Deante Burton has never met Larry Coker, but the Kansas State receiver knows every pertinent fact about the coach his team will face on Saturday in San Antonio.
Coker won a national championship with Miami, Burton says, and he fell one controversial penalty flag short of winning two. He has won nearly 70 percent of the time as a coach, he has served as an assistant at Ohio State and Oklahoma and he has coached 26 All-Americans.
“I don’t know about the man personally, but I know he was on ESPN’s ‘30 for 30: The U,’” Burton said.