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Is great better than tremendous? I thought it was the other way around? Like Legendary>Stupendous>Tremendous>Excellent>terrific>great>good>ok>average>poor.

I think it was his 2 hour turned 5 hour interview with Hoke as opposed to pure luck. Say what you want about Dominoes pizza, but it is a very successful business. If Dave Brandon were as incompetent as portrayed, he would not have had that success.

And also the story behind the sub .500 record kind of helps as well. A pure position coach turned head coach at a school that sucks harder than an octopus tentacle that also doesn't give a crap about football? Yeah, his record is going to be pretty terrible to start. Getting that team ranked and in BCS contention? Impressive. Losing to 4 highly ranked teams (one of which beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl) by a total of 15 points at another mildly crappy school? That's also pretty damn impressive. You kind of have to look beyond W-L's when looking at a coach. It's easy to not do that and many prefer to just judge based on W-L's, but that doesn't tell the whole story.

You're right. DB deserves absolutely no credit for Hoke's success. But he does deserve credit for seeing that Hoke could acheive that success.

C'mon. It's not like he pulled a name out of the hat and got lucky. He spent a good deal of time talking to Hoke and talking to other people about Hoke. I think he, like many of our recent recruits, realized what a good and passionate coach Hoke is after spending some time with him.

Please explain to me why hiring Brady Hoke was a terrible decision. Would every head football coach that had a better winning percentage than Hoke  have been a better choice in your eyes? 

I presume DB did more than just look at the win/loss column of all of the various head coaches to make his decision.  He actually talked/interviewed candidates and based on that information, he decided Hoke was the best man for the job. 

We do not know what the hiring process really was.  We presume it was Miles/Harbaugh/Hoke and nobody else because that is the meme that has been constructed here.   Why can't you give DB the benefit of the doubt and believe that he is capable of finding a diamond in the rough rather than assume he sucks and got lucky?  

Is there some DB hiring precedent that leads you to believe he could only get lucky?  Where is he bragging that he's a great AD (pro gambler)?

Most of this site's vitriol toward DB is based on over-blown slights (he said his door was open to players, but it wasn't), game experience quibbles (RAWK muzak), slippery slope-type things (stadium advertising), and general who-really-gives-a-shit bs (mascot!)