Fact Check: Brady Hoke's Red Aversion
So Brady Hoke vowed to Adam Rittenberg he'd never worn red as as a head coach despite the fact both of his jobs were at schools that kinda sorta prioritized said color. This is hard to believe, so I paged through Google Images until porn started coming up on a search for "Brady Hoke ball state"—the definitive signal your search has ended—and A-HA:
Yeah… that's the best I could do. Red tie at an introductory press conference. There is also this:
In all other pictures Rittenberg's Johnny Cash reference is dead on. Getty has nothing. Hoke really did go through his Ball State career never putting on the school's primary color as anything more than an embarrassing accent. I should probably find that juvenile or something but it pokes my fan button. This is a man who gets it. What is it? If you don't know, you don't get it. Sucks to be you, buddy.*
*[Strong possibility "it" is "black is slimming." Also, the last four sentences are the plot of Atlas Shrugged.]
Just giving my opinion. Clearly a lot of people would disagree with my take on her philosophy, otherwise she wouldn't be as popular as she is. Willywill9 was asking whether or not it's worth reading, I just was saying that I think it's emphatically not worth the time. I didn't call anyone any names (aside from Rand, herself, I guess, but I'm OK with that).
You could take it as saying the philosophy as a whole. I didn't necessarily think you meant that, because like I said, I've seen enough of your posts to think you wouldn't easily do something like that.
Just that it could have been by someone who hadn't.
BOOM! AD HOMINEM'D!
Play Bioshock. Presents many of the same philosophies/ideas as Rand, in an interactive media with an award winning/engrossing storyline. (also includes some gore and depravity)
then don't waste your time.
I loved it.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:57 PM ^
Strange. I think you would classify me as a "Lib," based on what you would perceive my political views to be if we had a discussion, and based on my voting. . . but I loved "Atlas Shrugged."
-1 for ad hominem, closed-minded overly simplified generalizations.
it seriously changed the way i look at life. im not totally sure if this is a good thing yet, cuz mostly im just angrier at stupid/incompetent/lazy people. i also feel like i can't totally connect with other people unless they have read it (i get a similar feeling with1984). i highly recommend it, but it is long, so it's not for the feint of heart
Just look at the group of people who hold this up as the Bible 2.0. Nobody else likes it.
20,000,000+ copies sold would disagree. As would 500,000 in 2009, its 52nd year in print.
I don't have a problem with most long books, but the first third of Atlas Shrugged was painfully slow for me ... Rand's insistence on repeating a theme again and again and again and again had me nearly to the point of flipping forward.
I made it through, and I think the last two-thirds of the book makes up for the slow build, but it's definitely not a book for everyone.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:27 PM ^
...is sponsored by Sonic?
April 20th, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
...that picture indicates that SDSU is (was).
April 20th, 2011 at 12:28 PM ^
Atlas Shrugged is bad, mmkay.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:41 PM ^
If I could do it over, I'd do something else over those months I bounced in and out of Shrugged. Yeesh.
Fountainhead is one thing, but that one's just a big excuse for all the Angelina Jolie's of the world to love the smell of their own poop.
Most people who like Atlas Shrugged probably like it for the philosophy of objectivism espoused therein, rather than as a work of literature. Rand grew up in the Soviet Union where she had a front-row view of the soul-crushing power of a collectivist state. She takes individualism to what most people would believe to be an extreme point, but she does so passionately and with logic.
The book's enduring success speaks to its place in history, though as a proud grad of the Michigan school of English (and without passing judgement on Rand's philosophy), I'd have to pronounce it a pretty poor piece of literature. The characters are actually more like symbols; they are wooden and they converse in speeches rather than dialogue.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:45 PM ^
I was going to comment that this seems to be "Kicking the Hornet's Nest" week on the 'blog. (More than usual, anyway ...)
Ms. Rand's philosophy aside for a moment, Atlas Shrugged is truly a young person's book, because only a young person would have the energy to churn through eight hundred pages when it's clear that the main ideas could be elegantly communicated in, oh, a couple of hundred at most.
the main ideas could be elegantly communicated in a couple of hundred words, not pages.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:29 PM ^
I am guessing any image search with the word ball in it didn't last too long before the porn. You probably only had to go through a page or so, but props anyway.
This post was the perfect excuse to use the full potential of the internet.
and if anything, the rest of your comment made even more sense.
