Hoke Isn't Going to Get Another Job This Year, is He?
Aside from being part of the initial laundry lists at Colorado State and Oregon State, have we heard one word about a possible landing spot for Brady Hoke?
He's seriously limited on potential options. He's not a successful Power 5 coach, so those jobs are out. He's not a coordinator, so those jobs are out.
That leaves the San Diego States and Youngstown States of the world. Bo Pelini snapped up the one good job that was available on that level.
So what are you hearing about Hoke? Is he going to be Tommy Amaker (good guy who lands in a quirky situation and succeeds), or is he going to be Brian Ellerbee (guy who just disappears. Totally disappears.)?
What becomes of Hoke? Anyone hearing anything?
December 26th, 2014 at 10:51 PM ^
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December 26th, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^
Sounds like at least 1 (based on Searchbits XXIX) of the current staff will be back. Just because Hoke failed in his job as Head Coach means everyone was a failure.
December 27th, 2014 at 12:45 AM ^
I see Mattison moving on....but he is certainly qualfied to stay if the next coach wanted to retain him (and Mattison had mutual interest to stay)
December 27th, 2014 at 3:28 AM ^
his family set down some pretty big roots here. plus his age makes me think a coordinator job is out of the question.
December 27th, 2014 at 2:05 AM ^
Sam Webb has been hinting that GMatt might be back as a LBs/Co-DC with the Co-DC being mainly a title thing (like Fickell at OSU). His family is very attached to the A2 area at present kids/grandkids. He and Manning (the other most likely to be retained imo) are great recruiters and seem like decent coaches as well.
No offense to the man.... but I hope it is time for Freddy J. to move on. Time for some new blood at RB coach.
December 27th, 2014 at 3:34 AM ^
ole tyrone wheatley will be joining the staff as rb's coach
December 27th, 2014 at 8:26 AM ^
December 27th, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^
is a former Michigan player from the end of the Bo era. Although he was the DB coach, and as the DBs were the weak link of the D.......
December 27th, 2014 at 7:11 AM ^
December 27th, 2014 at 7:54 AM ^
He'll probably spend next year in the NFL doing that.
December 27th, 2014 at 9:04 AM ^
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December 26th, 2014 at 11:08 PM ^
If anyone would do that move it would be Hoke though.
December 27th, 2014 at 3:54 AM ^
Agree 100percent!!!!!!!!!! I can't ever understand why any person in their right mind actually thinks that the coach who just got fired would stay on and become a D line coach. One that is just dumb to think and two Hoke couldn't even get our D Line to perform when he was head coach. Why in the hell would we want him here coaching them? Talking to recruits parents and staff members from other teams they all said the techniques that were being taught at Michigan by Hoke and staff were 10yrs old and outdated.
December 27th, 2014 at 6:02 AM ^
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December 27th, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^
So did Coach Yost in "Remember the Titans."
No way Hoke should be the DL coach next year. He shouldn't want it. The new coach shouldn't want it.
5-7 years from now when the last kid Hoke ever recruited is long gone, maybe, but not now.
December 26th, 2014 at 10:59 PM ^
I wonder if an NFL team would look at him as a Dline coach.
December 26th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
December 26th, 2014 at 11:08 PM ^
Or his 3 million dollar buyout
December 26th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
He'll sit out a year with his nice paycheck from Michigan, and pick something up next year. There are a few million reasons why he has very little to worry about.
December 27th, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^
December 27th, 2014 at 9:40 AM ^
...to get buyouts from several more schools before he can afford to roll with C-Weis. That guy never picks up the check.
December 27th, 2014 at 10:19 AM ^
He picks up a lot of checks - from his mailbox. One from Notre Dame, one from Kansas, etc.
December 26th, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
December 26th, 2014 at 10:58 PM ^
Agree ... but if you had to guess, does he re-enter as HC, coordinator, or position coach?
December 26th, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
I think he'll only ever be a head coach. He's never been a coordinator - and I think he'd be a bad one - and he's not going to humble himself again to coach the D-Line for Kansas or something like that. So it's HC or bust. He has to go back to a Ball State or a San Diego State.
December 26th, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^
December 27th, 2014 at 8:29 AM ^
"... built it up from nothing ..."
