Larry Coker
Larry Coker
Larry Edward Cokeris an American football coach and former player. From 2001 to 2006, Coker served as the head coach at the University of Miami. His 2001 Miami team was named the consensus national champion after an undefeated season that culminated with a victory in the Rose Bowl over Nebraska. In the process of winning the championship, Coker became the 2nd head coach since 1948 to win the national championship in his first season.Coker was fired by Miami on November...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 June 1948
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As a university, as a football program, we don't condone any type of activities such as that. Certainly, I think, that detracts from a great bowl game and what the spirit of college football is all about.
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Art is an important part of living. We hold these shows in the odd-numbered years as a service to the community and to encourage the love of arts, crafts and hobbies.
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This is a private, in-house matter and I will have no further comment. We will now move forward with our preparations for the Georgia Tech game on Saturday.
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Special teams really hurt us. We've been very good on special teams the last few years. Obviously, we weren't very good against Florida State.
definitely team work
Definitely some things have been improved. But without question, we've got a lot we can work on and we've got to get a lot better to be the team that we want to be.
decision heat
Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.
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A fifth-year senior quarterback cannot give the opponent a touchdown before the half. That's totally a foolish play we can't have.
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This is a disturbing development, ... and could potentially be very damaging to college football, especially the recruiting process.
tight turn
I thought they were going to turn me into a tight end,
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I thought they were going to turn me into a tight end. I can't wait. Shoot, I was hurt the first week of camp. I haven't really played since last spring.
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I think we're better than we're playing. What that potential is, I don't know. I think our receivers are good enough. We're not playing as well as we can and I think we've got to give them more opportunities to get them in the flow and get them playing better.
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I think we're going to be good at that position. But to say anybody's really stepped up and made us say, 'This guy is a great player,' I really haven't seen that, no.
I think we do have the better team, but we have to play better.
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I think we did have a little edge, ... We took it a little personal. I don't think people gave us much of a chance to win.