Hoke press conference televised on ESPN @12:30

Awesome, i hope this becomes a weekly ESPN tradition untill he is fired. I don't think this is the kind of attention DB wants, but who knows?

Failing publicly, especially on a big stage, is one of my great irrational fears (irrational because I will never be on a big stage). 

with a straight face "We're going to be a good football team!"

is a real QB.  DG scares no one .... sad but true.  Count your own personal WTF's vs. OMG's when it comes to Devin.  F'ing great kid - but not anything close to a differnece maker QB.

Go Blue!

I think Wojo asked this question, in the context of asking whether Hoke thinks there's a feeling of "crisis" around the program now. Hoke said something about not really thinking about that, and then tossed out, "Did you think we'd be in the Sugar Bowl in year one?" Seemed pretty defiant to me, throwing out that Sugar Bowl reference.

The problem is, Hoke DID establish, on the very day he took the job, where we all should think and expect this program to be in year four (and every other year) -- competing for a Big Ten championship. Is anyone still deluding themselves about the likelihood of that for this year's team, under the current regime?

Maybe someone in charge of ESPN programming is a Michigan fan and is worried that not enough people realize how much of a bumbling idiot Brady Hoke is. Maybe the Michigan fan ESPN programming dude is trying to Push the court of public opinion into such a conviction of Hoke's buffoonery that DB has no choice but to fire Hoke. I still would not be surprised for DB to extend Hoke rather than fire him. I have less faith in Brandon than hoke at this point.

They just realeased Brady Hoke's T-shirt for next week's press conference.

 

Gardner wants to play better.

 

 

Hoke on Gardner: "Has he made perfect decisions? No, but he wants too."

Did anyone really expect Hoke to get up there and say "Well, I'm a terrible coach and our football team is bad"?

We are less than 24hrs outside a Cowboys win and ESPN breaks into nonstop coverage to show us Brady Hoke?  Someone at ESPN must have suffered a stroke and hit the wrong button, or DB just trolled them.  I can't think of a single time during the darkest hours of RR that ESPN was breaking in on a Monday to give him a national platform.  Whelp, that was 15min I'll never get back.

Isn't that the bottom line? Hoke talks a lot about how this team's primary goal is to win the Big 10. So, OK, Brady...this is your Year 4. Win the damn thing already.

It's depressing when Michigan can't take advantage of an overall miserable conference.

so played by the Ohio State contingent at ESPN.

 

 

Press conferences are such a waste of time for coaching staff.. without a winning season, they can never look good at a presser, they can only try to avoid looking too bad.  I'd rather give them time to go over film, anything but this.  Let Brandon handle the pressers, he's the PR guy, and let the coaches do what they are paid to do.  As for ESPN, they are sniffing around for some possible drama, it's not like they have insider knowledge of anything.  LIke the story someone posted yesterday, complete speculation (and rehashed speculation at that) - it's not like the reporter had any sources for anything.  You see that a lot these days.

Recruiting, schmoozing with alums and fans, and generally representing the university well.

Unfortunately, he is terrible at producing a good product on the field.

So maybe this is 2nd best.

I read a few of the comments but not all, so someone may have too chef on it. But I think this may have less to do with anything beyond ESPN protecting their interests. Right now their interests are those sec schools they invested so heavily in. They broadcast this stuff and create uncertainty in the minds of committed recruits, then sec schools amongst others can point to it as "see... Hoke is gone."
And maybe ESPN has nothing better to air.