That's some goofy revisionist history. In his lightning-in-a-bottle year (12-2) he took the school to new heights, but if you look at the rest of the years he was just slightly better than the previous guy. The school fell off a cliff when he left.
You'd be better off using San Diego State as an example. It *appears* that he changed the culture for the better there and lifted them to another level (which has been maintained well by Rocky Long).
December 26th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^
December 27th, 2014 at 11:58 AM ^
The Michigan fan in me is glad Pitt hired Narduzzi, just to get him away from MSU.
The rest of my family (a Pitt family) and I agree with them from a football perspective would have rather Hoke been hired at Pitt.
Hoke has to ask himself this question, "Would I rather be a HC at a school with medium expectations and 30,000 fans at games, our would I rather be a DL coach at a powerhouse and 100,000 fans?"
Me personally, I'd rather be the DL coach at Florida, Texas, Alabama, USC, Penn State, etc. than the head coach at Pitt, Virginia, UConn, Wyoming, Ball State, etc.
December 26th, 2014 at 11:00 PM ^
December 26th, 2014 at 11:35 PM ^
For Brady's sake, I hope he doesn't decide to wait for a WAC coaching position to open up.
December 26th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
Maybe Bump Elliott would have some good ideas for him.
December 26th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
this will never happen, but I would love it if a group photo like this:
would be taken while Bump is still with us. To my knowledge, it's been done twice before: once with the above group of Harry Kipke, Fritz, Bennie, Bump and Bo, and another time with (correct me if I'm wrong) Bump, Bo, Mo, and Lloyd.
Wouldn't it be great if Jim Hackett could gather Bump, Mo, Lloyd, RichRod, Brady and Jim Harbaugh in the stands at the 50 yard line for a similiar shot?
I'm guessing that the tension between Lloyd and Richrod might prevent them from lining up next to each other in such a photo.
December 26th, 2014 at 11:20 PM ^
Man, I've always loved that photo. You've got Harry Kipke - who played for Yost and coached Jerry Ford - connected to Bo. So you've basically got Yost to Bo in that photo.
Brilliant idea. I'd love to see your idea come to fruition. The only guy with a schedule conflict next year will be RichRod, so let's do it during Arizona's bye week.
If Hackett can talk Harbaugh into coming back to Michigan to coach, he can talk RichRod into coming back for a picture.
December 26th, 2014 at 11:26 PM ^
On the subject of Fritz, my great uncle played basketball and baseball at the University of Chicago in the late 1920's. He was the captain of the baseball team his senior year. I found all his team photos on Ancestry.com with Fritz Crisler, the AD. At first I thought he must have been the coach because he was the only "adult" or coach-like figure in the pictures, but perhaps that was just how it was back then - no coach in the picture.
December 26th, 2014 at 11:27 PM ^
I will send Jim Hackett an email and/or letter suggesting it after the hiring of Harbaugh is made official. Maybe the new JMFH has enough magic left over to bring all parties together. After all he's already done, I sure wouldn't call it impossible if in his hands.
December 27th, 2014 at 12:28 AM ^
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December 27th, 2014 at 12:52 AM ^
when Don Canham brought in Bo, yet Bump seemed to have no problem standing next to Bo in both such photos involving a succession of Michigan Football Head Coaches.
December 27th, 2014 at 1:04 AM ^
Only problem is most people still liked Bump because he was a quote unquote Michigan Man still. I don't think Brady would have a problem coming back for a picture someday. Rich Rod is a different story.
December 27th, 2014 at 9:19 AM ^
December 27th, 2014 at 12:13 PM ^
Maybe RR would come back to accept the bowl ring DB denied him.
December 27th, 2014 at 1:11 AM ^
I don't think Bump was fired. I believe he simply told Canham he wanted to leave coaching and go into administration. He soon went on to become Iowa's AD.
I could maybe see Hoke pose for a photo like that, but really doubt RichRod would agree, and I don't really blame him. He probably never wants to come back.
December 26th, 2014 at 10:57 PM ^
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December 26th, 2014 at 11:00 PM ^
This year, for his sake I hope he gets in somewhere, but it looks like head coach at any school in Div 1 is out. He very well may get a gig as DC or DL coach somewhere in NCAA, maybe he can use his brother Jon Hoke or his ties with John Harbaugh to get an NFL gig. In all likelihood, he'll get a gig as Head Coach of a mid major next year.