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
gotta
I told them we gotta get a lot better. There were a lot of mistakes, some off the snaps, too many penalties.
schedule
It is what it is. Again, it's not my preference, but we take the schedule as it comes.
definitely quality
It's not so much numbers, it's the quality you get. I think we definitely got quality.
decision definitely hard high personally standards tough work
For me, it's definitely personally a very tough decision. But it's a decision I think had to be made. ... We have high standards here, high standards are set and I think we have to work hard to live up to those standards.
easy guys
It's not easy to do what these guys do,
handed obvious tonight
It's pretty obvious tonight we got it handed to us.
football missed team tells
Derrick hasn't missed anything. He's on time, he conscientious, he works. That tells me something. And it tells our football team something.
beauty drafted few last obviously ohio players
That's really the beauty of football. Just a few players make the difference. You look at Ohio State, they had 14 players drafted last year. Obviously they had some difference-makers on that team.
looking
That's something we're looking for. We need some big plays.
excellent pressure
It wasn't all his fault. They put excellent pressure on him all day long.
annual attitude everybody finish good hopefully ready spring stay tomorrow
It was a good finish for us. This has been an outstanding spring. We'll have a good finish tomorrow in the annual spring game, and hopefully everybody will stay healthy. Everybody has a good attitude and they're ready for Saturday.
bad looked seen stayed
I've done that and I've seen it on tape. I looked really bad so I stayed away from it.
ahead defense expected football good obviously offense teaching work
It was a good day for us. Obviously the defense is ahead of the offense at this time, which we expected that. There is some good teaching out here and we have a lot to work on to be a good football team.
accurate miss
That probably is accurate . . . We're going to miss Anthony Reddick.