Hoke Presser at 12:30 streaming on MGoBlue

Hoke has refused to answer most questions and shown zero remorse for the manner in which Shane's head trauma was handled.  He refused to address how head injuries are handled on the sidelines and seems unwilling to say how any head injury would be ascertained, saying it is up to the players to decide if they need to come out, acknowledging that head trauma has to be handled differently but refusing to give any clue as to how that might be determined or who should be watching for it.  Amazing!  Defensive.  Arrogant.  And totally unacceptable.

Hoke used very, very few "well..." structures. It's clear that he was coached for this. Despite the coaching, he's in such a bad situation that there are no effective answers.

It's hard to watch someone suffer like that and not sympathize. I'm confident that leaving Morris in after the targeting hit caused his noggin to smash the ground was mere negligence. Hoke doesn't seem like a guy who would ever say "your best isn't good enough." Unfortunately, it's just too true for him. 

no questions about "why was Morris even in the game at the point the late hit occured when it was clear he was overwhelmed, hobbled, and inffective, and you had a healthy Devin Gardner as a plan B?  Were you just trying to prove a point to someone instead of trying to win the game?  If you were trying to win the game, did you really think you had the best chance with Shane after 100 yards of offense in the 1st half?  After the phantom fumble?  etc?"

I'm getting pissed about the head-injury firestorm mostly because it's distracting from the underlying football incompetence issues-- and this presser was a perfect example.

Nuss starting now. This should be interesting.

WTF, how many times was he going to say that it is up to teenagers to decide whether they are hurt and should come out?

There's a reason they're not old enough to drink.  But they're old enough to be their own doctors?

There's no other way to say this, and I say this as someone who despises casual misuse of the word "literally" but...

Brady Hoke is literally Hodor.

Also...

Pyongyang's Ministry of Propoganda thinks that Michigan's athletic department is a dissembling bunch of tone-deaf shitmongers.

Targeting hit (Hoke said it was) + Wobble = Possible concussion.

There is no way he could know at that moment if Shane was stumbling due to ankle or head.  There is no way the medical staff could have fully evaluated him for a possible concussion between the time he left the game and when he re-entered for a play.

Missing the hit in the heat of the battle is bad.  Not seeing any error in the process of the medical evaluation given the facts outlined above is way worse.

No player is going to voluntarily come out of a football game. These kids are competitors and will compete til the very last down. It's up to the coaches to step in and say "woah there, buddy. You need to just sit here and get checked out by the trainers."

Just this Friday night, we had a kid come off the field after a massive hit where he layed on the field for a couple of minutes and tell us that he was "fine" and "good to go."

Brady Hoke is pretty much saying that's all we should have needed to put him back in the game. Anybody else would say "not until you get checked out by a doctor, son."

Welp, I was defending what happened based on the fact that he didn't see the hit and so saw the possible concussion symptoms as hurt ankle symptoms.

All he had to do today was say 'I didn't see it in real time, but after watching the film, we should've had him out of there.' Wouldn't have been good enough for some people here, but I would've been ok with that.

Unfortunately, he didn't have it in him to say it.

Will Shane Morris or Ben Braden or Khalid Hill or Justice Hayes be available to speak with the media about the incident when Morris looked wobbly on Saturday?

With Shane Morris suffering from a high ankle sprain, (a) does Russell Bellomy become the backup quarterback and (b) would Wilton Speight become next in line?

Are there plans to arrange for each player who's not in the game to always know where his helmet is located?

What have you heard from players about their players-only meeting?

Because this is the first season ever in which Michigan has lost three games before October, what are you doing differently now to make sure that your players remain enthusiastic and focused?

Do you have any plans to change the offensive scheme to take advantage of the skills your players have shown in games to date?

(For Doug Nussmeier) Do you have any plans to watch a game from the booth?  If not, why not?

What's your impression of ways that you think the offense can improve?

What was the reason for Kyle Magnuson's benching against Minnesota?

Has the year away from football adversely impacted Will Hagerup's punting skills in ways that might not be correctable this year?

Is Desmond Morgan going to be taking this season as a medical redshirt year?

The silver lining - because I've been desperately searching for one - is that it's prompted some pretty funny twitter reactions.

I think Nuss just said that he wanted a timeout.  

Let me see if I understand Hoke on this one.  Morris is expected to tell somebody he wants to come out but Devin is told to "stop limping" in last year's OSU game because "nobody needs to see that".

So basically under Hoke your a pussy if you limp with a broken fucking foot and you're suppose to self-diagnose concussions?  I wonder if Hoke told Morris on Saturday to "stop blinking and walking like your drunk because nobody wants to see that."

Sounds like Michigan's PR and damage control playbook is from the 1980's too.

This press conference has DB's fingerprints all over it. 

Where is this elusive medical team statement?