December 31st, 2014 at 10:45 PM ^
January 1st, 2015 at 12:33 AM ^
But he wasn't fully aware that he had been invited.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:45 PM ^
January 1st, 2015 at 4:05 AM ^
He might have been invited as a courtesy and turned it down. I can't see Brady Hoke ever being persona non grata at Michigan.
January 1st, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
Your last sentence is spot on.
But right now he'd be a distraction. He knows it, Harbaugh knows it, everyone knows it. In a couple of years, after Harbaugh's established himself, we'll start seeing him around if his other time commitments permit it.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:46 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
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December 31st, 2014 at 10:58 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
I had a long-term ex-girlfriend invite me to her wedding. We never really broke up, as we had been living on different sides of the country and sort of drifted into friendship. I still didn't go, of course. Women sometimes have strange ideas...
December 31st, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 11:09 PM ^
Did she know she was your girlfriend?
January 1st, 2015 at 12:56 AM ^
You may have meant, "Did he know she had been my girlfriend?" I can assure you that he did. A guy marrying a girl knows who her long-term boyfriend was, especially since she never actually broke up with him. Or did you really mean, "Did she know?" Uh, Yes. It was pretty obvious.
Life is sometimes funny with how things work out. But we have to be good guys, and that means not showing up at a guys wedding when your presence would be an unhappy part of what should be a great day in his life.
January 1st, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
Was she from Canada? Perhaps the Niagra Falls area??
December 31st, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^
Wow. Logged in to upvote this.
[And because you have to log in for everything now due to site rifts from the Harbaughing]
January 1st, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^
When my husband and I were dating, we went to one of his high school friend's weddings - a girl. As we made our way through the congratulations line, he got to her first and she said to him, "And I always thought it was going to be you." Uh, did you not know your new husband is standing right next to you??? And my husband wasn't any less shocked. Talk about awkward.
January 1st, 2015 at 2:34 AM ^
Hmmmmm
January 1st, 2015 at 12:36 AM ^
But my ex-boyfriend invited me to his wedding. Fortunately, Higher Power of your Choice intervened and I couldn't get there. True story.
January 1st, 2015 at 5:47 AM ^
Especially one that you dated for four year and broke up with four weeks ago.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:46 PM ^
Seriously?
January 1st, 2015 at 6:01 PM ^
Seriously!
December 31st, 2014 at 10:46 PM ^
January 1st, 2015 at 1:01 AM ^
In the same realm of awkward as this:
December 31st, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
I doubt that he was, since Harbaugh is friends with and respects Hoke. Would've been in poor form to have him there. But Harbaugh was able to show appreciation to him since he wasn't present.
December 31st, 2014 at 11:02 PM ^
And what a fine gesure it was. Harbaugh put it nicely: Hoke honored the position of head coach. He just didn't win.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
Don't you think that would be.... you know... a little... AWKWARD AS FUCK!!!???
December 31st, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
Autistic post...In before the delete
December 31st, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
January 1st, 2015 at 8:36 AM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
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December 31st, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
January 1st, 2015 at 5:51 AM ^
RichRod couldn't make it because he was preparing for the Fiesta Bowl the next day but he RSVP'd and sent his regrets.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
Give it a few years and he'll probably be invited back...way too soon at this point.
December 31st, 2014 at 11:05 PM ^
But will Hoke want to come back? Much as we have real affection for him, his regime ended up as an embarrassment. So I don't think he'll come back.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
of Rich Rod, anyone else find it odd that he wasn't mentioned as one of the past coaches who's 'shoulder's I'm standing on?' Is he the cousin no one talks about in the family??? Deserves better IMO.
December 31st, 2014 at 10:57 PM ^
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January 1st, 2015 at 6:12 AM ^
"At Michigan, it's the block M that has the infinity and power, not Denard Robinson - Lochdog. /s
December 31st, 2014 at 11:29 PM ^
It would have been kind of awkward. The reason he mentioned Hoke was because he's a family friend and also the previous head coach. Hoke did the same thing with Rich Rod in his press conference.
December 31st, 2014 at 11:12 PM ^
...but I agree in that the comment was meant for the guys who are Michigan lifers, the guys who truly built the program and Michigan was the "dream job." People forget Hoke was at Michigan BEFORE he was head coach.
It was weird though because Hoke and Carr were the guys on each end of RR.
He does deserve better, but he's not going to get better and we just have to live with that.
If Harbaugh wins a NC, that always lightens things up...at that time he'll be accepted more from the (people who get referred to as "Michigan Men" even though it's the wrong definition of the term).
It's always going to be awkward though, can you imagine a reunion of coaches with Carr standing next to Rich Rod? Think if that happened next year for the home opener. That's pretty much the tension in a nutshell.
We as fans let it go a long time ago (for the most part), but the guys inside Schembechler will have to have some real fireside chat to mend those fences. I hope it happens, I hope they all pour glasses of scotch and sit back and talk about how they were "young and dumb" (even though they weren't young or dumb) and I hope everyone is in a better place.
It's unlikely, but one day I hope Rich Rod, Carr, Hoke, Harbaugh, Moeller and everyone else can just hug, laugh, and be part of the same fraternity. Just like the press conference on Tuesday. Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't you tear up a little bit? Especially if Harbaugh has his national championship, Rich Rod has Arizona or wherever he is humming and Hoke is having some success wherever he is? That would be an awesome picture. I'd buy it.
Too bad it's a dream. But then again...so was hiring Harbaugh.
December 31st, 2014 at 11:09 PM ^
December 31st, 2014 at 11:46 PM ^
January 1st, 2015 at 4:01 AM ^
You're right... he resigned.
January 1st, 2015 at 6:14 AM ^
It was more like jump or be pushed.
December 31st, 2014 at 11:09 PM ^
But seriously I belive Harbaugh was just mentioning the coaches he had a personal relationship with, and did not mean it as an intentional slight. He has probably met Rich Rod maybe once in his life if ever.