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[StallionsModelT]

He is old, uncharasmatic, and left Miami in shambles. Larry Coker should not be under consideration IMO.

[J.T.supporta]

Coker would be a pathetic hire for SMU at this point. Rice and Tulsa didnt want him last year, why would we? And you cannot tell me we waited all this time to hire Larry Freakin Coker from the unemployment line. ridiculous. Turner Gill would be 10 times the better hire, as would several other guys including Barnett. Please tell me this is not true.

ENOUGH ALREADY WITH TURNER GILL.

tough crap. We should be throwing big money at Gill before we hire an old retread like Larry Coker.

Gills not leaving Buffalo, so enough

[BrianTinBigD]

An .800 winning percentage (60-15) in college head coaching. If this does not constitute a WOW, what would?

Some would call this a trend:

2001 Miami 12-0 7-0 1st W Rose Bowl † 1 1
2002 Miami 12-1 7-0 1st L Fiesta Bowl † 2 2
2003 Miami 11-2 6-1 1st W Orange Bowl † 5 5
Miami: 35-3 20-1
Miami Hurricanes (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2004 – 2006)
2004 Miami 9-3 5-3 W Peach Bowl 11 11
2005 Miami 9-3 6-2 L Peach Bowl 18 17
2006 Miami 7-6 3-5 W MPC Computers Bowl

A better look at the situation would also show that Miami actually had a much tougher time of things once they left the Big Waste and moved to the ACC. However, Coker was 3-0 against Florida and 5-2 against Florida State. Too many quality games in the ACC compared to the cream puff schedule they had of beating Va Tech for the Big East title every year.

Hold on. I think I am making a case for this guy. My bad. Coker sucks and he killed the Miami program. It will never be the same and is on a slippery slope on it's way to becoming Vandy.

[J.T.supporta]

He is old, uncharasmatic, and left Miami in shambles. Larry Coker should not be under consideration IMO.

well who out there is not old, charasmatic and didnt leave a program in shambles...???

[Texas Red]

Who is the best target that SMU can give a raise? I do not see that Coker is a current coach on this list?

# Coach Name School Age Conf. Compensation Contract
1
Charlie Weis
Notre Dame
51
Ind.
$4,000,000
2
2
Bob Stoops
Oklahoma
47
Big 12
$3,620,000

3
Nick Saban
Alabama
56
SEC
$3,503,000

4
Urban Meyer
Florida
43
SEC
$3,384,000


5
Kirk Ferentz
Iowa
52
Big 10
$3,030,000

6
Bobby Petrino Arkansas 46 SEC $2,850,000
7
Pete Carroll
USC
56
Pac 10
$2,795,000
2
8
Mack Brown
Texas 56 Big 12 $2,751,000
9
Rich Rodriguez
Michigan
44
ACC
$2,750,000
1
10
Tommy Tuberville
Auburn
53
SEC
$2,625,000

11
Jim Tressel
Ohio St.
55
Big 10
$2,367,000

12
Philip Fulmer
Tennessee
57
SEC
$2,050,000

13 Mark Richt
Georgia
47
SEC
$2,025,000

14
Frank Beamer
Virginia Tech
61
ACC
$2,008,000

15
Butch Davis N. Carolina 56 ACC $1.910,000
16
Al Groh
Virginia
63
ACC
$1,875,000

17
Les Miles LSU 54 SEC $1,816,000
18
Jeff Tedford
California
46
Pac 10
$1,805,000


19
Mike Sherman Texas A&M 53 Big 12 $1,800,000 1
20
Art Briles
Baylor
52
Big 12
$1,800,000
1
21
Steve Spurrier
South Carolina
62
SEC
$1,773,000

