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All good, amigo. You were on a roll. That wasn't me though. That was another poster. Though I see how once you read that, steam would come out of your ears and everything else would start to blur lol.

Tell me Coker didn't personally recruit and close Willie Williams! I dare you! He was all over Kyle Wright too. :) I'm not sticking up or defending Coker, I'm just being intellectually honest and delineating between "recruiting" and "evaluating." Unfortunately for Coker his weaknesses...

You realize you're agreeing with what I wrote, right? We're on the same page. Recruiting and talent evaluation are two very different things. You need to be good at both! Coker was able to get a lot of the top "list" guys. Huge names. Five stars. Look at my list. All puppy dogs and ice cream...

We can surely nitpick a few kids, especially the 2001 class who Butch fairly gets the vast majority of the credit for, but most those guys are 2002-2005 and even 2006. He was a list guy. His downfall, but he brought in highly rated (by dumb internet jock sniffers) classes.

Agree re: Gore. But Larry Coker was a very good recruiter (wait for it)! He signed highly ranked classes that everyone thought were full of studs. He landed many overall top 5 and 10 ranked kids, 5-stars, and high 4-star types that were recruited nationally by everyone like Kyle Wright, Greg...

From being ignored by some colleges because he was misdiagnosed with learning disabilities to a job in an NFL front office... what an incredible story. I'm so happy Miami believed in him all those years ago. Now imagine if he had decent knees.