Oregon's new Defensive Coordinator has a plan.
So the new coordinator has a plan, Play Defense.
“Whose wise idea was it to pair the Bend-but-don’t-Break-Defense with the Oregon Offense?”
That defense works….I know as I’ve coached it, but why would you pair it with an offense that has been in the top five in the nation for scoring in each of the last five years? Oregon is known for rapid scoring, having some of the highest numbers of under-two minute drives in the nation. An offense like that can score a TON, so why pair it with a defense that is designed to be out on the field for long stretches–and keeps this scoring machine off the field?”
I am sure it started with "Um, Well". I didn't mention the coach because I think the theory stands on it's own.
http://fishduck.com/2016/06/oregon-offensive-scoring-records-will-fall-due-to-brady-hoke/
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he plays michigan. would love to have the guy over for a bbq, i bet that'd be fun.
and maybe he can fix those oregon uni's while he's out there.
Make sure your couch has a blanket for him. He's got a chronic case of the itis.
'the itis'?
couch has blanket. if hoke can't drive home after the bbq, he can crash at our place.
lol--He saw it on Chappelle's Show.
Are Michigan fans unique in the fact that we have to wish everyone the best of luck until they play Michigan?
Sure, Hoke is a nice enough guy but I feel like he's somewhat of an asshole for even taking the job here considering how unqualified he was.
If I recall correctly, we had whiffed on every slam dunk candidate we approached and were staring down the barrel of an embarassingly long search for a flyer option from a lower tier league/team, so in that sense I sort feel like he fell on a grenade for M. He had to know, like many of us suspected, that while not impossible, it was highly unlikely he was going to light the world on fire and that he would face an immense amount of ridicule from the type of M "fans" that boo their own players/coaches if he failed. Which he did and seemingly still does.......
He rolled some very big dice, and for that I wish him the best and hope he succeeds.
And by "we" you mean Dave Brandon, right?
Let's be honest, we didn't whiff on anybody. If I recall correctly, when Hoke was hired, someone asked Les Miles how it felt to "never land his dream job." And his response was something to the effect of "Well, I'm not that old, am I?"
Dave Brandon thought he could coach the team through a head coach whose name was less known than his own. Unfortunately, he couldn't.
I wouldn't argue against that, but there were a lot of factors that played into that.
Any coach that was a clear D1, slam dunk hire would look at:
- Fairly toxic atmosphere and a divided fanbase
- A roster that is a Frankenstein of schemes and recruiting philosophies that is 4+ years from being solved
- Previous coach run out of town on a rail - regardless of results, it is safe to say he wasnt fully supported or treated as well as a coach could be
- People in the know would have been aware of Brandon's rep as, shall we say, "mot the greatest person to work for" and leave it at that
No up and coming/hot coaching candidate is going to play with a career trajectory that is that risky.
Brandon did indeed attempt to prop up his hire with an outsized salary and a way too early extension/bump, but I highly doubt that was a result of Hoke having any expectations or demands. It is my impression he would have taken the for far, far less money and been more than fone with it. Did he make bank? Yes, but that is Brandon's doing, not his.
You mean he fell on a $4 million/year grenade for Michigan. I would also fall on, heck $1 million/year grenade.
Cannot blame for accepting a high paying job that someone thinks he would be a good fit for, even though he was not, you need to blame the man that offered the job and blame him for the non-search he did.
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Harbaugh would've fking destroyed Brandon. No way they would've been able to co-exist.
For picturing the greatest rapper alive....
Overtures were made to many candidates and they weren't even interested in having discussions, so we moved on. Les Miles wasn't one of them.
There is a reason that the search was drawn out prior to hiring Hoke and it wasn't for the sake of appearances.
Post.
If by slam dunk candidate you mean Les Miles (who was never offered the job) and Harbaugh (who was never pursued seriously) then you would be right.
I just took a promotion that I felt I was unqualified for because it was either that or I had to find a new job, and I was pretty upset about the situation. So no, I wouldn't have taken the job.
Yeah, I moved to California last summer for a job, and then got promoted twice, and I didn't ask for either of them. I wasn't in a position to just take the layoff and roll the dice.
I'm one of the few people that prefers Ann Arbor to SoCal, but to each their own.
I don't really understand why I'm getting bashed here. I get that I'm "humble-bragging" but my original point was that I don't think people should automatically take a job for the pay raise if the company they're working for is something they care about and they don't think they're the best for it. And I think Brady Hoke was in that situation.
No, that's bullshit. Like I said, if it's something you care about, you find the best person for the job. Your point is true in general, but this is Michigan fergodsakes.
