Cory Hall left the Oregon State coaching staff and promptly went missing on his own terms.
“When I left, I went MIA,” Hall said. “Nobody knew that I was (at CMU). I just left.”
It was only a matter of time before he was discovered in Mount Pleasant as Central Michigan’s defensive backs coach. Once the news of his move to the Chippewas was released on March 18, Hall’s phone exploded with texts, phone calls and emails.
“You went to Central Michigan?” he remembers people curiously asking.
One of those phone calls was from Oregon State cornerback Xavier Crawford, who graduated from the university in three years and was granted his full release to transfer.