Rejected twice to be head coach, Marshall High's Jose Razo has his football team a…
MarshallA former longtime Marshall assistant, he has led the Barristers to an unbeaten record in his second year as head coach. How many rejection letters from the same high school does it take for a football coach to conclude the school doesn't want to hire you?
You'd think that the Marshall grad had gotten the message that somebody didn't think he could be head coach. Instead of abandoning a program he had been with since playing linebacker at there since he was 15 years old, he decided to remain as an assistant coach.
"It was never personal for me," he said. "It was, 'I'm going to stay and help the kids."
When the job opened again in 2025 and Razo interviewed for a third time he told himself, "It's now or never." Talk about complete loyalty to a school.
KEY POINTS
- Rejected twice to be head coach, Marshall High's Jose Razo has his football team at 9-0.
- Jose Razo, the head football coach at unbeaten Marshall High, applied for the Barristers' head coaching position in 2019 and 2022, only to be turned down.
- Razo finally received an email informing him he was being promoted to head coach after 18 years serving as an assistant.
- "He stuck it out for the kids and the program," said Eagle Rock coach Andy Moran, who coached Razo at Marshall in 2005 and 2006.