January 16th, 2016 at 5:51 PM ^
Hope Duck fans are ready to hear we just didnt execute.
January 16th, 2016 at 5:52 PM ^
But we had a GREAT week of practice.....
January 16th, 2016 at 5:56 PM ^
Or "he's got a boo boo". I wonder what he's going to call Oregon State now lol
January 16th, 2016 at 6:16 PM ^
He's going to call them Oregon... Naturally
January 16th, 2016 at 6:30 PM ^
....but do they call themselves THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE orgeon state university???
January 16th, 2016 at 7:29 PM ^
is he going to walk to Oregon?
January 16th, 2016 at 8:41 PM ^
whos the down voting nacy?
January 16th, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^
what's a nacy?
January 16th, 2016 at 10:46 PM ^
Don't be an asshole.
January 16th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
Sorry man, there's typos and then there's drunk typing. gotta call that one...
You always ride to the defense of our douchiest - I'll give you that!
January 16th, 2016 at 11:28 PM ^
I wish I was drunk. It was just a typo.
January 16th, 2016 at 11:39 PM ^
Sorry Bruh, if you ain't drunk you don't call people out for down voting you.
And don't call people nacy - that's just so Staee
January 16th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^
I meant to say nancy and neat! I'll do what I want..
January 17th, 2016 at 12:06 AM ^
Not on this blog you won't, Friend-o... we got rules
(Friend-o in honor of the coin "toss" in the GB-AZ game ;-)
January 17th, 2016 at 2:46 AM ^
Yeah... There was someone who negged the whole thread I couldn't care less about myself just thought it was funny someone was butt hurt. Guess it was you
January 17th, 2016 at 3:22 AM ^
I made my thoughts & comments quite plain, I didn't anonymously neg anyone.
Crying that people neg you is just not done in my book.
Calling people who neg you Nancy is beneath this blog.
Spelling it nacy is downright RCMB.
Whoever negged us both doesn't get the friend-o reference AND didn't see the OT of AZ-GB, and is therefore someone neither of us needs concern ourselves with.
G'night
January 17th, 2016 at 10:24 AM ^
Neato!
January 17th, 2016 at 11:20 AM ^
And this is different from "He's working through something" how exactly? He tried to be funny in his non-answer. So what?
January 16th, 2016 at 6:02 PM ^
I don't understand the endless invective some people love to heap on Hoke. Yeah, he was very bad head coach here and deserved to be fired. But the dead horse is...dead. Let's all move on with our lives.
January 16th, 2016 at 6:20 PM ^
You mean like how people on here have moved on from RR? Moving on isn't a strong point of this or really any message board.
January 16th, 2016 at 8:17 PM ^
I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with critiquing an ex-coach in purely coaching terms. (We often use the term "Amakeresque" to describe really bad basketball possessions, for instance.) Pointing out that Hoke's offenses and Richrod's defenses were poor shouldn't be beyond the pale.
With Hoke, though, it seems like a subset of fans here likes to go a lot further than that and take ad hominem shots at him, mocking his appearance, intelligence and so forth. (It doesn't seem to happen as often with RichRod, although now and then you get a "Dickrod" post, which usually gets rightly negbanged.) That is beneath us. This is a man who was a longtime assistant here and served on our last national championship team. We can respect him even if we acknowledge that he wasn't the best head coach.
January 16th, 2016 at 8:37 PM ^
I think that the difference between the RR and Hoke nasty criticisms is the time distance. A year after RR was fired there was a lot of nasty stuff here. Now, less so, in addition to the greater passage of time, due to the year-to-year decline of Hoke, RRs relative success at Arizona, and the Harbaugh effect.
I had hoped that RR would be successful here, and was neutral to his firing and was against Hoke's hiring as I didn't think he was qualified but I still am hopeful that both will find success in their positions in the PAC12.
Rodriquez and Hoke are both decent men that tried to serve the University of Michigan well. At the very least they both deserve that recognition and respect for their efforts in Ann Arbor.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:31 PM ^
He will serve the Ducks well I think. No Brandon questioning his every move at least.
I'd bet the DL will be solid at least.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:34 PM ^
+1 to you sir. These jokes have only been seen on here a bazillion times.
January 16th, 2016 at 6:25 PM ^
Keep in mind some of the good things Hoke did. Like reeling in Peppers, Lewis and Butt.
January 16th, 2016 at 7:18 PM ^
And the entirety of the unstoppable force that is out Dline
January 16th, 2016 at 6:28 PM ^
Brady Hoke loved Michigan and put his heart and soul into the HC position here. He was part of the NC in 1997. Yet people continue to make fun of him and make jokes about him. I think we're all better people than that.
January 16th, 2016 at 6:30 PM ^
You ever met The_Mad_Hatter?
January 16th, 2016 at 8:16 PM ^
You ever met Texagander?
