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Hard to believe Coker's 4 year old team is better coached

OMG618 said:
mavericksouth said:
Contrary to popular belief, Larry Coker is not a bad football coach. On gameday, his teams were always prepared to play. Coker's problems were he couldn't recruit and expectations were so **** high, based on what Butch built, that he couldn't keep up with the pace. He was better than these last two bums (Radio and Fat Albert).
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Ugh, no.
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This. Some revisionist history going on here. I was on the boards in the late 90s and Coker used to get ripped constantly over his conservative play calling. Where do you think the "Coker T" came from?

Smh
 
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I have no doubt that Golden would do well at UTSA. Bigtime football is a totally different animal. Pressure/expectations make a huge difference. Coker did idiotic **** here to.
 
Coker's biggest problem was that he was a "nice guy player's coach". He had no control over the team at all. Worse, he lost control over his staff too. Way too many hot heads and big egos on the staff, many of which didn't respect him. And the more people he brought in, the worse the situation got. Coker was the kind of guy that would have been a great Assistant HC/Coordinator, but on a team with so many huge Egos and personalities, and a staff with so many egos and strong personalities, he totally lost control of everything.

His recruiting also really fell apart the last few years. Way too much "star chasing" and not recruiting for needs and doing actual player evaluations.

For whatever you can say about AG, they seem to actually evaluate players and find some decent ones. Coker was recruiting off Alan Wallace and Max Emfinger lists and the program went into a nosedive.
 
UTSA is statistically the least experienced and youngest program in the NCAA according to ESPN. And they are rapidly rising. Their offense is already better than ours.
 
Will say this...seems like Coker has been adaptable. I.E. he ran a pro style set at Miami, but it looks like his team is more Spread based at UTSA. Gotta be nimble in this world or you will fail.
 
mavericksouth said:
Contrary to popular belief, Larry Coker is not a bad football coach. On gameday, his teams were always prepared to play. Coker's problems were he couldn't recruit and expectations were so **** high, based on what Butch built, that he couldn't keep up with the pace. He was better than these last two bums (Radio and Fat Albert).
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Your Coker/Gameday statement is an absurd, sir. How many games did we lose to inferior opponents? Off the top of my head, OSU 02, GT 2003, VT 2003, Tennessee 2003, UNC 2004, Louisville 2006, Clemson 2004, GT 2005, 2006, Maryland 2006. Additionally, we didn't win in impressive fashion either.
 
Larry really had the team prepared for Ohio State didn't he. We almost lost to BC and VaTech in our championship year, even with overwhelming talent because of his great preparation. Please quit trying to rewrite history.
 
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would we beat UTSA? I really think if we played 10 times we win 7 and they win 3. I mean Arizona would hang 40 points on our defense and Larry and his boys hung tight.
 
I understand we played poorly on Monday vs Louisville, and I am ****ed too, but for ****'s sake stop acting like UTSA is better or Coker should come back.

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canesupremacy said:
UTSA has 30 seniors that got recruited to a team that never existed. They started as FCS athletes with no red shirting for them. They have done quite well. UTSA is a straight up commuter school
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UTSA has around 30k students. Over 5k live on campus and over 20k live within 5 miles. That is not a "commuter school"
 
does he still clap for 2 minutes after his team turns the ball over or commits a dumb penalty?
 
He never should have been put in that position (HC at Miami). It was an awful decision and it started the downward spiral of this program. With that said, I'm glad to see him doing well and he was a better coach than Shannon or Golden, which isn't saying much.
 
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