I like the hire. Cooper has LOTS of experience. Our coverage/secondary should be better next year. Let's hope it's MUCH better. :crystal::geaux::crystal::geaux::crystal:
Comments from South Carolina's rivals.com discussion board on the loss of Cooper to LSU: Just lost one of our best coaches. Losing Coach Cooper hurts We lost a good one in Cooper, but life must go on. If giving asst.coaches multi-year contracts is the going thing, should we start doing this? Losing good coaches to more money is not the way to do it. If it takes multi-year contracts, we need to do it if others SEC schools are. Cooper has done a good job recruiting for us Ron Cooper was probably the very best position coach on staff. Just look at the production he's gotten out of the defensive secondary over the years, even when he's had to take underrated talent and coach them up. Best d-backs coach we have ever or may ever have. Cooper has been a great coach for us. I am appreciative of his contribution to our team and wish him very well. DBs have been a strength of the USC defense since he has been here. He was a very good coach. Cooper is a very well respected DB coach....just like the strength coach we lost too. We have lost some really good coaches over the last several years. We have 1 national title in our great history..in equestrian LSU has 43 national titles in 9 sports..I'd take 1/4 of those for our athletics department..
What big bucks? Tenn was offering 300K. GA matched it and the issue was over. If they offered to double his pay, like we did Cooper, he would have gone in a heart beat. A small raise isnt enough to make Garner move. His wife would only move for a substantial pay raise and Tenn couldn't justify much more because of Orgerons presence. They coach the same position and accommodations would have to be made.
Cooper gave up a chance at a DC position at a BCS school to join the LSU staff. "So strong was the impression made by Miles and the LSU program that Cooper eschewed a chance to go to another BCS school as a defensive coordinator. Cooper was set to fly to College Park, Md., to meet with Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen Monday about the Terrapins’ coordinator position. But a job offer from Miles made that trip unnecessary." http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/37251374.html
I bet Marylands DC was making less than LSU just paid Cooper, probably a lot less and no 3 year contract. Money talks...as usual.
Not at all. Marylands DC made 151K last year on a one year contract. Cooper elects to go for the gold instead of a chance of advancement being the DC at a BCS school. No biggie really, just the way it is. Any assistant would do the same given the opportunity to earn a guaranteed 900K.
