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Coaching Trees - John Cooper

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Larry Coker
? OSU assistant: 1993 and '94, under John Cooper
? The skinny: Joined Butch Davis' staff at Miami staff in 1995 and was head coach from 2001 to '06, leading the Hurricanes to the 2001 national title.

Jim Colletto
? OSU assistant: 1988 to '90, under John Cooper
? The skinny: Was head coach at Purdue from 1991 to '96, before becoming an assistant again in college and the NFL, where he currently is line coach of the Detroit Lions.

Walt Harris
? OSU assistant: 1995 and '96, under John Cooper
? The skinny: Was head coach at Pitt from 1997 to 2004, then at Stanford in 2005 and '06.

Lovie Smith
? OSU assistant: 1995, under John Cooper
? The skinny: Left to become an NFL assistant (Tampa Bay and St. Louis), then in 2004 became head coach of the Chicago Bears.

Ron Zook
? OSU assistant: 1988 to '90, under John Cooper
? The skinny: Worked under Steve Spurrier at Florida and was an NFL assistant coach before becoming head coach at Florida (2002 to '04) and Illinois (2005 to present).
 
Pretty nice coaching tree, but 2-10-1 does still hurt. I was very glad to see us win one against scUM with Gordon Gee back at the helm. I'll never forget some of Coops deer in the headlight looks against the skunkbears. Tress's calm controlled demeanor is such a contrast and I think one of the main reasons for his teams success against the school up north.
 
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CCI;1001936; said:
Good job Coach Coop, he was a good coach , recruiter, but the 2-10-1 hurt me so bad. He is forgiven in my book.
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Can there be forgiveness without repentence? I don't think Cooper has every repented, so no forgiveness. Maybe we can excuse him, but not forgive!
 
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buckeyegrad;1002373; said:
Can there be forgiveness without repentence? I don't think Cooper has every repented, so no forgiveness. Maybe we can excuse him, but not forgive!
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alittle something that I got
 

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I, for one, have forgiven Coop. The older I get the easier it is to look back on his 13 years with a little more objectivity. The number one question I have asked myself; Was the program better off during and after Cooper's arival than it was before he arrived?

The answer to that question is a resounding YES!. The number of all-american's and 1st round/day NFL draft picks that cooper recruited is astounding. Not that OSU wasn't a national player, before Coop arrived in recruiting, but it's hard to ignore the number of players from states like Florida and California who were now coming to Columbus. A knock that I heard against Coop was that he couldn't recruit Ohio...Funny...I don't remember where Robert Smith, Kory Stringer, Orlando Pace, Dan Wilkerson, etc were leaving the state, do you?

Look, nobody was more pissed at 2-10-1 than I was. But for all of his failures against tsun, let us remember that the 02 National Champions were mostly Coops kids and that OSU is a stronger program for the foundation he helped lay in recruiting.

just my opinion.
 
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