Cooper leaving USC for LSU job
By Travis Haney
COLUMBIA — COLUMBIA South Carolina's most tenured assistant coach has moved on for another SEC school.
Sources confirmed Monday afternoon that Ron Cooper, with the Gamecocks since Lou Holtz's final year in 2004, will become Louisiana State's new secondary coach.
He will make $300,000 to work under new coordinator John Chavis, sources said. Cooper made $175,000 here.
Cooper coached the Gamecocks' safeties in 2008. He was the secondary coach and assistant head coach in 2006 and 2007.
He was USC's special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach in 2005, Spurrier's first year.
Cooper coached the secondary in Holtz's final season at South Carolina.
Years earlier, Holtz hired Cooper as a Notre Dame assistant in 1991.
Cooper then went on to become a head coach at Eastern Michigan and Louisville.
In the days nearing the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl, Cooper had contact with LSU and Maryland, which has a defensive coordinator opening.
Cooper knows Tigers coach Les Miles from when Miles was at Michigan and Cooper was at Eastern Michigan. They were neighbors in an Ann Arbor-area subdivision.
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