22
Joe Tiller
Purdue
65
Big 10
$1,764,000

23 Ralph Friedgen
Maryland
60
ACC
$1,750,000

24 Tommy Bowden
Clemson
53
ACC
$1,750,000

25 Greg Schiano
Rutgers
41
Big East
$1,734,000

26 Houston Nutt
Ole Miss
50
SEC
$1,700,000
1
27 Bobby Bowden
Florida St.
78
ACC
$1,696,000

28 Mike Leach
Texas Tech
46
Big 12
$1,662,000

29 Paul Johnson
Georgia Tech
50
ACC
$1,600,000
1
30 Bo Pelini Nebraska 40 Big 12 $1,600,000 1
31 Mark Mangino
Kansas
51
Big 12
$1,524,000


32 Joe Paterno Penn St. 81 Big 10 $1,500,000 3

33 Lloyd Carr
Michigan
62
Big 10
$1,483,000

34 Ty Willingham Washington 54 Pac 10 $1,470,000
35 Steve Kragthorpe Louisville 41 Big East $1,420,000
36 Bret Bielema
Wisconsin
37
Big 10
$1,395,000

37 Gary Pinkel
Missouri
55
Big 12
$1,320,000

38 Dennis Erickson
Arizona St.
60
Pac 10
$1,275,000

39 Ron Zook
Illinois
53
Big 10
$1,250,000

40 Pat Hill
Fresno St.
56
WAC
$1,230,000

41 Gary Patterson
TCU
47
MWC
$1,219,000
2
42 Mark Dantonio
Michigan St.
51
Big 10
$1,150,000

43 Todd Graham
Tulsa
42
CUSA
$1,100,000
1
44 Tom O'Brien
NC State
59
ACC
$1,100,000

45 George O'Leary
UCF
61
CUSA
$1,086,000

46 Rich Brooks
Kentucky
66
SEC
$1,056,000

47 Mike Bellotti
Oregon
57
Pac 10
$1,055,000
3
48 Greg Robinson
Syracuse
53
Big East
$1,054,000
2
49 Gene Chizik Iowa St. 44 Big 12 $1,025,000
50 Mike Stoops
Arizona
46
Pac 10
$1,025,000

51 Jim Grobe
Wake Forest
55
ACC
$1,021,000
2
52 Jim Leavitt
South Florida
51
Big East
$1,000,000

53 Randy Shannon Miami 40 ACC $1,000,000 2
54 Jeff Jagodzinski Boston College 44 ACC $1,000,000 1
55 Tim Brewster Minnesota 46 Big 10 $1,000,000
56 B. Mendenhall
BYU
40
MWC
$1,000,000
2
57 Paul Wulff Washington St. 40 Pac 10 $1,000,000 1
58 Sylvester Croom
Miss. St.
53
SEC
$975,000

59 Mike Gundy
Oklahoma St.
40
Big 12
$950,000

60 Dan Hawkins
Colorado
47
Big 12
$936,000

61 Tommy West
Memphis
53
CUSA
$931,000

62 Randy Edsall
Connecticut
50
Big East
$920,000

63 Mike Riley
Oregon St.
55
Pac 10
$885,000
3
64 Chris Peterson
Boise St.
43
WAC
$881,000

65 Brian Kelly
Cincinnati
46
Big East
$835,000

66 June Jones
Hawaii
54
WAC
$800,000

67 Larry Fedora Southern Miss 45 CUSA $800,000 1
68 Steve Fairchild Colorado State 49 MWC $800,000 1
69 Ron Prince
Kansas St.
38
Big 12
$755,000

70 Pat Fitzgerald
Northwestern
33
Big 10
$750,000
2
71 Bobby Johnson
Vanderbilt
57
SEC
$750,000
2
72 Jim Harbaugh Stanford 44 Pac 10 $750,000 2
73 Chuck Long
San Diego St.
44
MWC
$717,000

74 Dave Wannstedt
Pitt
55
Big East
$713,000
2

75 Kyle Whittingham
Utah
48
MWC
$678,000

76 Stan Brock
Army
48
Ind.
$650,000
2
77 Bob Toledo Tulane 60 CUSA $600,000 2
78 Troy Calhoun Air Force 40 MWC $572,000 2
79 Skip Holtz
East Carolina
43
CUSA
$560,000

