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Larry Coker (ex-Miami coach)

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ESPN.com

By Mark Schlabach
ESPN.com

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.

A Miami official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Coker's firing would be announced later today. 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.

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.
Coker had a 59-15 record, a winning percentage of nearly 80 percent, and won a national championship in 2001 and played for another title the following season.
Coker's teams were 4-2 against rival Florida State, 3-0 against Florida and won two BCS bowl games, including a 37-14 victory over Nebraska in the 2002 Rose Bowl, which gave the Hurricanes their fifth national title.
But the Hurricanes slipped considerably the last two seasons, after they won their first 25 games under Coker, a former Miami offensive coordinator, who was elevated to replace Butch Davis following the 2000 season.
Miami went 9-3 in 2004 and 2005 and salvaged a .500 record this season after beating the Eagles. The Hurricanes will probably play in the MPC Computers Bowl in Boise, Idaho or the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco.
The crowd of 23,308 at the Orange Bowl for the Boston College game was the smallest in Miami's 44 home games since Dec. 4, 1999.
"The future is very bright at the University of Miami," Coker said after the game. "We've been a little down. We won't be down long here, and you can print that."
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Paul Dee is a hard core d-bag. Anyone else watching the presser on ESPNEWS? He was asked what made Miami "the best job in the country (a comment he'd made earlier)" and he said something along the lines of "you can win here. Larry Coker won here..he won a national title, well he won 2 national titles. Of course the second one has an asterisk by it and my apologies to Ohio State because I know Coach Tressel, but that's the way I still feel about it."

Five years later and he still can't move on. What a bunch of losers they have down there at cryami.
 
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OSUBuckeye4Life;669512; said:
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.
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SATXBuck;669509; said:
Larry went out swinging! He didn't resign...:)
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To resign would have cost him between $2.4 million and $3 million. I wouldn't have resigned either. :biggrin:
 
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I thought I'd forgiven those morons down there for their stupid attitudes a while ago. WRONG! When your sorry ass AD says your fired coach won 2 national championships, and mentions the asterisk word on National TV at a presser, I'm sorry but your university, your players, your fanbase, and especially your AD are garbage and richly deserve your record this year and the national thug image you exceptionally below average individuals have created for yourselves. I may have to go to grassy and blow off some steam. Sorry for the rant. :pissed: You may return to your Turkey sandwiches now.....

Kudos to Coker, he was very classy, even funny. He might be happy to be away from the shitbag leadership down there...
 
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Anybody see Coker after the game last night when they asked him how he will recruit? He said he firmly believes that he'll be there next year and that's what he'll tell his kids.

What was it, 10 hours later? Not even?
 
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