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For Cooks to leave Notre Dame, the lure of home tugged at him hard

APR 27, 2015 12:38a ET

APR 27, 2015 12:38a ET

Leaving job as wide receivers coach at Notre Dame for the same position at Oklahoma might not have immediately seemed to make much sense.

But for Kerry Cooks, it got him a lot closer to home.

He hadn't really been anywhere close since he left his hometown of Irving, Texas, to play football at Iowa. A coaching odyssey that included four stops before he spent the past years at South Bend made it difficult for him to ever get home.