Hurricanes Promote Shannon to Head Coach

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Randy Shannon helped the Miami Hurricanes win three national championships. Now he'll try to reverse their decline.

Shannon, a former Hurricanes linebacker and their defensive coordinator since 2001, was chosen to replace Larry Coker as head coach and introduced at a news conference Friday. Miami fired Coker two weeks ago after the team finished the regular season 6-6, its worst record since 1997.

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Hurricanes Promote Shannon to Head Coach

The 40-year-old Shannon will become the sixth black head coach currently at one of the 119 Division I-A schools, joining Mississippi State's Sylvester Croom, UCLA's Karl Dorrell, Buffalo's Turner Gill, Kansas State's Ron...

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