremy Bates	New York Jets wide receivers coach 2006–2008	Succeeded by Henry Ellard

Persondata
Name	Mazzone, Noel
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Date of birth	March 21, 1957
Place of birth	Mount Vernon, Washington
Date of death
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