But I will admit coaching is one job where you HAVE to have an ego to succeed. If you don't think you can perform better than anyone, then you should find a different profession. So I'll give Hoke that.
So if someone offers a guy his dream job, and it's clearly a good move for him and his family, and the people offering the job deemed him the best candidate, then the guy - who probably believes he'll succeed - is an "asshole" for saying yes?
Your opinion on this is beyond ridiculous. Hoke was such a non-asshole about it, in fact, that he accepted the job before settling on a salary.
Since when is failing in a spectacular fashion a good move for someone and their family? Go back and look at the old threads about the hire. We all knew he was doomed.
he shouldn't take the job? You're a hypocrite, idiot and a fucking asshole rolled into one.
Also, did you ever think that Brandon's meddling had a lot to do with his failure?
I used to have respect for you but not anymore.
Thank god you are an engineer and your job does not have anything to do with teaching people logic.
They premote those they think will do a good job at the position you'll be doing rather than the position you are doing. Its like the no peter principle, your boss hapen to be female?
You seriously cannot be that dense.
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he will copy/paste somebody else's comment in his subject line, the reply in the body of his response. takes a second to get used to it but once you do, no big deal.
It's not even irony. It's just another in a long line of examples of the mental gymnastics people will employ to rationalize their own bullshit.
about once a week, I go to Redfin and check in on my dream house/farm on Liberty and daydream a little of horses, dogs, kids that don't turn into smartass teenagers, and football Saturdays in Ann Arbor with the fall colors as a backdrop. https://www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor/6830-W-Liberty-Rd-48103/home/993293…
The thing I still can't wrap my head around is the housing market out here. You have it worse than I do up in the Bay Area, but even in LA the cost of housing does not at all match up with the pay bump you get by taking a job here.
Maybe WolvinLA can chime in, but I don't understand how people (especially from the Midwest) can settle down here. There are a ton of great things about CA, but I see it as more of a pitstop than a destination.
why we're having trouble hiring people from out of state. It's unsustainable. California overall has net negative migration as ordinary folks are being driven out by housing costs and it's causing all kinds of social tumult up here. It's not Venezuela, but still, it's a serious situation for tech and non-tech alike.
the US only? Because the population of CA is growing at the 17th fastest rate in the country, higher than the national average (according to latest 2015 census estimates compared to 2010). Maybe that growth is driven by foreign immigration, but they face the same economic choice so your point of negative migration doesn't apply. A lot more people are willing to move to CA than leave, and this is despite huge housing cost increases in the two largest markets.
My company has offices in MI and CA and we do well recruiting here in CA. Our MI employees can't believe people are willing to work in CA for similar pay as MI, but they are. Luckily, because the pool is so good and vast here, I've never needed to recruit out of state, but I do imagine that most people living in cheap places do so because of family or cost of living reasons, which would be difficult to overcome to get them to CA (especially when the market does not compensate them for the cost of living difference).
One thing I can say, is that if you've ever tried to recruit out-of-staters to MI, it's a lot harder than recruiting out-of-staters to CA.
CA lost 5 million during 2004-2013 to other states and gained 3.9 million.
Michigan sent 87k to CA during that period, and CA sent MI 67k, making MI one of the few states that had a net positive emigration to CA (interestingly they're virtually all Great Lakes region). Some nearby states like WI and MN were virtually dead even.
Here's one source but there are many studies on this.
http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article32679753.html
Figured that had to be it. I'm sure that many of those leaving are retirees or nearly retirees with boomers hitting that mark. CA is an expensive place in which to retire, so once you don't need the vast career opportunities afforded here, why not cash in your expensive home and move to AZ or Texas or back to where you're originally from where you can golf for a lot cheaper? I'd move back to MI if not for the winters so once I retire, I hope to retire to MI but snowbird it to somewhere else from the end of football season til April-Mayish.
CA is definitely one of the easiest states to recruit to, if you have to recruit out-of-staters. And obviously, just about the easiest for recruiting in-staters since there are more people here than any other state. It's just not that easy to recruit anywhere with a fully employed work force like we have right now.
I guess I am bucking the trend, but with the gain on my CA house I won't have to work another day. After 30 years I have grown tired of CA (especially the fucking traffic) and look forward to living in MI again
Just to make the rest of us jealous - and out of curiosity - what's the gain on your house? Over how many years? I'm sure that in the Bay Area, if you've been there a couple decades, it's got to be fantastic.
we bought right after 9/11 (would've stayed in the UP if we'd known that was going to happen) and sold close to the peak in '04. it's taken all those years to get back to the peak now. i used to kid that my monthly mortgage was the 'gross national product of turkey'. debt is a curse, and i am grateful to have escaped that curse.