Coker’s out at Miami. His first new line on his resume was the press conference: jovial, classy (we mean like Tony Bennett/David Niven/Nelson Mandela classy), and completely complimentary of his employers, the university, and his players. He came out of the thing beaming like someone had just buffed him with a fine chamois and applied the good bald-guy-wax-treatment to both his glossy pate and his reputation.

Now that they’ve finally gotten to run a coach out of town, Miami fans will now work to achieve their long-term goal of getting Al Pacino to coach the team, responding to any and all queries with lines from Any Given Sunday. Lamar Thomas, in between swings of the wife-bat, has been said to endorse this idea heartily.


It’s been painful, we know, Larry. But it’s done.