80 Joe Glenn
Wyoming
58
MWC
$551,000

81 Mark Snyder Marshall 41 CUSA $470,000
82 Mike Price
UTEP
61
CUSA
$460,000

83 [deleted] Tomey San Jose St. 69 WAC $451,000 3
84 Rocky Long
New Mexico
57
MWC
$440,000

85 Mike Sanford
UNLV
52
MWC
$439,000

86 David Bailiff Rice 48 CUSA $400,000 2
87 Bill Lynch Indiana 52 Big 10 $393,000
88 Mario Cristobal Fla. Int'l. 38 Sun Belt $381,000
89 Chris Ault
Nevada
61
WAC
$368,000

90 Derek Dooley La. Tech. 39 WAC $350,000
91 Hal Mumme
N. Mexico St.
55
WAC
$349,000

92 H. Schnellenberger
Florida Atlantic
73
SunBelt
$331,000

93 Tom Amstutz
Toledo
52
MAC
$313,000

94 Al Golden
Temple
38
Ind.
$300,000
2
95 Neil Callaway
UAB
52
CUSA
$300,000
1
96 Larry Blakeney
Troy St.
60
SunBelt
$288,000

97 Rick Stockstill
Middle Tenn.
50
SunBelt
$283,000

98 Frank Solich
Ohio
63
MAC
$270,000

99 Bill Cubit
W. Michigan
54
SEC
$266,000

100 Butch Jones C. Michigan
38 MAC $265,000
101 Todd Dodge N. Texas 44 SunBelt $261,000
102 Brent Guy
Utah St.
46
WAC
$250,000

103 JD Brookhart
Akron
41
MAC
$244,000
3
104 Robb Akey Idaho 40 Pac 10 $240,000
105 Charlie Weatherbie La. Monroe 52 SunBelt $205,000
106 Ricky Bustle
La. Lafayette
45
SunBelt
$196,000

107 Jeff Genyk
E. Michigan
47
MAC
$196,000

108 Turner Gill
Buffalo
45
MAC
$191,000

109 Gregg Brandon Bowling Green 51 MAC $184,000
110 David Elson W. Kentucky 36 Ind. $180,000 3
111 Steve Roberts
Arkansas St.
43
SunBelt
$171,000

112 Brady Hoke
Ball St.
49
MAC
$170,000

113 Doug Martin
Kent St.
44
MAC
$170,000

114 Shane Montgomery
Miami, Ohio
40
MAC
$144,000

[Hoop Fan]

Coker would be a pathetic hire for SMU at this point. Rice and Tulsa didnt want him last year, why would we? And you cannot tell me we waited all this time to hire Larry Freakin Coker from the unemployment line. ridiculous. Turner Gill would be 10 times the better hire, as would several other guys including Barnett. Please tell me this is not true.

ENOUGH ALREADY WITH TURNER GILL.

tough crap. We should be throwing big money at Gill before we hire an old retread like Larry Coker.

Gills not leaving Buffalo, so enough

whatever, everybody has a price. Better offer Gill $2 mil per year before you hire Coker and ruin this program beyond repair if its not already there.

[J.T.supporta]

An .800 winning percentage (60-15) in college head coaching. If this does not constitute a WOW, what would?

Some would call this a trend:

2001 Miami 12-0 7-0 1st W Rose Bowl † 1 1
2002 Miami 12-1 7-0 1st L Fiesta Bowl † 2 2
2003 Miami 11-2 6-1 1st W Orange Bowl † 5 5
Miami: 35-3 20-1
Miami Hurricanes (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2004 – 2006)
2004 Miami 9-3 5-3 W Peach Bowl 11 11
2005 Miami 9-3 6-2 L Peach Bowl 18 17
2006 Miami 7-6 3-5 W MPC Computers Bowl

A better look at the situation would also show that Miami actually had a much tougher time of things once they left the Big Waste and moved to the ACC. However, Coker was 3-0 against Florida and 5-2 against Florida State. Too many quality games in the ACC compared to the cream puff schedule they had of beating Va Tech for the Big East title every year.