January 17th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^
Find a joke I've ever made about Coach Hoke on this blog. I'll wait.
In fact, find me any malicious joke I've made about anyone associated with Michigan.
Ok, there have been some RR jokes, but he really doesn't count.
January 16th, 2016 at 6:39 PM ^
Totally agree...Hoke just wasn't ready for a stage like Michigan
January 17th, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^
who the boss is, always matters
January 16th, 2016 at 6:29 PM ^
very bad.
January 16th, 2016 at 6:41 PM ^
Then I guess it's a good thing he's the DC - at OREGON!!!
I'm so glad he's not our HC anymore & Harbaugh is, but I was pretty surprised to see the 1st several comments on here were derision rather than congrats.
Bad show! That's not MY Michigan... Congrats Coach Hoke, may we meet again - in the CFP!
January 16th, 2016 at 7:18 PM ^
If you pay me millions of dollars and I fail miserably as the head coach would you be rooting for me? Sorry, he's a big boy, he can handle the much deserved criticism.
If you want to congratulate him for getting another ridiculously high paying job that's cool.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^
Yeah, I think I do wanna congratulate him - in fact I'm pretty sure I did!
It wasn't "criticism" I was criticizing - it was derision. There is a difference.
IF you feel Hoke's lack of success at Michigan means you could never wish him well or congratulate him on a new job ever again in perpetuity, then that's your prerogative - but it's NOT cool. That is NOT the Michigan difference to my mind!
And FYI - tossing out the money as a reason is just a canard. They ALL make millions, what's it got to do with anything? If he succeeds as DC at Oregon is he still "ridiculously" over paid? Is Harbaugh? Urbz? All of them in comparison with a teacher or firefighter?
January 16th, 2016 at 8:04 PM ^
If he were being hired for another major-conference HC job, I could understand you. But he's qualified for this job. Defense was not the problem for his teams when he was here. And if he's involved in coaching the DL at Oregon, we have every reason to believe he'll do really well with them.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:10 PM ^
Actually I'm not sure how qualified he is - guy never wears a headset or calls plays. Not sure we have any solid evidence on his Xs and Os.
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January 16th, 2016 at 10:17 PM ^
he is qualified. are qualified to judge?
January 16th, 2016 at 7:53 PM ^
He wasn't a bad coach, he won a bcs bowl game. just super mediocre. Dave Brandon still sucks taint
January 16th, 2016 at 11:36 PM ^
Yeah, ok, he was bad. Dave Brandon was worse
January 17th, 2016 at 1:41 AM ^
This is an important point. Let's see how Hoke performs with a boss who supports him instead of undermining him or hanging him out to dry.
You can color me skeptical about Hoke's abilities as a DC. But working under Dave Brandon would be a nightmare and he deserves a shot.
January 16th, 2016 at 8:23 PM ^
I'd say no with exception to the Shane Morris incident. I'd say Funk and gorges Al fucked things up royally there. He'll do okay as a d coordinator there I'd think. Time will tell. Still a damn good guy though. ;)
January 16th, 2016 at 10:53 PM ^
Is this a serious question? I'm all for not piling on the guy; but he was a TURRIBLE in-game coach. Hope he kills it at OR.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:25 PM ^
I guess I wish I were a more forgiving person, but I'm not, and there it is.
His teams - their lack of preparation, their disorganization, their lack of adequate technique and mental toughness were embarrassments to the university. I hate seeing kids who choose Michigan hung out to dry by coaches unequal to the task. There were so many aspects of his program that did not meet the standards of excellence created by those who came before him.
I appreciate that his players graduated at an excellent rate, but when it came to being a very public face of the university, he embarrassed us on multiple occasions.
He absolutely shoveled dirt on our part of the rivalry with the team I hate the most - to the point where we have so far to go to catch up to them that only the miracle that is Harbaugh makes me think we can defy the odds and basic reason to do just that.
He put jet fuel into the rise of the insufferable D'antonio. That roster would look markedly different if he had been better at his job.
His teams got physically dominated by our main rivals, which is inexcusable.
Player after player saw their potential squandered and underdeveloped - careers were damaged by how poor that staff was at developing talent.
A real capper was knowing McDowell was right to tell his family that it was what it was - he had a choice between a sure fire path to the NFL and disappointment and poor coaching on the other hand.
I don't actively root for him to fail, of course - that would be cruel and unnecessary. But I just don't have the warm fuzzies for the guy. He was paid an awful lot of money to fail this program badly. His failure to recognize just how short of the mark he was in ridculous press conference after ridiculous press conference just made it all the more frustrating. He always thought he was just about there, almost there. He was never remotely close.
January 16th, 2016 at 9:49 PM ^
This post is full of hyperbole, conjecture, and unqualifiable statements. It's basically bullshit.