JH Diversion / UTL #1

Submitted by TorontoBlue on

Watching this again to try to regain some perspective on where we all want to be.  While drinking.  First thing you notice immediately is that Brady Hoke wore headphones throughout the game - you can see him with headgear multiple times in this clip.  Second is how many times Brent & Herbie praise Al Borges by name for making the right call.  

I was at this game in Section 6 with a lot of ND fans and will never forget it.  Can't wait to re-electrocute the atmosphere at Michigan Stadium.  Please come home, JH.   This is what we all want, including you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHbCfgPA1c

Danwillhor

December 20th, 2014 at 6:58 AM ^

I mean, the route was open but the ball want there in time or remotely accurate. Even a healthy Gardner has more of a shotput lop motion/throw but he can zip it at times. He had to drill that in there on a broken foot (body, let's be real). If healthy I can't help but think it's a stack rollout with roll side options, run option & a bsckside slip option. If healthy he may have been able to run & dive it across? Yet, the play was good. The play was wide open (especially) for a 6 yard throw. It was just late and really wide to Devin's left, Dileo's right shoulder side. Yet, we make that play (assuming they don't score with the 25ish seconds left, as they could have) and we feel a whole lot better about that year. A year where we didn't think it could get worse.....

Primo

December 19th, 2014 at 11:37 PM ^

15 rows behind the endzone where most of the action was, including Roundtree and Denard's fumble score.  The 30 minutes + after the last play are my favorite big house memories.

Qmatic

December 19th, 2014 at 11:44 PM ^

The highs of Brady Hoke's tenure came few and far between as his years went on. But the highs we experienced, were pretty awesome. So awesome that we should make it habit in our new regime.

moffle

December 20th, 2014 at 12:09 AM ^

Yeah, I rewatched some parts of that game not too long ago. The main thing I took away from it was how much the first three quarters kind of sucked. The fourth quarter was probably the wildest single quarter of football I've seen, and was every bit as incredible as we remember. But the rest of that game was really dull.

bo_lives

December 20th, 2014 at 12:59 AM ^

His gameplans ranged from brilliant (OSU 2013) to ludicrous (Iowa 2011). With Nuss, it was nothing but "miss" after Appalachain State.

Still, the Borges opposition was because no one wanted to believe that it was Hoke himself who was incompetent. The funny thing is, I do actually buy into the theory that Hoke wanted to retain Borges after 2013 but Brandon forced him to switch.

Danwillhor

December 20th, 2014 at 7:15 AM ^

definitely wanted to keep Borges! Brandon just wanted to keep Hoke as badly and he had to scapegoat someone for the alums, donors, fans. It couldn't be total incompetence, it was that one guy that was either brilliant or terrible sounding on the day. It was the guy that didn't leave the building let alone recruit on the road. It was the arrogant, Uncle Fester looking guy. Yeah, that's it. Problem solved, guys. The one thing it's not is a total lack of competence, awareness & accountability from the top. IMO, no way Brandon fires Hoke after this year if it played out the same in every way but the scandals & growing fan hatred of stadium experience outside of the game. A quiet 5 wins & he's back with maybe another scapegoat or two. Players remain coached by a buddy that never holds their lack of effort to account, recruits largely stay on but most because he's that kind of HC, etc. Finally, that is the strangest thing because I'd seen SDSU under Hoke and they were not soft & entitled. Same for BSU. Good or not, they weren't soft. I think Hoke let what he thought Michigan values stood for influence his style here. A CEO HC can work but not when you coddle them and are completely in a "mentor before HC" mentality.

CoverZero

December 20th, 2014 at 12:51 AM ^

The Hokephones thing became ridiculous with every loss.  It was as if he was defiantly saying "i dont have to put a set of phones on...im the coach I do what I want" even though in reality it neutered him down to a clapping idiot.

Hopefully if he ever gets another HC gig, he wises up and gets with the times.

LSAClassOf2000

December 20th, 2014 at 7:21 AM ^

Seeing this reminds me that we are definitely coming up on Christmas now and Don Criqui has not seen that signal yet and is probably rather disenheartened at this point. If someone is able, it might be a good idea to stop by the stadium and bring him a snadwich and some coffee, then wander down to the field and signal "touchdown" so he knows that he can go home now. 

Blueto

December 20th, 2014 at 12:50 PM ^

Oh, I thought this was going to be a video of girls in skimpy bikinis or something like that to get my mind off of CC. This just gets me thinking again about football==HARBAUGH==football==HARBAUGH.

 

Thanks but not much help.