Heh. Norm MacDonald's new sports show is less funny than I'd hoped, but he did an adorable bit on this when his editors supposedly couldn't find a story about a female reporter needing the heimlich. He innocently googled "Woman choking" and when that got too many results he added "on meat" to the end of it and repeated the search.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
...but i like it. now please to make pulling guards work good.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:36 PM ^
I would comment on his singular desire to beat Ohio State might put us back in the days where we'd throw everything towards winning that game and then lose a bowl game. But hell, if we are beating Ohio State again, that means we're really good. Sign me up.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:37 PM ^
to wear anything red unless it has a winged wheel on it.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:49 PM ^
I make an exception for winged tires as well.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:42 PM ^
You have to respect Hoke's enduring distaste for osu. As a Wolverine resident of Columbus, I refuse to wear anything red. He could be the real deal. Hopefully.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:46 PM ^
I like chilli dogs too.
BH "gets it" B1G champs here we come.
April 20th, 2011 at 12:47 PM ^
April 20th, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
I can't embed this photo, but in the fourth image in this photo gallery, Hoke is clearly wearing a red polo shirt but he's covered it up with a gray pullover.
He's wearing scarlet and covering it with grey! What to do?
(good find)
And there's another photo on that same webpage that shows Hoke shaking hands with Lloyd Carr: further proof that Hoke hates Michigan.
/s (I've learned that these are necessary)
April 20th, 2011 at 12:58 PM ^
to new heights of frivolosity (fri-velocity?) G-force frivelocity. But it's notable for the way Brian turns on a dime in the middle of catching Hoke out as a lyin scalawag and strokes him for. . . what. . . not wearin' a LOT o' red. . . if the internets are any indication?
We need content.
You were looking for "frivolity."
Or frivelociraptor. One of the two. Probably yours.
I went to a private school who's colors were green and "gold" (see yellow). However, the actual town I grew up in school's colors are blue and white. Thier big cheer is "go big blue". its plastered on the side of the team bus. Their 2 biggest rivals wear red and white, red being the primary color of the scheme. This felt good to be around. I will always believe that a part of that region belongs to Michigan.
I spelled their incorrectly and correctly. It's my achilles heel. Get over it.
You also used the edit button incorrectly.
...over that, but "who's" instead of "whose"? That's just expecting too much.
April 21st, 2011 at 10:27 AM ^
I didn't catch that one.
There are going to be some (Brian, included) that think that this is plain stupid. There are going to be others that love this. I am in the latter bucket. I love that even when this guy was not at Michigan, he had a hatred of OSU. As a M fan, I find that awesome. I also hate OSU, and maybe the renewed focus in the rivalry will help. Certainly can't hurt.
I know that many will take the media's fawning over Hoke "getting" the OSU rivalry as a dig against RR not "getting it." Buy why look at it that way? Why not just be happy that we have a coach that hates OSU as much as we do and leave it at that, without any comparison to RR.
For four years and two coaching searches you've asked yourself, Who is Brady Hoke? He is a man who loves Michigan. He is a man who does not sacrifice values to land prized recruits. He is a man who plans to save us from our destroyed world where we play no defense...
Rittenberg wrote.
But this has to be one of the silliest stories so far this year.
The "This is why Brady Hoke gets it" meme is the absolute, perfect bookend to the "This is why Rich Rodriguez didn't get it" meme. Completely content-free.
We've gotten down to polo-shirt colors, "feelings" of alumni players, press conference appearances... Guh.
If indeed aspiring to the Michigan HC job has been such an all-consuming desire on the part of Brady Hoke (?!), I suppose that I hope he really does a great job at it.
Pray tell, what else is there to write about in the Michigan football world on April 20?
It's like you've never seen an offseason scraping-the-barrel story before. It's nothing new, and nothing outrageous.
My thinking is that yeah, this might be one of those odd little stories that gets posted on the uniwatch blog or something like that. They do stuff like this. Slow news day and all.
What I find most curious is that Brady Hoke is an active, willing participant in this story; that he really did avoid wearing red (whether he truly did or not, is not something I'd have bothered to fact-check) by his own acknowledgement. It's clearly now Brady Hoke's own self-proclaimed story, that his unforgettable eight years as a DL coach in Ann Arbor changed his life and his wardrobe forever. What I am wondering is if he threw away all of his Nikes and changed to adidas in 2008. Because a real Michigan Man would have done that.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^
You're such an idiot.
So there's that.
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