Press conference questions for the coaches.

For Hoke: does Borges run the plays that you want (manball), or do you give him the freedom to do whatever? Do you do much more than recruit? Do you feel you are really a head coach or just a recruiter/mamager? Do you ever feel you need to answer reporters questions in good faith with honesty? For Borges: do you feel lucky that Hoke is your boss?

Hoke has a habit of saying "I think" a lot in his pressers-I cou ted 16 on Wednesdays. This, more thanHokenot yelling or cursing makes me wonder a little about the mindset of the staff and team. its minor but doesnt sound confident or decisive.

For Borges: What schematic advantage do you gain from calling play action when there is no threat of successful run?

Where was Blake Countess the last 3 quarters? The 2nd half I don't even think he was on the sideline

Question for Borges:

Are you renting, or do you have you got a good realtor?

Questions for Hoke:

Do you think you'll stay in coaching after the 2014 season is over?

Do you think DB will let you have input on picking your successor?

Everyone knows that game didn't go well and in a way it was worse than the MSU game because there was legitimate hope that they could win the game. The MSU game was clearly a disaster after the first 7 minutes.

Coach Hoke will go there and take his lumps. That is part of being the HC.

I'd suggest someone ask him how the coaches keep up the motivation and spirit of the team. If he can't answer that in a reasonable way, that is more worrisome than any questions about x's and o's. Every coach goes through a down spell.

For Matteson:

What likely available offensive coordinators have given you the most difficulty scheming against in the past?

I would really love to ask why our corners were 8 yards off of the receivers on 4th and 2.

I'd ask if we thought about kicking a field goal on 1st down after the muffed punt since our running plays would make the field goal distance farther.

I'd ask why opposing teams shouldn't blitz every down.

A few plays were actually successful during the game.  Why did we keep running the plays that didn't work and never go back to the plays that did work?

On third and 2 Nebraska put 10 players in the box on defense.  Did the coaches think this team could rush 2 yards against 10 defenders by executing?

On a number of plays, an unblocked player made the tackle.  Is this execution or poor play design?

Nebraska said that we had tendencies that tipped our plays before we ran them. do we have a self scouting system in place to identify these tendencies and correct them for the future?

Do you think were qualified to lead this program??? Given your stints at Ball State and SDTU should you maybe have taken a less prestigious coaching role at Michigan? Do you feel your inexperience coaching on a elite level has caught up with you given the expectations of this program? The team looks lost....defeated at times....would you consider firing a staff member who in your mind is not coaching to your expectations?

What you ask, because this is all he will say:
"We have to get better"
"We didn't execute"
"We have to coach these kids better"
"We didn't execute"
"We didn't execute"
"We didn't execute"