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Stan Drayton (Head Coach, Temple Owls)

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Ohio State notebook: New receivers coach in motion at practice
Sunday August 14, 2011
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch

New assistant coach Stan Drayton has been Ohio State?s 12th man at times during preseason practice.

A play might have just finished, and Drayton often will be seen on the field running with and lecturing/congratulating/cajoling one of his receivers. For the former Florida assistant, it?s just another day at the office.

?I try to provide energy,? Drayton said. ?Every day, I tell them I am ready to give it up for them, so I expect them to give it up for me.

?If they see me walking around, if they see me kind of just loafing around, then I can expect them to do the same. So I am going to go out there and give them the effort I expect them to give me.?

As he put it about his players: ?I am really impressed with the effort right now.?

He was hired in the winter to take the place of longtime receivers coach Darrell Hazell, now the coach at Kent State. Of course, the man who hired Drayton was Jim Tressel, who resigned on May 30. Luke Fickell is now the coach.

That would appear to be a major change of conditions for Drayton. But then, Florida changed coaches this season, too, with Will Muschamp replacing Urban Meyer.

?I don?t second-guess it at all,? said Drayton, a Cleveland native.

?What has been most impressive is how these players have handled the adversity. They are using it as motivation.?
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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/08/14/receivers-coach.html
 
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Drayton Adds Spice to Ohio State?s Pre-Made Offense
By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Stan Drayton is hardly a newcomer to the state of Ohio, but at Ohio State, the Cleveland native represents an outsider.

Hired back in January to replace Darrell Hazell as the wide receivers in Columbus, Drayton is an outlier on a staff full of Jim Tressel prot?g?es.

Unlike most of his colleagues, Drayton had never crossed paths with Tressel on the coaching circuit before his hiring at Ohio State. He wasn?t a graduate assistant at OSU in the mid 1980s or an assistant of Tressel?s at Youngstown State.

About the closest Drayton got to Tressel before this year was his time at John Marshall High School in the late ?80s.

Not to say that others on the staff weren?t, but Drayton was hired entirely on the merits of his body of work as an offensive coach. That includes time with the Green Bay Packers, Mississippi State, Tennessee and two stints with the Florida Gators.

He brings a fresh perspective and a new energy to the Ohio State offense, but don?t expect the Buckeyes to come out running the one-back spread attack this fall.

?I?ll bring some things to the table, but it has to fit who we are,? said Drayton, who spent last season coaching Urban Meyer?s running backs at Florida.

?If I have something that doesn?t fit, it?s not going to get used and it won?t even be brought up.?

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http://www.the-ozone.net/football/2011/Akron/Drayton.html
 
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http://www.the-ozone.net/flash/12-13/12-09-10/120910Drayton.html

A very insightful interview on the thought process going through our coaches' heads when they get to gameday. Also gives additional insight into our current stock of RBs.

A side note: Drayton says "you know" a lot. Greenies for anyone who can figure out how many "you know"s he says in that video clip. My guess, a gazillion!

ps: Probably a pipe dream, but I still wish we had gone after and gotten Green next year :(
 
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