Rod Gilmore and the Gardner quote

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Last night Rod Gilmore said Hoke had actually once considered asking Gardner to leave the program. Gilmore said so many irritating, semi-insulting things about the UM program last night, but this one really floored me. Anyone else hear him say this or know what he might have been talking about?

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MichiganMan_24_

October 12th, 2014 at 8:09 PM ^

Guy is an asshat..and i think he has a vote on final 4 right ? ... he tried to justify that the SEC doesnt deserve 2 teams in playoffs because they dont play anyone out of conference..Im as B10 as they come but to play A&M,Georgia,Miss St etc in consecutive weeks is unmatched by any conference, period.

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bostonsix

October 12th, 2014 at 8:10 PM ^

the UTL program, to be handed out last night, and Gardner started to walk out of his office with it in hand. Then Hoke simply asked him to leave it.

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taistreetsmyhero

October 12th, 2014 at 8:16 PM ^

about one of the color guys trying to instigate another controversy with the inflammatory remark about whether or not hoke should leave gardner in when he was limping around?

it was such shameless flamebait.

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Mocha Cub

October 12th, 2014 at 8:18 PM ^

I never thought I'd say this, but I'd rather have Millen do our games than listen to those 2 guys from last night. It was very unprofessional commentary and it really didn't even sound like they had prepared (esp Gil-"baum")

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uncleFred

October 12th, 2014 at 8:21 PM ^

much earlier. At some point, according to him, as he got to know Hoke better he bought into what the coaches were trying to do. Not surprising that a highly ranked dual threat QB might have some reservations about a coaching change to a coach with a very different philosophy. Equally unsurprising that a guy like Hoke might think it best for a talented player who is resistant to the direction of the program might be better off elsewhere. 

Spin this anyway you like. The bottom line is that Devin and Hoke ended up on the same page quite some time ago and share a deep and abiding mutual repsect. Does the history of how that came to pass really matter at all at this point?

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switch26

October 12th, 2014 at 8:25 PM ^

to add to this early in devin's career one of the trainers is good friends with our neighbor and mentioned that Gardner and WIll campbell were 2 of the laziest people on the team just by watching and observing them at practice and working with them daily.

If that is true it shows how much Gardner has changed over the years it is just too bad he has had to play behind some of the worst offensive lines in michigan history

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Mr. W

October 13th, 2014 at 12:49 AM ^

I was there then too and I will fully support the notion that Devin matured and changed very positively from the time he enrolled to now. Big Will, great kid but I'm not sure he ever hit that potential due a combination of effort lapses, (don't want to say laziness), and a lack of coaching fundamentals for three years.  

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SFBlue

October 12th, 2014 at 8:26 PM ^

Among the most frustrating things about the slump Michigan is in is that we get lower tier announcers.  Doesn't make too much of a difference, because I turn the volume off soon into the game anyway, but still. 

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twohooks

October 12th, 2014 at 8:34 PM ^

With the thought that gilmore was a total douche. He mentioned an episode of a fan who was in the elevator with gilmore and James Franklin and a Michigan fan walked in with Michigan regalia. Franklin jokingly offers up some Penn St swag and in gilmore's words the   when a fan stated to Franklin that he "wants Penn St to win." To mention that on a broadcast  IME such a bush league, sports radio comment going out of the way to make our situation worse (albeit bad) than it already is.

 

Part 2 was when Gardner was limping and the dip shit kept bellowing, "they are putting this player in harms way.!!!" If that was Brett Favre out there that image would have been the most courageous player the world has ever seen.

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Mocha Cub

October 12th, 2014 at 11:35 PM ^

I thought he was also kind of trolling the fanbase with that comment. He also made another comment about that was exceptionally douchey about the crowd noise either. "Hey, what do you think of this crowd?!" I think is what he said to the other announcer. His voice is about on that Urkel level imo. I don't know if the crowd was as loud as other times or not, but I just thought the way he brought it up was also to shit on the fanbase a little bit. Fuck you Gilbaum, you don't know our pain

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bronxblue

October 12th, 2014 at 8:43 PM ^

I must have missed that statement.  Seems like there was something else going on there that Gilmore cut out, because it seems unlikely that a guy like Hoke would say that publicly unless there was a context that, shockingly, ESPN failed to communicate.

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Waves

October 12th, 2014 at 9:13 PM ^

He spoke sort of derisively about the term Michigan Man and said, "Whatever that is..." I believe I also heard him say "Amari Jarboh".

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MGoblu8

October 12th, 2014 at 10:00 PM ^

Maybe it's because every game is televised now, so there are more opportunities, but I swear sports announcers are getting worse as time goes by. I swear I feel like they are making shit up as they go to fill time. I don't know, I just don't remember turning on a game and dreading who would be calling it in the past. I know everyone picks on Pam Ward, but her suckitude seems to be on par with a lot of these tools now. Joey Galloway clearly sucks more than most.

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