The Hoke Era Part Deux

Coach Hoke.

Funny how so called knowledgible M fans forget Hoke was D line coach for the 1997 M championship team.  That was a pretty good line.  I hope hoke one day comes back in ten years to take over the D line from Coach Matty.

Guy knows what he's doing. Gets to coach for a year then get his buyout and do it again.

The guy showed nothing but love for his players and the University, even if he did botch a number of things in his tenure here. He always had good intentions and I respect that about Hoke. I wish him the best.

You have to wonder how Hoke processes his life. He did fine up until Michigan job but has scuffled along since then. He has made a lot of money while shuffling. So his success went way down but his finances went crazy. It's a real head scratcher.

The problem was never Hoke - it was Dave Brandon. He should have never been offered the head coaching job at Michigan. He was set-up to fail from day one - it was never going to end well. I respect Hoke; he was just over his head.

Brady Hoke is a Michigan Man through and through. He gave his blood, sweat and tears to the program and helped us win a national championship in the process. What is his crime? Taking a job that never should have been offered to him in the first place? I’ll listen to any criticism of Dave Brandon you want to dish out, because that guy willfully put himself, his interests and his reputation ahead of the well-being of Michigan. Brady Hoke, on the other hand, did everything in his power to make Michigan great again and merely failed in the attempt. I, for one, hope he wins out at Tennessee not “because he’s a good guy,” but because he’s a Michigan Man.

I️ see a lot of people mad at people for bashing Brady Hoke but I️ don’t see anyone actually bashing him. It’s fun to joke about cause he’s kind of a funny guy and we’re in a much better place now.

Best of luck to Brady definite improvement over sloppy BJ

He never should have been offered our HC job and he’s not qualified for Tenn either. If you want a cheerleader and pointer then ok

I pray for the Vol QBs. At least they don’t play at Purdue the rest of the year

I'd love to see them win out and make the bone headed decision to hire Hoke full time after their top candidate turns them down.

about Hoke etc etc...played out

Was Michigan thru and thru and that alone should mean we dont trash the man..It didnt work out the way we wanted but Damm anyone whose heart and soul was Maize and Blue is all right by me

Out there for a while.

LEAVE BRADY ALONE

 

I don't think he was qualified to be Michigan's head coach but Brian and Ace shit on the guy to no end and I don't get it. Rich Rod had more of a track record but 10 years later that track record seems to suggest that Rich Rod is just as incompetent with defense as Hoke is on offense. And even then, Harbaugh's time so far makes it pretty clear that establishing a dominant pro-style offense is not quite as easy as anyone here initially thought.

The fact that Hoke has not gotten a job since is pretty damning but I still really don't think he would do too bad. Then again, being a coordinator at Oregon or Tennessee is probably more luctrative than HC at Ball State.

Hope he does well and ends their season on a high note. I don’t hold any ill will towards the guy. I’ll never blame him for taking his dream job. It should never have been offered to him, but that damn sure isn’t Hoke’s fault, and I don’t think too many of us would ever turn our dream jobs down even if we knew we may not be qualified for it.

I just feel bad that he’s gone to two programs in two years that are both cleaning house.

At least we know that Tennessee will have a great week of practice. Hoke loves hearing football. " Wellllllll uhhhhhhh we had a good week of practiceeee"

I hope he has the success that eluded him here. He was a good guy in over his head.

Just a few years apart.  They've even swapped the same coaches.

Maybe win a game of the two left, use it as a way to get a MAC job again.

People will make fun of caricatures. It was pretty bad when he was our coach and *everyone* else was mocking him and us for having him. I don't wish him any personal ill, but I'm gonna be honest enough and say I'm glad he's not our problem anymore.

I know that some people want to settle on the 'he's a good guy' narrative and all that, but he did a few things as HC of Michigan that made me question his professional ethics.

Now the Shane Morris situation - obviously David Brandon had a role in that - but yeah Hoke showed lack of leadership and lack of strength of character in that situation, too. Beyond that, I remember very well how this was a dude who talked about accountability a lot - in almost ever interview and presser- but was king of excuses when it was actually time to account for his work.

I don't think that was a result of deceit or bad intentions, I think it was the result of a dude who was in over his head and clung to anything he could find to preserve the notion that he knew what he was doing. But that was kind of the thing with Hoke. He was a dude who didn't know his limitations and a result exposed his weaknesses in brutal ways.

If he knows what's good for his reputation, he finishes these 2 games and then looks for another DL coach gig somewhere a long way from Michigan.

Home and home with Tennessee? Remember playing two years I’m a row at Spartan Stadium?

Wish him the best. He was a Michigan man and a Michigan national champion. Unfortunately, a head coaching job here was just WAY over his head. Sure, that was frustating (very), but he had good intentions. I'll crack jokes about his clapping, lack of headsets, golf-shirt-in-a-monsoon, and coachspeak, but I still respect him and think he is a great person.

While I was deeply upset by the results of his tenure here, I didn't lose my respect for him like I did with the idiot he replaced, and the astronomically bigger idiot that served as AD at the time.

Shocky Jacques Louis decommitted from Tennessee... get him for his name?

I predict glowing reports on the quality of Tennessee practices in the coming weeks.