Larry Coker's Job security deathwatch

Re: Larry Coker deathwatch

Solid point. His record wasn't as good as this, but Jim Donnan might still be the coach at Georgia if he'd been able to collect a few more wins against Georgia Tech or Florida.

 

anyone who rips people on this thread for speculating about coker's job is kidding themselves. look, OF COURSE IT'S NOT FAIR TO FIRE THE GUY but that's the way it works down here. if you look at his 10 losses, you have to consider who he's lost to. just in the past two years, georgia tech and north carolina come to mind as games that were must wins. and the peach bowl was embarassing last year.

you can talk about wright all you want but miami no longer has the playmakers it used to have (the michael irvins, andre johnsons, reggie waynes, etc.) and that's on coker for failing to recruit. with his record, he'd have a lifetime contract at about 98 percent of division I schools, but whether you guys like it or not, the standards at miami are higher.

no, it's not fair to keep the standards that high. the only people you can blame are the people who set the standards, but that's reality.

 

Looking at their schedule, I don't think the Hurricanes will lose another game the rest of the year. 12-1 could very well get them to The Second Fucking Game in Glendale.

 

donnan's the opposite of nebraska -- he averaged 8 wins a year, but they fired him and hired a guy who wins 10 games a year.

 

A couple of thoughts:

1) This is why you schedule cupcakes at the beginning of the year.

2) As mentioned above, recruiting is way down under Coker, especially on offense. The shakeup last year, combined with an older coach with iffy job security can't bode well for the next year or two.

3) This is a school whose loyalty among fans is based solely on winning. UM isn't that big of a school and most fans at the OB are not alums.

 

Wow.

I was about to type the Butch line when I saw this post.

Freaky.

Also, there is a photo out there that shows Sharpe CLEARLY interfering on the play.

If I find it, I will post it.

 

Moddy, I lived down there for a few years and I was shocked at the lack of fan support. Unless it is FSU or UF, great tickets are easy to get.

 

A friend mine explained Miami's sports scene this way:

Miami is not a sports town. It's an event town.

With the exception of the Dolphins, fans down there will only turn out for "big" games, regardless of how successful the team is.

 

the other exception is if something becomes cool like the heat last year. i thought it was funny the first time i saw the notebook item in the maimi herald listing the celebrities in attendance but they did it for every single playoff game last year.

 

Worse than "Do you come here often?"