Brady Hoke Michigan HC Trivia
When Brady Hoke was hired in 2011 his 0-1 record against Michigan, by way of a 2006 loss while head coach at Ball State, made him the first Michigan head coach since Gary Moeller in 1979 to have coached a game against Michigan.
Fritz Crisler coached the 1930 and 1931 Minnesota teams to losses against Harry Kipke coached Michigan.
Harry Kipke like his successor Crisler coached the 1928 MSU team to a 3-0 loss against Michigan. He became the head coach at Michigan the next season.
Frank Crawford became the first coach to coach against Michigan after previously being head coach in 1891 by leading the 1892 Wisconsin teams to a loss against his former team.
George Little joined Crawford by losing to Michigan as head coach of Wisconsin in 1925 and 1926 after previously being the Michigan coach in 1924.
Any other interesting Michigan HC Trivia?
Go Blue!
EDIT 2: Forgot about Moeller at Illinois.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
But, honestly, M trivia seems like a good way to pass the time until 5 days from now.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
August 25th, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
yourself a root canal for Friday. The weekend will be here before you know it.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
August 25th, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
was on Moeller's staff at Illinois, so technically.....
August 25th, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who hired Bo at 31 Flavors many years ago. I guess it's pretty serious.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
Trivia Q: Michigan ran a successful fake FG (which was a 7-yard run up the middle by Philip Brabbs) against Utah on a drive that culminated in a Chris Perry fumble at the 1. Who was the holder on the fake FG?
August 25th, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
I believe it was our favorite QB statue: John Navarre
August 25th, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
Correct! Perhaps that was too easy for this group.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:39 PM ^
We all know that Michigan has never played Appalachian State. If Michigan were to lose to Appalachian State on Saturday, Appalachian State would have a 1-0 record against Michigan.
What other schools on Michigan's current and future schedules has Michigan never played?
#notjustariverinegypt
August 26th, 2014 at 9:33 AM ^
There is one team on this year's schedule, besides Appalachian State obviously, that we've never played: our new conference-mate, Rutgers. So I'll follow that up with another question: what other team had we never played before they joined the Big Ten?
On future schedules, we've never played UNLV (2015), UCF (2016), or Cincinnati (2017).
We've also never played Florida (2017) or Arkansas (2018) in the regular season, only in bowl games. And we've only played SMU (2018) once, in 1963.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
This Louisiana native who played for Lloyd Carr currently coaches high school football in Michigan and shares the last name of a current offenseive player (one vowel in the name is different, but pronunciation is the same).
August 25th, 2014 at 1:04 PM ^
Who is Ron Bellamy?
August 25th, 2014 at 1:25 PM ^
CORRECTAMUNDO!
August 25th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
Feels like he's improved that record. In a way.
August 25th, 2014 at 12:47 PM ^
I've never put together that Hoke coached that Ball State team in 2006. Back in the quaint, old days when we weren't challenged by MAC teams, that game was terrifying. It was just a couple of weeks before the 2006 OSU showdown, and Ball State gave Michigan a serious test in Ann Arbor.
August 25th, 2014 at 9:55 PM ^
I can still barely believe Ball State scored 26 on that defense
August 26th, 2014 at 12:18 AM ^
August 25th, 2014 at 2:15 PM ^
it shouldn't come as a surprise. He loved playing down to his competition. After watching a couple of last year's game, it is my hope that Brady doesn't consider this part of the Tradition that is Michigan.
August 25th, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
Are we talking about the same Lloyd Carr who lost a total of one game (1996 Purdue) to opponents with losing records?
August 25th, 2014 at 4:25 PM ^
If we were to look at Lloyd's career objectively, we'd probably have to conclude that he coached during an era when Michigan fans were at their most entitled and unrealistic. For all the frustration fans felt during his tenure (and many probably still do), he certainly put together some great teams.
I remember back in '05 there was a site called sackcarr.com or something like that. The first line on the site that justified it's own existance started with, "Big Ten titles are nice, but . . ." That pretty much exemplifies the unbearable attitude many fans had.
August 25th, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
Would you call OSU fans unrealistic when they were complaining about Bruce and Cooper? I didn't think so.
This program should be contending for national titles the majority of the time. We were not doing that under Lloyd save 1997 and 2006.
August 26th, 2014 at 9:49 AM ^
So the '98 10-win, Big Ten title season meant nothing?
The '99 10-win, Orange Bowl champions season meant nothing?
The 2000 Big Ten title season meant nothing?
The 2002 10-win season meant nothing?
The 2003 10-win, Big Ten title season meant nothing?
The 2004 Big Ten title season meant nothing?
Seriously, if Michigan were hunting for a head coach right now, and some wise soothsayer were to say about a particular candidate, "This man will coach for 13 years. And in those 13 years he will bring you 5 Big Ten titles, a National Title, will take his team to a bowl every season, will never lose more than 3 conference games in any season, and his teams will be nationally ranked for all but 9 weeks out of his entire tenture," you wouldn't step over your own mother to hire that man on the spot?
August 26th, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^
Most of those big ten titles came after either dropping a nonconference game or early big ten game. Aren't we the winningest program in history? I think we should be in contention for a national title more than twice in 13 years. Meaning ranked in the top five in November. We were the only big time program to not make a bcs national title game. Meanwhile our biggest rival made 3.
August 26th, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
Not sure I can argue with someone who would poo-poo a Big 10 title season due to something as arbitrary as an early-season loss.
August 26th, 2014 at 7:55 PM ^
Not sure why people are fine with 10-3 rose bowl loss seasons as the ceiling. We have the second most profitable athletic department in the nation. We have the resources to compete for national titles...yet we don't do it very often. The ultimate goal should be a national title. Not a big ten title.
August 25th, 2014 at 1:28 PM ^
August 25th, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^
I don't believe so.
August 26th, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^
I'll likely get negged for this since it implies that Hoke is a poor evaluator of talent, but facts are facts.
Brady Hoke evaluated Jake Ryan when he was HC at San Diego and concluded that Ryan DID NOT warrant a scholarship offer. Ryan is now arguably the best overall football player on Michigan's 115-man roster.
August 26th, 2014 at 6:33 PM ^
A coach once got a recruiting evaluation wrong? Stop the presses.