Miami fired Larry Coker

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cotton said:
I doubt top tier teams will be lining up outside his door for a chance to get his resume. The guy managed great Miami teams adequately in '01 and '02. Since then, it has been a linear drop-off every year. The bottom line is that he has produced a notable lack of success in one of the easiest programs in the country to have success.
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2001 - 12-0 (National Champions)
2002 - 12-1 (Lost in BCS NC Game)
2003 - 11-2
2004 - 9-3
2005 - 9-3
2006 - 6-6

If this is the definition of a lack of success, then Fulmer should have been canned years ago.
 
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Vol423 said:
If this is the definition of a lack of success, then Fulmer should have been canned years ago.
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It is the definition of decline.

Spin your agenda however you like, but a 6 year coach whose program has produced less success every year he has been there is not the same as a 15 year coach who grew a good program to national championship levels followed by 8 seasons of not being able to equal that success.

There are some legitimate points that have been made about UT's lack of success over the past several seasons. Fulmer=Coker isn't one of them.
 
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cotton said:
It is the definition of decline.

Spin your agenda however you like, but a 6 year coach whose program has produced less success every year he has been there is not the same as a 15 year coach who grew a good program to national championship levels followed by 8 seasons of not being able to equal that success.

There are some legitimate points that have been made about UT's lack of success over the past several seasons. Fulmer=Coker isn't one of them.
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You're correct. There is no comparison between the two of them. Coker is a far better coach than Fulmer. In Coker's 6-year stint at Miami he compiled a better winning percentage than Fulmer, and he won the same number of national championships in 6 years that Fulmer has won in 15 years while also making another appearance in the national championship game. Despite having an additional 9 years as a head coach, Fulmer has not been able to accomplish that. Unlike Fulmer, Coker also has zero losing seasons.
 
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Vol423 said:
Coker is a far better coach than Fulmer.
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Despite your faulty logic, on this point we will just have to disagree.

I don't think there are many people in the football world who believe that a trained monkey would not have made a national title run with that '01 Miami team. An untrained monkey could have been runner-up with his team in '02. And to compare winning percentages with Miami in the Big Least plus two years in the ACC is like comparing apples to, well, something that is a hell of a lot harder than apples. And Coker hasn't had a losing season because 1) he got to schedule FIU as the 12th game this year, 2) the ACC is not very good, and 3) he will only get the opportunity to coach for 6 years.

If you really believe that the guy who built Miami from a powerhouse to a .500 team is better than the coach we have now, there is not much I can do change your mind.

Just know that I think your opinion is silly.
 
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Vol423 said:
You're correct. There is no comparison between the two of them. Coker is a far better coach than Fulmer. In Coker's 6-year stint at Miami he compiled a better winning percentage than Fulmer, and he won the same number of national championships in 6 years that Fulmer has won in 15 years while also making another appearance in the national championship game. Despite having an additional 9 years as a head coach, Fulmer has not been able to accomplish that. Unlike Fulmer, Coker also has zero losing seasons.
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Give me a break. Randy Sanders is ten times the coach Larry Coker ever thought about being.
 
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