What else would you like from Hoke?

We deserve nothing, especialy after the way our fan base behaves like petulant children.

As mentioned by several already, wins and player development.  I don't care what tools or methods are used, but develop their skills, knowledge, and playmaking.  This may be insignificant, but also a little passion on the sidelines wouldn't hurt (i.e. Bo, Moeller).

W's. Plain and simple.

I can take a loss to ND, and I can even deal with another loss to OSU, but for the love of God, I CANNOT take another loss to Michigan State.

Competency.

i'd like him to start being good at his job.

I'd like Hoke to make me breakfast in the morning before I left. 

"This is Michigan." I want to see it on the field.

We need to go for the jugular every play. He needs to communicate upstairs, and actually figure things out. He needs to instill toughness, and make players hate him at practice. He shouldn't be a coach at a major program, but I hope he learns before 5 more years. I want a big time coach like Ohio has. I don't care about the Michigan way, because that was lost. We need to win at all costs.

Titles conference and National ones. Win, win and more wins. To compete every year for the National Championship just like basketball is. 

Winning and developing players is an obvious thing you expect out of every coach, That goes without saying. Sometimes I wish we could see a little more passion out of Hoke. If we do something stupid, don't just shrug your shoulders, clap your hands and move on. It's OK to get angry sometimes to fire the players up. But Hoke has got to be the calmest coach I've ever seen. Its hard to imagine him getting mad.

Those are the player characteristics I would like to see be developed by Hoke and staff.   Sadly, those traits have been missing all too often from too many players.  Their absence has little or nothing to do with the team being 'young'.

Wins. If you win, no one cares about headsets or sideline demeanor. Or recruiting. Or development. Or conservative play calling

I would like a PS4 from Hoke and if that's not possible then just having a winning record against our rivals and a big ten championship (although I'd imagine that would go along way towards securing a championship).  

If all of that falls into place, then it'd be nice to see Michigan make a run for a title in 2015.  I still feel like this year is "put up or shut up time" for the coaching staff.  I love these guys, the players seem to take to them but for some reason it just hasn't been put together on the field.  

Maybe JB can coach the football team too if this season goes completely to hell. 

I hate to say it, but I honestly don't think he is going to be the coach next year. I simply do not see a team that is going to win in Columbus or East Lansing, while South Bend, Evanston, and even Piscataway won't be cakewalks. Throw in one stupid home loss and there's simply no way he survives. Make it the first game and he doesn't even see the end of September. I know, I know, I'm going to get negged for that because this isn't the FCS Championship dynasty Appalachian State of 2007, but this team will still be less than a year removed from coming within a play of losing to Akron at home, so I don't really feel anything can be taken for granted.

I like Hoke personally and want to believe in him and see him succeed. But he has not instilled the confidence of competence in me, instead I see the confusion of a man out of his league. I know maybe that's just his persona, I know they like to play it coy, but the last two seasons, the performance on the field has too often matched the "Duhhhh derp" press conferences, so one can't help having one's preconceptions fed. Because of the murdererous road schedule (and I don't care what you say, the way this team performs on the road, yes, Rutgers can be included in murderer's row), they are going to have almost no margin for error in their home games. And unless the O-line makes leaps and bounds which haven't been remotely visible, that's simply too much to ask. I think a Utah or a Penn State or an Indiana is lurking somewhere out in the darkness, waiting to deal the Brady Hoke Era its coup de grace.

I expect the offense to improve under Nussmeier, but I don't think he'll have had time to make his needed marks by fall. I expect Gardner to be more consistent and have some solid to excellent playmakers around him, but I still expect the O-line will have him running for his life, and the RBs into a wall, too often for that to matter. I expect the defensive back seven to be near-elite, but I think that will be wasted on having to support a D-line that can't do its job consistently enough on its own. I don't see how this adds up to wins in the big games, or how it staves off embarrassment in one or two of the gimmes. I wish I could be more optimistic, but at this point I can't be.

So I went to the CMU game, the first one, obviously a 'puff game.  Michigan ran the ball, like 9 straight plays, all the way down the field and scored a touchdown.  My heart was filled with happy.