Hold on. I think I am making a case for this guy. My bad. Coker sucks and he killed the Miami program. It will never be the same and is on a slippery slope on it's way to becoming Vandy.

if you look at it like that, you can just turn a blind eye and say the ACC was to blame for the U's downfall...thats what im kind of doing...

but i still belieave LC is a great coach

[J.T.supporta]

Who is the best target that SMU can give a raise? I do not see that Coker is a current coach on this list?

# Coach Name School Age Conf. Compensation Contract
1
Charlie Weis
Notre Dame
51
Ind.
$4,000,000
2
2
Bob Stoops
Oklahoma
47
Big 12
$3,620,000

3
Nick Saban
Alabama
56
SEC
$3,503,000

4
Urban Meyer
Florida
43
SEC
$3,384,000


5
Kirk Ferentz
Iowa
52
Big 10
$3,030,000

6
Bobby Petrino Arkansas 46 SEC $2,850,000
7
Pete Carroll
USC
56
Pac 10
$2,795,000
2
8
Mack Brown
Texas 56 Big 12 $2,751,000
9
Rich Rodriguez
Michigan
44
ACC
$2,750,000
1
10
Tommy Tuberville
Auburn
53
SEC
$2,625,000

11
Jim Tressel
Ohio St.
55
Big 10
$2,367,000

12
Philip Fulmer
Tennessee
57
SEC
$2,050,000

13 Mark Richt
Georgia
47
SEC
$2,025,000

14
Frank Beamer
Virginia Tech
61
ACC
$2,008,000

15
Butch Davis N. Carolina 56 ACC $1.910,000
16
Al Groh
Virginia
63
ACC
$1,875,000

17
Les Miles LSU 54 SEC $1,816,000
18
Jeff Tedford
California
46
Pac 10
$1,805,000


19
Mike Sherman Texas A&M 53 Big 12 $1,800,000 1
20
Art Briles
Baylor
52
Big 12
$1,800,000
1
21
Steve Spurrier
South Carolina
62
SEC
$1,773,000

22
Joe Tiller
Purdue
65
Big 10
$1,764,000

23 Ralph Friedgen
Maryland
60
ACC
$1,750,000

24 Tommy Bowden
Clemson
53
ACC
$1,750,000

25 Greg Schiano
Rutgers
41
Big East
$1,734,000

26 Houston Nutt
Ole Miss
50
SEC
$1,700,000
1
27 Bobby Bowden
Florida St.
78
ACC
$1,696,000

28 Mike Leach
Texas Tech
46
Big 12
$1,662,000

29 Paul Johnson
Georgia Tech
50
ACC
$1,600,000
1
30 Bo Pelini Nebraska 40 Big 12 $1,600,000 1
31 Mark Mangino
Kansas
51
Big 12
$1,524,000


32 Joe Paterno Penn St. 81 Big 10 $1,500,000 3

33 Lloyd Carr
Michigan
62
Big 10
$1,483,000

34 Ty Willingham Washington 54 Pac 10 $1,470,000
35 Steve Kragthorpe Louisville 41 Big East $1,420,000
36 Bret Bielema
Wisconsin
37
Big 10
$1,395,000

