Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Cooper
He was a three-year starter at a major college program (Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma) in the Bowl Championship Series|BCS, and was recognized by one of the top BCS conferences twice, which is no small feat. He started on the national championship runner-up team last season, and started on a team in a BCS bowl all three years. It's generally a safe bet that someone with a resume like that is going to pass  through media coverage, even at an unglamorous position like center (American football)|center: http://oklahoma.scout.com/a.z?s=146&p=2&c=865760&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2foklahoma.scout.com%2fa.z%3fs%3d146%26p%3d2%26c%3d865760 Scout.com, http://oklahoma.scout.com/a.z?s=146&p=2&c=461994&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2foklahoma.scout.com%2f2%2f461994.html Scout.com, http://texastech.scout.com/a.z?s=188&p=2&c=827526&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2ftexastech.scout.com%2fa.z%3fs%3d188%26p%3d2%26c%3d827526 Scout, http://iowa.scout.com/a.z?s=8&p=2&c=292601&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2fiowa.scout.com%2f2%2f292601.html Scout, http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=OKC0000020060914e29d0000p ''The Oklahoman'', http://www.sportingnews.com/cfootball/articles/20071129/966865-p.html ''The Sporting News'', http://www.rivals.com/content.asp?cid=812385 Rivals.com, http://www.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?ReturnTo=&sid=&script=content.asp&cid=860889&fid=&tid=&mid=&rid= Rivals, http://www.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?ReturnTo=&sid=&script=content.asp&cid=840593&fid=&tid=&mid=&rid= Rivals, http://www.normantranscript.com/sports/local_story_070001125.html ''The Norman Transcript'', http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_staples/01/07/ou.line/?cnn=yes ''Sports Illustrated'', http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-17416262_ITM ''The Tulsa World'', http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/19/fort-collins-cooper-bulks-combine/ ''Rocky Mountain News'', http://newsok.com/article/3173358/1196012387 ''The Oklahoman'', http://newsok.com/article/2976711/ ''The Oklahoman'', http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DP&p_theme=dp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1258EAB2A2BE0B00&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM ''The Denver Post'', http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-17573055_ITM ''The Financial Times'', etc. That's after sorting through half of http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22jon+cooper%22+oklahoma&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=us&um=1&sa=N&start=110 these Google News hits
— User:Strikehold, 22:28, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)