January 8th, 2020 at 1:17 PM ^
Well....this is San Diego State University FERGODSAKES!!!!
January 8th, 2020 at 1:50 PM ^
Did he walk there?
January 8th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
on glass
January 8th, 2020 at 2:01 PM ^
This is a huge stepping stone for him!
January 8th, 2020 at 11:53 PM ^
I bet the fans stop supporting the team and they move them to LA. Hoke will be the head coach at SDSU of Anaheim of Los Angeles located in Carson. Still shorter than Harbaughs title.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:18 PM ^
Well, you know, not a bad hire I suppose.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:18 PM ^
Then to Stanford, the 49ers, and we'll see where it goes from there. Happy for him!
January 8th, 2020 at 1:22 PM ^
SDSU, not USD.
January 8th, 2020 at 3:18 PM ^
Sure it isn't.
January 8th, 2020 at 3:29 PM ^
OK, he'll go to Stanford State instead then.
January 8th, 2020 at 6:24 PM ^
I believe Stanford State has transitioned to a community college. Or a middle school. It's one or the other.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:23 PM ^
SDSU is not the same thing as the University of San Diego.
January 8th, 2020 at 6:38 PM ^
there is UCSD in LaJolla, but they dont have football.
January 8th, 2020 at 10:55 PM ^
Yeah, not the same thing at all. The weather is a little worse at USD than SDSU.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:31 PM ^
Hoke coached at SDSU when he was hired by Michigan. Harbaugh coached at USD when he was hired by Stanford.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:51 PM ^
join date no check out
January 8th, 2020 at 2:52 PM ^
:-) I got the joke. Others it seems did not.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
He will probably do well. That is the level he was meant to coach at.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
Gonna be a lot of snark here, but I think there's a good chance Coach Hoke is successful there, just like he was the first time around.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:49 PM ^
Yeah this is a good fit for everybody. Congratulations and good luck coach!
January 8th, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
No one can hear football like Brady! Congrats!
January 8th, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
Did he walk to San Diego?
January 8th, 2020 at 1:21 PM ^
...yes, in a short-sleeve shirt and without a headset
January 8th, 2020 at 1:35 PM ^
...clap, clap, clapping all the way there.
January 8th, 2020 at 5:38 PM ^
All that time we thought he was on the sidelines clapping, he was really just crushing beer cans to help illustrate his metaphors
January 8th, 2020 at 2:00 PM ^
Shirt sleeves definitely work in San Diego.
Now let's see if he channels Scott Loeffler and puts the band back together. And what a band it could be. Al Borges, Darrel Funk, Curt Mallory, Fred Jackson. And, since all it will take is money, he could throw a big wad of it at Greg Mattison.
January 8th, 2020 at 2:48 PM ^
Nobody wants ol' man boobs.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
Life, is balance
January 8th, 2020 at 1:20 PM ^
Id clap for him but he's probably already clapping too loud to hear it.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:36 PM ^
The Fugitive just posted, what looks like, a blank stare
January 8th, 2020 at 2:27 PM ^
OK, get a cane pole, go catch the fish that ate him.
January 8th, 2020 at 8:52 PM ^
And he got 2 upvotes!
January 8th, 2020 at 1:27 PM ^
Interesting. Hoke turned it around, but only was there two years. Rocky Long is the one who turned SDSU into a Mountain West power the last decade, winning a few titles; let's see if Hoke can sustain the success of his former assistant.
Timing is interesting. A bit earlier in the cycle and SDSU could've gotten a hot up-and-comer P5 assistant.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:44 PM ^
Yeah, but you get a hot up and comer and you risk losing him in 2 to 4 years.
I don't think Hoke is on any P5 short lists so SDSU is probably banking on having him around for a while which is probably good for a G5 program. Too often when G5 teams hire the hot up and comer they have a meteoric rise followed by a crash down to earth once he leaves for a bigger program.
January 8th, 2020 at 3:07 PM ^
I wonder if SDSU even wants a "hot up-and-comer P5 assistant", though.
They went that direction in 2006-2008 with Chuck Long. That was an absolute disaster: an average of 3 wins a year that was capped by a 70-7 (!!!) loss to New Mexico.
I think they are still hurt by that experience.