37 Gary Pinkel
Missouri
55
Big 12
$1,320,000

38 Dennis Erickson
Arizona St.
60
Pac 10
$1,275,000

39 Ron Zook
Illinois
53
Big 10
$1,250,000

40 Pat Hill
Fresno St.
56
WAC
$1,230,000

41 Gary Patterson
TCU
47
MWC
$1,219,000
2
42 Mark Dantonio
Michigan St.
51
Big 10
$1,150,000

43 Todd Graham
Tulsa
42
CUSA
$1,100,000
1
44 Tom O'Brien
NC State
59
ACC
$1,100,000

45 George O'Leary
UCF
61
CUSA
$1,086,000

46 Rich Brooks
Kentucky
66
SEC
$1,056,000

47 Mike Bellotti
Oregon
57
Pac 10
$1,055,000
3
48 Greg Robinson
Syracuse
53
Big East
$1,054,000
2
49 Gene Chizik Iowa St. 44 Big 12 $1,025,000
50 Mike Stoops
Arizona
46
Pac 10
$1,025,000

51 Jim Grobe
Wake Forest
55
ACC
$1,021,000
2
52 Jim Leavitt
South Florida
51
Big East
$1,000,000

53 Randy Shannon Miami 40 ACC $1,000,000 2
54 Jeff Jagodzinski Boston College 44 ACC $1,000,000 1
55 Tim Brewster Minnesota 46 Big 10 $1,000,000
56 B. Mendenhall
BYU
40
MWC
$1,000,000
2
57 Paul Wulff Washington St. 40 Pac 10 $1,000,000 1
58 Sylvester Croom
Miss. St.
53
SEC
$975,000

59 Mike Gundy
Oklahoma St.
40
Big 12
$950,000

60 Dan Hawkins
Colorado
47
Big 12
$936,000

61 Tommy West
Memphis
53
CUSA
$931,000

62 Randy Edsall
Connecticut
50
Big East
$920,000

63 Mike Riley
Oregon St.
55
Pac 10
$885,000
3
64 Chris Peterson
Boise St.
43
WAC
$881,000

65 Brian Kelly
Cincinnati
46
Big East
$835,000

66 June Jones
Hawaii
54
WAC
$800,000

67 Larry Fedora Southern Miss 45 CUSA $800,000 1
68 Steve Fairchild Colorado State 49 MWC $800,000 1
69 Ron Prince
Kansas St.
38
Big 12
$755,000

70 Pat Fitzgerald
Northwestern
33
Big 10
$750,000
2
71 Bobby Johnson
Vanderbilt
57
SEC
$750,000
2
72 Jim Harbaugh Stanford 44 Pac 10 $750,000 2
73 Chuck Long
San Diego St.
44
MWC
$717,000

74 Dave Wannstedt
Pitt
55
Big East
$713,000
2

75 Kyle Whittingham
Utah
48
MWC
$678,000

76 Stan Brock
Army
48
Ind.
$650,000
2
77 Bob Toledo Tulane 60 CUSA $600,000 2
78 Troy Calhoun Air Force 40 MWC $572,000 2
79 Skip Holtz
East Carolina
43
CUSA
$560,000

80 Joe Glenn
Wyoming
58
MWC
$551,000

81 Mark Snyder Marshall 41 CUSA $470,000
82 Mike Price
UTEP
61
CUSA
$460,000

83 [deleted] Tomey San Jose St. 69 WAC $451,000 3
84 Rocky Long
New Mexico
57
MWC
$440,000

85 Mike Sanford
UNLV
52
MWC
$439,000

86 David Bailiff Rice 48 CUSA $400,000 2
87 Bill Lynch Indiana 52 Big 10 $393,000
88 Mario Cristobal Fla. Int'l. 38 Sun Belt $381,000
89 Chris Ault
Nevada
61
WAC
$368,000

90 Derek Dooley La. Tech. 39 WAC $350,000
91 Hal Mumme
N. Mexico St.
55
WAC
$349,000

92 H. Schnellenberger
Florida Atlantic
73
SunBelt
$331,000

93 Tom Amstutz
Toledo
52
MAC
$313,000

94 Al Golden
Temple
38
Ind.
$300,000
2
95 Neil Callaway
UAB
52
CUSA
$300,000
1
96 Larry Blakeney
Troy St.
60
SunBelt
$288,000

