College Football Coaches as Star Wars Characters
Larry Coker: Count Dooku
Honestly, these are two guys we forget about in their respective fields.
Larry Coker did not lose a game his first 24 games as a head coach with the Miami Hurricanes in 2001 and 2002 and should have won back-to-back national championships. In fact, he had the talent to win three straight national championships.
But he was fired in 2006 and forgotten about.
Meanwhile, Count Dooku as a villain started off as a major danger who was able to take on the best of the Jedi and even held his own with Master Yoda. But at the start of Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker killed him relatively easily, sending him into irrelevance.
They also can be mentioned in the same sentence because, simply by being head coach of the Miami Hurricanes, Larry Coker made was officially a villain. But he never did anything to make you hate him.
By the same token, Count Dooku was technically a villain, but come on. He was just there to pass the time until we got to see Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader. It’s a big reason the Prequels were so bad. You couldn’t really hate the villains, but you were supposed to simply because of the fact that they were villains.
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