A letter from Brady Hoke...
Saw this on the Scout forum, and had to bring it here. A fan wrote Brady Hoke a letter, saying that he was looking forward to the seaon and wishing him well, etc. Brady returned a letter, handwritten, with this (verbatim):
Thanks for the note, and I love your passion for Michigan Football. We are excited and humbled to be at Michigan, and look forward in preparing the 132th team. Have a great spring and thanks again.
Go Blue, Brady Hoke
132th. Any other coach does that, and he's an idiot...but Hoke is so awesome, he can use terms like that and not only get away with it, but make it sound awesome. He plays by no one's rules.
I have found it useless negging people with over 1,000 points, so i wont neg you.
Negged for not negging.
April 10th, 2011 at 12:48 AM ^
Negged for negging for not negging.
It's spring practice. Who gives a shit if he says 132nd or 132th.
Lol, there a 3 negs for the 3 posts who criticized the OP. I wonder who did the negging? /s
at least he didn't upvote himself.
Believe it or not. It wasn't.
Anyway...thanks all for jumping my shit on my first new topic post. I guess it's a good indoctrination. I better not start anything new ever again unless I have a scoop like "Hoke Out, Carr Back In As Head Coach."
better have thicker skin than that, boy
every waking hour I feel the fire of a thousand hells pumping in my veins.... and it's all for MEEECHIGAN!
better develop thick skin if you are going to post here. ever sort of fan and troll....
I've seen far shittier threads started here than mine. I've been lurking in the shadows for a LONG time. ;-)
Anyway...
Hoke is the man. Hunwick is STILL the man, and I'm damn proud of our Michigan hockey team.
GO BLUE.
If he brings us back to winning Big Ten championships then he can speak in tongues for all I care.
Can't wait until Hoke wins his firth Big Ten championship later this year!
No fair. I want one.
Christ, lighten up...I actually thought it was awesome he did that (use that term), but even more so, take the time to respond to a fan with a hand-written letter in the middle of Spring practice.
Who are you talking to? This is a comment on your own post.
.....since Christ hates it when people tell him to "lighten up". Christ is trying to get ND ready for the fall and doesn't need people telling him to take it easy right now.
Crist.
he also decided floyd didnt need to take it easy this spring/summer/season either
One thing I'll never forget is his opening presser
"This Is Michigan"
is the kind of mistake you make during spring practice. He'll get tougher, install more of the vocabulary, and by fall that's a mistake he won't make. Manball.
Oh, like you've never referred to the 132th of anything before.
It's a perfectly crumulent word.
At the same time, 'playing by no one else's grammar rules' is not a way to demonstrate one's awesomeness. This isn't an offensive system; you can't just change shit around and expect people call you "innovative" or a "grammar pioneer."
..... that's *cromulent*.
Shoot, I thought it referred to fans like the crumulent pos that gave LC the bouble bird last night, or most of the denizens of Columbus or East Lansing.
At the same time, 'playing by no one else's grammar rules' is not a way to demonstrate one's awesomeness
While I don't exactly disagree (being a grammar snob myself), I'm not sure he expected that little reply to be disseminated over the message boards. And to be honest, while it was cool that Lloyd Carr was a former HS English teacher and made his players learn new words in the dictionary, he wasn't a very typical college football coach.
act. This could be the coach we need.
Press conference. He said he makes up words. Obviously numerical rankings too.
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<br>Or would that be his 1nd or 1rd press conference?
If he signed his name in blood, then this letter is awesome.
He actually signed it in Tiger Blood.
When I read that I didn't even notice, I was more caught up in the fact that he wrote someone back....
This is the 3th time I've read this letter today.
...because folks might not criticize him for things they may have criticized RichRod for is TREMENDOUSLY pointless.
Also, if you fancy yourself a critic, be prepared to receive criticism yourself. It goes with the territory.
I hope you find this criticism constructive. It's not critical that you do, but it could help you achieve a critical mass of MGoBlog credibility.
Perles. But the in a good way.
Based on the last three years we could use some more similairity in style between those two.
is one of the best things about football coaches. One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Bum Phillips, talking about Bear Bryant (who Phillips was assistant to at Texas A&M):
"He can take his'n and beat your'n and take your'n and beat his'n."
I don't expect a UM Professor of English Lit to know jack shit about football, and I don't expect our head football coach to be completely grammatically correct when speaking or writing. If either of them are, great, but let's keep in mind why they're hired.
Don, somebody mentioned that they thought you were the same "Don" that's a regular caller on WTKA. Is this true?
Yeah, that was me- I always think/hope it's Don from MGo who's calling in when Brian's on WTKA. Also, I absolutely LOVE that Bum Philips quote and sometimes break it out, with full drawl, in completely random situations, just to befuddle people.
That is all