Rocky Long in 2011 - and Hoke again here in 2020 - are/were safe choices. An established coach, who's a low risk to leave for somewhere else, and is low risk to completely flame out like Chuck Long.
If I were a SDSU fan, nothing against Hoke, but I'd be a little annoyed by this safe choice. In reality, SDSU should be a bit more than they are - they should be at Boise State's level every single year instead of 8-4 every year. But it's unlikely to be a disaster either.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:30 PM ^
He's a good man. I'm happy for him.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:34 PM ^
God I hope he does well there. SDSU will now become my unofficial fourth 2nd University to cheer for (teams playing MSU, OSU & ND are the others) each Saturday.
Brady, by all accounts was one hell of a nice guy who got his dream job and fucked it up. Sometimes I wonder how he would've done had the great Dave Brandon not insisted on sitting in on the Sunday film sessions (God only knows what he "suggested" in those) or if Denard's elbow hadnt gotten destroyed at Nebraska.
We make fun of his clapping and aversion to headsets but give the man his due in one area. He had the team ready to GO against OSU each year he was there. His record may have only been 1-3 but we played them evenly to the very end. If not for a couple of bad breaks in 2012 and the infamous 2 point conversion in 2013 Brady would've gone 3-1 which is one hell of a lot better than we've done since.
Good luck Brady. You'll always be a Michigan man and this Michigan man will be rooting for you.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:38 PM ^
Very well stated!
January 8th, 2020 at 1:47 PM ^
If not for a couple of bad breaks in 2012 and the infamous 2 point conversion in 2013 Brady would've gone 3-1 which is one hell of a lot better than we've done since.
1. If not for a terrible spot in 2016 and John O'Korn in 2017, Harbaugh would have two wins against OSU. Unfortunately, that's not how it works.
2. Hoke apologized to MSU for the stupid Joe Bolden tent-stake incident and played a huge role in elevating Dantonio to deity status in East Lansing.
3. Hoke forgot that recruiting quarterbacks was important.
I'm sure he was a hell of a nice guy. He was also totally in over his head--regardless of Brandon's interference and Denard's elbow--and did quite a bit to embarrass the University of Michigan.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
1. Harbaugh recruited O'Korn as a transfer so why is he blameless for that?
2. Harbaugh's QB recruiting has been totally meh so far
3. Harbaugh's best teams in 15 and 16 were with primarily Hoke's players.
January 8th, 2020 at 2:28 PM ^
1. Harbaugh recruited O'Korn as a transfer so why is he blameless for that?
To be fair, O'Korn was out there because Speight and Peters were both injured, not because he was Harbaugh's preferential choice.
January 8th, 2020 at 3:14 PM ^
Except O'Korn was 2nd on the depth chart in front of Peters.
January 8th, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
As long as we're being fair, Hoke's one really good team was with Rich Rod's players.
January 8th, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
fair point but anchors on offense and defense were recruited by Carr
January 8th, 2020 at 3:10 PM ^
We could go 16-0, every year forward, and your posts would never change.
Hoke lack of development and recruiting created O’Korn
Hoke won 11 games with Rich’s guys.
You saw 9/11 coming.
Bobby Riggs fixed the match.
JFK got in the wrong limo.
Amelia had a bad map.
Dan Jansen needs to stop falling down.
Nancy Kerrigan should’ve called in sick.
And stuff like that...
January 8th, 2020 at 3:33 PM ^
Still waiting on Harbaugh to have a team as talented as 2016, but it wouldnt matter.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:49 PM ^
I tend to agree with you on your point here and he did have his teams show up in games it looked like we had no chance vs OSU so this isn't meant to be a dick but it's the internet so....punt/counterpunt
He almost lost his 1 win vs a shit OSU team so he easily could have been 0-4. If not for a slight overthrow by Braxton we could have had another tragically bad loss to rank up there with The Snap Horror and Hail Mary games.
As a Harbaugh truther I can point out the 16 and 17 games in which he easily could have won and he would have been 2-3 and much better than anything we have had in the last decade.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:52 PM ^
It's good to say nice things about Brady. The Hoke regression at Michigan was due to several factors and too bad it ended in such a bad way.
Good luck to Coach Hoke at SDSU.
January 8th, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
Hoke seems like a genuinely good guy who I hope succeeds again at SDSU