Larry Coker (ex-Miami coach)

[timBUCK2]

Miami still has a football team?

I thought they replaced football with street fighting...

[txbuckeye1983]

Originally Posted by timBUCK2

Miami still has a football team?

I thought they replaced football with street fighting...

Come on now, the Canes are bowl eligible this year. Sure, they have only won six games, but they play in a tough BCS conference. Ok, they play in a BCS conference. Ok, they've lost to powers such as Wake Forest and Maryland, but they will still be playing in Boise come bowl season. I mean, how many "big-time" programs can say they've played a game on blue turf? That's special.

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

And since Miami travels so well, I'd expect that they'd fill almost all of Row Q, seats 5 - 10 up there in Boise. I sure hope it's snowy and [censored]ty that day.

[OSUBuckeye4Life]

I was just re-reading the book "What It Means To Be A Buckeye" yesterday on the [censored]ter, and ran across a part that mentions Larry Coker. Figured I'd put it in here given the situation:

This is an exert from the Joe Germaine chapter:

Then Larry Coker from Ohio State recruited me. He was the defensive backs coach at the time and then he got appointed quarterbacks coach, so I was really excited abou that. But suddenly, he left for Miami [to become the offensive coordinator] and I remember talking to him on the phone, asking him, "What am I going to do now?" He said, "Joe, you need to be a Buckeye."

[coastalbuck]

Originally Posted by OSUBuckeye4Life

I was just re-reading the book "What It Means To Be A Buckeye" yesterday on the [censored]ter, and ran across a part that mentions Larry Coker. Figured I'd put it in here given the situation:

This is an exert from the Joe Germaine chapter:

Very good quote.

[sandgk]

Originally Posted by OSU_Buckguy

anyone have his email address? perhaps he can learn a few things here: http://buckeyefansonly.com/notcalled.html .

Paul Dees E-mail FWIW

To hell with what the fat-ass in Coral Gables claims.

It just cost UM 3 Million to oust Coker, in a budget that loses money each year on Football - they have bigger problems.

[Steve19]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2674282

Miami fired football coach Larry Coker on Friday, a day after the Hurricanes beat No. 18 Boston College 17-14 to salvage a 6-6 season to become eligible to play in a postseason bowl game.
Coker's Record at MiamiYearRecordBowl Result200112-0Rose: Beat Nebraska 37-14*200212-1Fiesta: Lost to Ohio State 31-24*200311-2Orange: Beat Florida State 16-1420049-3Peach: Beat Florida 27-1020059-3Peach: Lost to LSU 40-320066-6TBATotal59-153-2, 1 BCS title* -- BCS national championship

Coker was informed of the decision by athletics director Paul Dee early Friday. Coker has three years remaining on a contract that pays him nearly $2 million annually, and the school will owe him between $2.4 million and $3 million in a buyout.

"The university has made a decision to change head coaches for our football program," Dee said at a news conference.
If Miami is invited to a bowl game, Coker will coach the team.

"I'd like to certainly end on a positive note," Coker said.

Coker, 58, won more games in his first six seasons than any other Hurricanes coach except Dennis Erickson, and he has won more games since 2001 than all but five Division I-A coaches.



Joel Auerbach/US Presswire

Larry Coker was fired after leading the Hurricanes to a 6-6 record in a 2006 season filled with turmoil and tragedy.



Coker had a 59-15 record, a winning percentage of ne