Hoke on "The Herd", about noon or so

I think I just heard him point on the radio!

I was just rewatching some of Inside Michigan Football from this season (I really still don't know how we pulled off that ND win), and I swear he started almost every answer with "Well".  I couldn't believe how often he said it until I started to pay attention.  It was, well, tremendous.

Colin: Health issues? That's a ton of hours.

Hoke: I'm very fortunate. My wife helps, she's a blessing. You've got to keep it in perspective and help the kids grow, but you have to make sure the coaches keep getting time with their families.

Colin: Do you look at OSU differently with Urban instead of Tressel?

Hoke: We'll always have great respect for OHIO.

Colin: Rematch LSU v Bama? What do you think about rematches?

Hoke: You'll see it here in the B1G with Ohio and us on opposite divisions. It's exciting and the landscape continues to change. Everyone has so much passion.

Colin: Night gamez. Moar plz.

Hoke: Generic coachspeak.

Dude, let it go.

"The progress that RR made"???  Year, we really showed a ton of progress in our Gator Bowl humiliation.  Or in the OSU humiliation game that immediately preceded the Gator Bowl humiliation.  Or in the Wisco humiliation game that immediately preceded the OSU humiliation game which immediately preceded the Gator Bowl humiliation.

That was some progress there. 

As to LC "gutting the roster," you do realize that when LC left, the offense - which was the problem in 2008 - was returning a #1 in the nation QB in Mallet, future NFL wide-outs in Manningham and Arrington (although i think that Mario was gone regardless), and a good number of supporting players.  Sadly, those players ALL left when RR came to town and (1) immediately fired every single member of the prior coaching staff, and (2) imposed his spread option offense on players so ill suited to run it that we lost to Toledo.  Then, RR didn't make matters better with his relatively poor recruiting and his inability to retain a fair number of the better players that he personally recruited. 

Sorry, let's not re-write history.  In Lloyd's second-to-last season, he was a Crable late hit away from playing for the NC.  In his last season, despite injuries to his starting QB and RB, after a disastrous first two games, we ended up with 9 wins and beat the FLorida team that won the NC the prior year in our bowl.  Lloyd averaged 9.3 wins over his career, and turned in top 20 recruiting classes in every single season.  If Lloyd were the coach in 2008, you can bet we win a lot more than 3 games, keep our bowl streak alive, and don;t allow MSU to stockpile the instate talent that just propelled them to the B10 CG.

On a final note, if RR is there, we don't win 10 games.  Hell, maybe we don't win 7.  Because:  (1) who was going to coach the D?  No self respecting DC would EVER have come, given RR's mismanagement and meddling, and RR has already shown that he was going to retain his crappy assistants; and (2) our offense under RR was so one-dimensional that Denard was never going to make it deep into the schedule without getting the crap kicked out of him like he did in 2010.

I remember when I first heard Common Man & Torg and couldn't stand them...and then they really grew on me.  Although they are homers, they'll call a spade a spade (especially in regards to Tressel, Pryor, Posey, etc.).  Easily the best part of my evening commute.

I about died when they had Stone Cold Steve Austin on the show, and he mentioned Tressel and how he thought he was a good coach.  After the interview, Common Man said "When he mentioned Tress...it moved a little down there."

as well, but they are huge homers (torg is my favorite). Also, Neft is a moron of biblical proportions.

I don't know that Neft is appreciably more of a toolbag than the rest of the crew, but I only hear bits and pieces of him on my commute home sometimes.  Also, these are Columbus sports talk DJs so we're splitting hairs here.

I only really started listening to 97.1 this year when I could get drunk on Tatgate schadenfreude.  Interestingly enough, I don't think he's from Ohio, so he probably has to fake his Buckeye enthusiasm to some extent.  

Is your college friend his producer Alicia the Fan Gril?  I almost feel sorry for her, having to spend several hours in a radio booth with Neft, but then I remember that she's probably a Casey Anthony-type Buckeye fan (w/o the whole infanticide bit, to her credit) and then I don't feel that bad for her anymore.