They named career-long assistant Larry Coker head coach. Miami, Orlando, Hobe Sound, Clearwater and Fort Myers. This day Coker is at the Belleview Biltmore for golf and a few hundred handshakes. Coker said, rubbing his head. Coker is 52 and long ago admitted defeat in a fight against male pattern baldness.
Dark eyes sit deep in a face of character lines.
At first glance, Coker looks like your neighbor from across the street who's a high school teacher, not a major college football coach. He's comes across way too normal for that. Maybe that should tell us something. Whatever the secret, the UM offensive coordinator for six years has had the greatest success a coach could without playing a game. Coker didn't just salvage Miami's recruiting season, he somehow expanded it.