Will We Keep Anything From Hoke Era? Legacy Jerseys? Calling Them "Ohio"?
In addition to the flat-out stupid stuff - not wearing a headset, clapping like a seal, losing to every team as soon as they join the B1G - the Brady Hoke Era brought us the following innovations:
- Legacy Jerseys (although this was more of a Brandon idea)
- Numbering the teams (Team 135, etc.)
- Calling them "Ohio."
When he's gone, will any of these endure? I see the team-numbering one sticking around, "Ohio" will go away immediately, and legacy jerseys will be gone as soon as the current jersey-holders graduate. What say you?
November 23rd, 2014 at 7:34 AM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 9:41 AM ^
So you don't like about 80 guys on the team?
November 23rd, 2014 at 6:12 PM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 7:40 AM ^
Team numbers will stay too
November 23rd, 2014 at 7:55 AM ^
Let the players make their own legends jersey. That was stupid from the beginning.
November 23rd, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
Yes, could you imagine if Desmond and Charles were never allowed to establish their own legendary numbers from the beginning? What if they were #87 and #48, numbers that had already had identities before them? And then those numbers go back in the legends pile for the next time around.
November 23rd, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
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November 23rd, 2014 at 9:12 AM ^
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November 23rd, 2014 at 10:29 AM ^
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November 23rd, 2014 at 9:11 AM ^
It's a great day to celebrate the past. Other than that, put them up.
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November 23rd, 2014 at 9:16 AM ^
There are two things i'm sick of, "Michigan Man" and "Ohio".
November 23rd, 2014 at 9:16 AM ^
There are two things i'm sick of, "Michigan Man" and "Ohio".
November 23rd, 2014 at 9:17 AM ^
I really don't like the pressure it puts on kids to wear a number of Heisman winners or at least potential winners. Let them make their own legacy. If a kid wears the #98 and is very successful, will he always be remembered as the lesser 98? Let the kids make their own #. Paint a patch on the field if you want to honor #s or ring of honor.
November 23rd, 2014 at 9:28 AM ^
Double post sorry
November 23rd, 2014 at 9:47 AM ^
The stadium, the helmets, the fight song.
November 23rd, 2014 at 10:02 AM ^
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November 23rd, 2014 at 10:35 AM ^
I don't mind the team numbers. If that stays, that's fine.
Ugh, I've hated that "Ohio" term for a while. Just call them that school down south. If our new coach says anything about being a Michigan Man in his intro press conference, I might just cry.
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November 23rd, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
DO NOT EVER call them "that school down south", under any circumstances.
That would just be a pathetic rip off of a lame rip off of Woody Hayes' lame schtick.
November 23rd, 2014 at 10:49 AM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 5:14 PM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 11:42 AM ^
my hatred for Dantonio and Sparty. Before it was bemuement.
November 23rd, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
The whole Hoke era should be locked away in a time capsule and opened before every future coaching search on how to not select a head coach.
November 23rd, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
November 23rd, 2014 at 2:10 PM ^
Everything else can rot in hell.
November 23rd, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^
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November 23rd, 2014 at 2:33 PM ^
I will say that I don't mind the "Ohio" thing , especially if it bothers OSU fans :)
Keeping the legacy jerseys a one game/ year thing, maybe give them to deserving seniors on homecoming or something like that.
I do like the idea of keeping the numbers un-retired, because out of sight, out of mind. How many people really notice that a certain number is not on the roster? Seeing the jersey on the field with the patch, at least 1/year would keep that player or player's history 'fresh' , so to speak.
November 23rd, 2014 at 2:38 PM ^
Re calling that school down south "Ohio". For as long as I've been alive, the crowd has chanted at the end of the last home game immediately prior to the OSU game "Beat Ohio!" This is not something that Hoke simply made up. But, I'd use it only the way it's always been used: for a chant at the penultimate game of the season.
As for the Legends Jerseys, I can take it or leave it, but on balance, I'd prefer that (i) No 1 and No 2 get retired in due course and (ii) the Legends Jerseys are trotted out at Homecoming, and used only for that game once each season.
I'd sh*tcan the alternate/throwback/special jerseys for all time, but I know I'm spitting into the wind on that one.
November 23rd, 2014 at 4:33 PM ^
Unfortunately, all this means nothing if the team was winning. 20 point underdogs seemed unthinkable at the beginning of the season.
November 24th, 2014 at 5:02 PM ^