Report: LIU Hiring Alabama's Ron Cooper

[DFW HOYA]

"Under long-time head coach Bryan Collins, LIU won 8 or more games 10 times in 20 seasons before transitioning to division 1 status in the past few years. For the Sharks, the hiring of Cooper is a move that signals the school’s significant commitment to building a championship level division 1 program."

https://footballscoop.com/news/alabama-nick-saban-ron-cooper-long-island

[bonarae]

I think this move is 50-50 at best.

[caribbeanhen]

Championships? How come I’m LMAO right now

[acbearkat]

I wasn't even aware that Long Island even had a head coaching opening. I'm not sure this hire will go well. Cooper is a Southerner going to the Northeast. He'll have to hire a staff that has significant recruiting ties to the Northeast to be successful. I actually just read the article on Football Scoop.

[aceinthehole]

Championships? How come I’m LMAO right now

In fairness, it could simply mean (FCS) league championships. LIU-Post won in the NE-10 (D-II) and there is no reason to think they can't win the NEC sometime soon.

[walliver]

In 10 years as a head coach, he had 2 winning seasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Cooper_(American_football).
It looks like he is a competent assistant, but has struggled as a head coach (although nobody really does well at EMU or FIU).

[Bill]

I'm actually dying to know what LIU is paying to get someone to willingly leave Alabama and the SEC coaching carousel- although the analysts are more likely in the 50 - 100k range...

[caribbeanhen]

In fairness, it could simply mean (FCS) league championships. LIU-Post won in the NE-10 (D-II) and there is no reason to think they can't win the NEC sometime soon.

I agree

[acbearkat]

In 10 years as a head coach, he had 2 winning seasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Cooper_(American_football).
It looks like he is a competent assistant, but has struggled as a head coach (although nobody really does well at EMU or FIU).

Florida International is a significantly better job than Eastern Michigan.


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[Lehigh Football Nation]

I'd be less worried about the South/North thing and more worried that he hasn't remained at a school (head coach or assistant coach) for more than a three-year span at any stop.

[TheRevSFA]

He's definitely jumping the shark with this role.

[Libertine]

He's definitely jumping the shark with this role.

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[ccd494]

Florida International is a significantly better job than Eastern Michigan.


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Butch Davis just left FIU complaining that they had to buy used shoulder pads from Mississippi State to even equip the players. I'm not sure that's the case.

[caribbeanhen]

Butch Davis just left FIU complaining that they had to buy used shoulder pads from Mississippi State to even equip the players. I'm not sure that's the case.

He might of left FIU but did he leave Miami? Kind of nice in January

[acbearkat]

Butch Davis just left FIU complaining that they had to buy used shoulder pads from Mississippi State to even equip the players. I'm not sure that's the case.

When you talk about access to talent, Florida International is absolutely the better job.


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[Libertine]

When you talk about access to talent, Florida International is absolutely the better job.


This is relative to the talent that's available. South Florida is recruited so much by literally everyone that it increases the challenge of recruiting to a local school like FIU. Yes, there's a ton of good players that come out of the area but that also means that lower tier Florida schools have to work harder just to keep kids in state. If you're not FSU/UF/Miami/UCF -- if, in fact, you are FAU's broke cousin -- recruiting kids away from out-of-state P5 schools is impossible and beating out places like App St, Memphis, Marshall, etc., is a huge task by itself. The fact that FIU went 1-11 with 82 Florida players on the roster and Butch Davis as head coach tells you that FIU's Florida players still weren't good enough to beat the players from wherever ODU/Charlotte/Southern Miss was recruiting.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

LIU is serious about football. All those buy games will pay off.

[aceinthehole]

LIU is serious about football. All those buy games will pay off.

Not so sure. The buy games are needed to fund the program. Can't afford football without it.

Look at Wagner - 2 FBS games per year and they didn't win a game this year. Hard to build a program with 2 blowout losses guaranteed on the schedule.

[DFW HOYA]

Not so sure. The buy games are needed to fund the program. Can't afford football without it.

They probably can. Remember, some schools can't even get buy games.