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Don Corzine enters his second season with the Cardinals after being hired by the team to scout the northeast region of the country in June, 2005. Corzine is also the Cardinals representative with the National Football Scouting service.
Corzine joined the organization last year after spending the previous six seasons on the University of Connecticut football staff, including the last five as the Director of Football Operations. He joined the UConn staff in March of 1999 as a defensive assistant while also handling the recruiting coordinator duties.
A 1998 graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Sports Management, Corzine began his football career during high school, evaluating college players for the Cleveland Browns. While an undergraduate at IU, Corzine served in a variety of positions as a student assistant. From 1994-97, he served under then head coach Bill Mallory. In his first year, Corzine worked with the linebackers before shifting for the last three years to the position of video coordinator while also helping to coach the defensive backs. While at Indiana, he worked closely with the recruiting coordinator in the evaluation of prospects and coached at the Bill Mallory Football Camp. In 1998 Corzine served as an intern for Harold Mauro, Indiana’s Senior Associate Athletic Director.
A North Canton, OH native, Corzine got his first job out of college as a graduate assistant/video coordinator at Ball State University for the 1998 season before moving onto Connecticut the following year.
In addition to his duties as Director of Football Operations at UConn, he also served as the director of UConn Head Coach Randy Edsall’s Football Camp for five years. As the director, he oversaw the official and unofficial recruiting visits, team travel, high school coach relations, preseason camp, player housing, budgetary matters, and day-to-day operations.
Born May 13, 1976, Corzine is single and resides in Warwick, RI. | 