Coker joins Larry Blakeney (Troy), Jim Carlen (West Virginia, Texas Tech, South Carolina), Pete Cawthon (Austin College, Texas Tech), Billy Jack Murphy (Memphis), Gary Pinkel (Toledo, Missouri) and Darryl Rogers (Cal State East Bay, Fresno State, San Jose State, Michigan State, Arizona State) as Football Bowl Subdivision coaches on the ballot, which also includes 78 FBS players, as well as 99 players and 33 coaches from the divisional ranks.
The ballot was emailed to the more than 12,000 NFF members and current Hall of Famers whose votes will be tabulated and submitted to the NFF's Honors Courts, which will deliberate and select the class. The FBS Honors Court, chaired by NFF Board Member and College Football Hall of Famer Archie Griffin from Ohio State, and the Divisional Honors Court, chaired by former Marshall head coach, longtime athletics director and NFF Board Member Jack Lengyel, include an elite and geographically diverse pool of athletic administrators, Hall of Famers and members of the media.
Hired on March 6, 2009, to start the UTSA football program from scratch, Coker turned the Roadrunners into one of the most successful startup programs of the modern era. Following a practice season in 2010, UTSA made national headlines starting with the inaugural game when an NCAA startup program-record 56,743 fans filed into the Alamodome on Sept. 3, 2011, to watch the Roadrunners hand Northeastern State — Coker's alma mater — a 31-3 defeat. UTSA went on to average 35,521 fans for six home games during a 4-6 debut season with a team composed of largely freshmen and sophomore.
Under Coker's leadership, the Roadrunners doubled their win total in year two, posting an 8-4 overall record and finishing fourth behind three bowl-eligible teams in the Western Athletic Conference with a 3-3 mark in 2012. UTSA, which was in its first year of reclassifying to FBS and not eligible to play in a bowl game, led the WAC in average home attendance (29,226) that fall.
Coker's UTSA squad made a splash in its debut season as a member of Conference USA in 2013. The Roadrunners reeled off five straight wins to end the campaign and finish with a 7-5 overall record against a schedule that included seven bowl teams. UTSA was in contention for the C-USA West Division crown entering the final week of the season and finished second with a 6-2 league ledger. The young program also continued to compile impressive attendance numbers by averaging 29,214 fans in six home games, which ranked second in C-USA.
Coker guided the Roadrunners to several more key victories over his final two seasons at the helm, including a 27-7 upset of Houston in the 2014 season opener on national television in the first game played at the Cougars' TDECU Stadium. The Okemah, Okla., native coached UTSA's first All-American and NFL draft pick in tight end David Morgan II, the program's first NFL first-round selection and three-time all-conference performer Marcus Davenport, Jim Thorpe Award semifinalist and three-time all-league safety Triston Wade and several future NFL players including Ashaad Mabry, Jason Neill, Bennett Okotcha, Brian Price, Kevin Strong Jr., Dalton Sturm and Jarveon Williams during his time in San Antonio.
The head coach at Miami (Fla.) from 2001 to 2006, Coker posted a 60-15 record (.800) in six seasons, including wins in his first 24 games (first coach since Walter Camp in 1888-89 to do so) in Coral Gables. He led the Hurricanes to the 2001 National Championship in his first season, becoming just the second coach in NCAA history to do so and the first in 53 years.
Coker was a two-time National Coach of the Year (2001-02), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Region Coach of the Year (2001, '05) and Big East Coach of the Year (2001-02) honoree. He led the Hurricanes to a pair of Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title game appearances, three BCS bowl games, a total of six bowl contests overall and three consecutive Big East Conference Championships from 2001-03 during his tenure.
Coker finished his head coaching career with a record of 86-47 (.647) and he mentored more than 25 All-Americans, nearly 100 first-team all-conference selections and more than 90 academic all-conference honorees. He was inducted into both the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and Miami Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.
The announcement of the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be made in early 2022, with specific details to be announced in the future.
The 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class will be officially inducted during the 64th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 6, 2022, and permanently immortalized at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. They will also be honored at their respective schools with an NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute, presented by Fidelity Investments, during the 2022 season.
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