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Miami football national championship coach Larry Coker was left off of ESPN’s top 25 coaching hires of the last 25 years.
Despite winning a national championship following the 2001 season and losing in the BCS Championship game the following season after a questionable call on what should have been the final play of the game, former Miami football coach Larry Coker was snubbed by ESPN’s list of the best coaching hires of the last 25 years.
Coker has often been under-appreciated even by those that follow the Miami football program because he took over a plethora of talent from his predecessor Butch Davis.