And then, we proceeed to go 30 for 30, backwards against MSU (although they had an awesome defense).

What I want to see with regularity is running football.  Rushing.  Tote the rock.  Even when the other team knows its coming.  First downs picked up by 3 successive running plays at times.  I don't quite expect 2013 Stanford.  But when we get to this point where the opposing D has to scheme-cheat to stop our running game, everything is on Go then as far as passing is concerned**.  I don't expect us to knock the opposition off the ball for like 5 yards a play, but just give me some warmth on running.  I haven't seen that since Carr, and that was awhile back.

I'd like to see Michigan run a Texas tech fast snap offense every once in awhile, just to find the defense sleeping.

And lets put the ball in Jabrill Peppers hands, twice a game.  Just give him a chance.  If it works, great, iterate to more touches, if not, then we can learn and build from there.

Back to our main 2 rivals, Staee and Ohio aren't the teams of last year, Ohio being probably the best offense and Sta having the best defense in the conf.  This is our year to take them to task for that.  I want to see a hard fought game in both.  Note they are on the road, and we played with lack of fire on the road.

 

** afterthought, but when opposing defenses loaded up the box and purposefully overloaded the OL we had no way out.  Dismissive laughter about screen passes potentially being the solution just amplified the discontent.  And defenses just learned that was the only play they needed to run.   I expect Nuss will have something better.

I've been reading, and they could be rumors, but I'm hearing about Senior leadership was lacking. Seniors yelling at the younger players for mistakes instead of nurturing them and teaching them.

I've been hearing that Lewan was a loose cannon in the locker room. That Kalis was pouting and was uncoachable.

This all breeds lack of trust and finger pointing. Teams that don't play together don't stay committed to each other. So maybe it's more than Hoke. Maybe the players just didn't get the team thing thus everything started falling apart.

This years Seniors are committed to changing the atmosphere in the locker room and how underclass men are treated. So with that I'm giving Hoke and the rest of the staff a pass until I hear this teams players get on the same page.

Improvement on the oline throughout the course of the season

Work to start paying off and I think it will. I feel like last year for whatever reason the train got off the track and for some reason it couldn't get back on. I think this year will be good and next year even better.

I don't know if I deserve what I want, or even if it is the best idea... but:

I want some passion, I want to see a coach who doesn't appear to be happy to have the job, I want a coach who explodes with emotion when we either win or lose.

And I don't mean calling people out, or complaining, or shameless thanking;  I want unadulterated true honest feeling...

I want to know that Hoke hates losing and it is eating him up.

 

I say I may not deserve it, or that it might not be the best idea, because that probably isn't who he is, but goddammit I want a coach who fucking cares, cares so much that he can't vomit up platitudes any more and just shoots straight...

that is what i want.

jdon

 

I would like most of the gloom and doomers on this site to shut up...that's all really

Can we agree if we somehow lose to Appalachain State again he should be automatically fired?

Don't name our five best guys and say they have progressed? Well who should we name? the guys who have stood still? Nobody has regressed. Outside of those 5 best players as you call them the rest are sophmores and freshman and this year we actually have some juniors what a suprise maybe before you talk about this "Players regress under Hoke" crap you give his players a chance to at least have junior seasons under their belt. After this year even though the schedule is well, the toughest in the league, we will see what the coaching has done for these players. Fair enough? Gardner playing on a broken foot against Ohio and a bruised ego @ State along with every muscle in his body, last year was nothing short of amaising. So don't blame Hoke for that, tell us he was lucky or whatever. Funny thing is the tailbacks last year couldn't block me coming on a blitz, let alone seasoned veteran LB's with 5th year Sr status. But no one wants to bring up coach Jackson and they shouldn't because our tailbacks were also too young to give real protection that won't make a QB have happy feet. I believe some of the people in here and I say some, if they were in charge of putting a firing squad together it would be in a circle.

Lets stop this "in fighting" and get back to the question asked here. What else would you like to see coach Hoke do to improve this team?

Wins

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