Maybe Hoke took advice from Joe Dumars?

I'm in basketball mode. Offensive lines are for the birds.

Dude, it's February. This has been rehashed a million times both during and after the season. Football season is a long ways a way and things aren't going to change. The offensive line will be somewhere between awful and maybe not so terrible. Adapt and deal with it.

About time someone addressed this I've been thinking the same thing because in my opinion you could justify the o line coach being let go and keeping the oc. I sure would like to know how nuss feels about funk still being on the staff as well. If last seasons o line problems aren't enough warrant a pink slip I just don't know what is.

w/ that line.  Lost 5 games to 4 teams - Bama, ND, OSU and SC - two that played in the champtionship game and another 2 that finished in the top 8 of the final poll.  We lost to SC w/ something like 10 seconds left on the clock  Only other loss was to Nebraska when Denard went out.  If I'm Brady, 2013 by itself doesn't describe a trend.

"Even more curious is why tell the new OC he cannot have a say on staffing decision concerning the offense?" I hadn't heard or seen this. Where did you as I would like to read it. Truly asking not questioning you.

mainly resulted from inexperience, youth, and constantly being put in a position to fail (e.g., lots of reshuffling/no time to gel, a variety of different blocking schemes, etc). If that is indeed the case...I presume a decent argument for maintaining Funk can be made. Moreover, iirc Funk is an inside zone guy, and of course that was a (the?) staple blocking scheme at Alabama.

You don't have to worry about getting anyone fired. Rest assured Brady Hoke will not come on here, read this post, and based on your comments decide it's time to fire Funk.

As long as Michigan's offensive line gets out of the funk that was the past 2 years, the OLine coach should be safe.

This hasn't been discussed yet.

Just maybe, Hoke actually sees Funk in practice and likes the job he is doing.  The perception that other schools around the country deal with this level of inexperience is just not true, it almost never happens. 

Also, as noted above, I don't know of anywhere that says Nuss had no choice in his position coaches and quite frankly even if this was true it would not be unusual. 

One thing many forget is that most of these great OL recruits we got also almost all came with the caveat they would need some time to develp into their potential.  Kalis being the only exception.  Look at the depth chart, this team is crazy young.  Also remember that Funk did help Develop Lewan and Schofield into great tackles, both of which will probably play on Sundays.  Maybe that was a factor in keeping him around.

I know if i were Brady Hoke, I'd make sure I wouldn't read any of threads or comments on Mgoblog.com.  

......accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium's
Liable to walk upon the scene

Personally, I do not understand why you end posts with "Thoughts". Obviously when you post a thread, you're doing so to illicit responses. Posting "Thoughts" at the end is just redundant in my opinion

I'm sure Nussmeier and Hoke have discussed the O-line and one thing I think that hurt Borges was that his play selection seemed to lack consistency

I still can't believe they gave me this job.



Da dum dum

I would trademark the term "Hokemania" and parlay it into a vitamin empire and wrestling/MMA guest appearances. Then I would donate all of the proceeds to CS Mott Children's Hospital. Finally, I would put on sleeves just to see what it looked like. Then I would realize my pythons can't be caged, and Hokemania would run wild and rip the sleeves off. 

He has to let Nuss make that call so that Nuss can be fully accountable for the offense. Nuss has to decide who his OL coach is going to be for the entire offense is successful. There is little doubt that Nuss has full authority over any of his offensive coaching changes and that Hoke would not likely overide them. That kind of management mistake would be akin to a head coach hiring a DC and then dictating what kind of defense to run when that DC believes in a different scheme.

It's believed that what Nuss and Funk are more in synce with each other from a blocking scheme/play calling standpoint.

Perhaps Brady Hoke recognized that Funk was put in the nearly impossible position of teaching very young offensive lineman multiple offensive concepts instead of one base set of plays. Last year the majority of Auburn's offense was 4 plays from the same formation. Their O lineman only had to learn to do 4 things well and they improved all season. UM changed offensive styles and formations frequently and the offense didn't improve consistently through the season.

My hope is that Hoke has a better handle on how to run the team than we do . If not, he will soon be gone.