Oklahoma State University Athletics
Darrell Wyatt Joins OSU Football Staff
April 08, 2003 | Cowboy Football
Recognized as one of the top young coaches in the country, Wyatt comes to OSU after serving as assistant head coach and receivers coach at KU last year. He joined Terry Allen's Kansas staff prior to the 1997 season. Wyatt has been in the collegiate coaching ranks since 1989.
"Darrell Wyatt will be a tremendous addition to the Oklahoma State football family," Miles said. "He has an incredible knowledge of the game and is a proven recruiter. I'm delighted he has agreed to join us."
Wyatt arrives in Stillwater after four years at Kansas, a year each at Baylor and Wyoming, three seasons at Sam Houston State and three seasons at Trinity Valley Community College in Texas.
His playing career includes two seasons at Kansas State where he lettered as a wide receiver in 1988 for coach Stan Parrish. He also excelled as a sprinter on the Kansas State track squad.
Wyatt is a native of Killeen, Texas and earned All-Central Texas honors in football. He started his collegiate playing career at Trinity Valley where he led the team in receptions in 1986. He transferred from Trinity Valley to Kansas State ahead of the 1987 season.
After graduating from Kansas State in 1989, Wyatt continued his education with graduate studies at the University of Texas.
He entered the coaching profession at Trinity Valley in 1989 and spent the next three seasons coaching receivers and the secondary. He helped lead Trinity Valley to the Texas Junior College Conference championship in 1991.
From Trinity Valley, he went to Sam Houston State (1992-94) where he served as receivers coach and passing game coordinator. He accepted the position of receivers coach at Wyoming in 1995. His Wyoming passing game accounted for 378 yards and five touchdowns against Oklahoma State in a 1995 game in Laramie.
The '95 game against the Cowboys was just a taste of things to come for the Wyoming Cowboys. In Laramie, Wyatt helped develop one of the nation's top passing games and he coached an outstanding corps of receivers. In 1995 alone, Wyoming passed for 3,005 yards, averaged 273 yards per game and had 23 touchdown passes.
Among the standouts coached by Wyatt was Marcus Harris, who earned All-America honors after catching 78 passes for 1,43 yards and 14 touchdowns.
In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Wyatt has completed three minority coaching fellowships in the National Football League. He spent the summer of 1996 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the summers of 1997 and 1998 with the Denver Broncos.
Wyatt, and his wife, Cindy, have a son (Desmond) and a daughter (Charese).
