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LIU will receive $525,000 for playing the game, plus national exposure.

LIU coach Ron Cooper has experience coaching in the SEC.

Cooper aims for his team to win the turnover margin and make a play on special teams.

To prepare for its season opener against Florida football , Long Island University coach Ron Cooper wanted to simulate the crowd noise of the expected sellout of 90,000 at The Swamp.

One problem. There's a noise ordinance in Brookville, N.Y., the north shore Long Island town where the Sharks train. So, Cooper had to move a portion of their practices inside the school gym.

The 63-year-old Cooper knows how frenzied the crowds at The Swamp can get, having coached on the opposing sidelines as an assistant at South Carolina and LSU. But to the majority of

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