97 Rick Stockstill
Middle Tenn.
50
SunBelt
$283,000

98 Frank Solich
Ohio
63
MAC
$270,000

99 Bill Cubit
W. Michigan
54
SEC
$266,000

100 Butch Jones C. Michigan
38 MAC $265,000
101 Todd Dodge N. Texas 44 SunBelt $261,000
102 Brent Guy
Utah St.
46
WAC
$250,000

103 JD Brookhart
Akron
41
MAC
$244,000
3
104 Robb Akey Idaho 40 Pac 10 $240,000
105 Charlie Weatherbie La. Monroe 52 SunBelt $205,000
106 Ricky Bustle
La. Lafayette
45
SunBelt
$196,000

107 Jeff Genyk
E. Michigan
47
MAC
$196,000

108 Turner Gill
Buffalo
45
MAC
$191,000

109 Gregg Brandon Bowling Green 51 MAC $184,000
110 David Elson W. Kentucky 36 Ind. $180,000 3
111 Steve Roberts
Arkansas St.
43
SunBelt
$171,000

112 Brady Hoke
Ball St.
49
MAC
$170,000

113 Doug Martin
Kent St.
44
MAC
$170,000

114 Shane Montgomery
Miami, Ohio
40
MAC
$144,000

post the LINK next time instead of this wasted of [deleted] you copied and pasted

[EastStang]

While I would prefer Barnett over Coker, it would be an okay hire. We could and have done worse. Why has it taken so long for us to interview Coker? Didn't Miami have some NCAA type problems while Coker was coach? It seems to me that there was some shopping trip to a shoe store or something like that?

[J.T.supporta]

Coker would be a pathetic hire for SMU at this point. Rice and Tulsa didnt want him last year, why would we? And you cannot tell me we waited all this time to hire Larry Freakin Coker from the unemployment line. ridiculous. Turner Gill would be 10 times the better hire, as would several other guys including Barnett. Please tell me this is not true.

ENOUGH ALREADY WITH TURNER GILL.

tough crap. We should be throwing big money at Gill before we hire an old retread like Larry Coker.

Gills not leaving Buffalo, so enough

whatever, everybody has a price. Better offer Gill $2 mil per year before you hire Coker and ruin this program beyond repair if its not already there.

id rather hire a proven coach, especially if he has a NC on his resume instead of a coach that hasnt done that much in his young career. not a knock on Gill but i dont want to wasted 7 more years watching a team stay in the gutter

[Billy Joe]

Coker did not leave Miami in shambles. Miami is not a good team right now for two reasons: 1) no qb and 2) they lose a lot of players to the NFL and have to rebuild. Most on this board are delusional. We are SMU. The same SMU that has had only 1 winning season in 20 years. SMU interviews a coach who has won a National Championship and you are complaining about it......ggggeeezzz.

[Stallion]

This is such an awful, bad, ridiculous choice that I think its a scam to make the real choice look more appealing.

[SmooBoy]

What's humorous to me is that Stallion (and others) would rather have a high school coach than one who has won the National Championship. I'm sure the Miami players just coached themselves to the title that year. Almost won it by themselves the next year as well, but got screwed over (controversial, I know).

Only at SMU. I guess bring on Scooter Smith from WE R. High.

[ebrooks11]

What I find funny is when someone mentioned the possiblity of Butch Davis coming here early in this search everyone thought that would be a brilliant move and he would be a savior. And now there is talk of Larry Coker who took kids that Butch couldnt win a NC with and won one and should have won 2 if it werent for officiating and he would be a bad hire.

[Peruna8891]

BillyJoe, Dead on!

Not my first choice (then again Orsini didn't asked me), and LC is definitely a significant trade up. He might retire in 2 years, but he probably won't use us as a stepping stone.