SIAP: Hoke hopes boos were for him (Edit: Also, sort of addresses injuries?)
http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Hoke-Boo-the-coaches-not-the-players…
It kinda seems like Hoke's been getting in trouble for his media demeanor in the media.
Relevant:
After a series of miscues late in the second quarter, fans began to show vocal signs of disapproval, as boos rained down on the team as they headed into the locker room for halftime. Hoke just hoped for one thing out of it.
"Hopefully those boos were at the coaches and me," Hoke said. "Not the players."
Earlier this month, Hoke caught some flack for noting that true fans will support the players, and those that aren't true fans will not. Both statements echo in the same vein.
Not heartwarming, but better?
EDIT: There is also this:
Hoke also discussed Michigan's injury situation again, and the main focus is naturally on junior wide receiver Devin Funchess, whose status is up in the air.
"We'll make a game-time decision on those guys," he said, referring to not only Funchess, but junior safety Jarrod Wilson and senior cornerback Raymon Taylor as well.
I thought we didn't talk about injuries.... Admittedly, not a functionally different response from not talking about them all together, but a very different way of relating the same information.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
I didn't boo, but I also hope that all the boos were for the coaches and not the players.
September 19th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
Don't worry Coach, they were. They were.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 7:07 PM ^
A lot of people bad mouth these kids on message boards. I don't think booing them while they're on the field is out of the question.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:14 PM ^
I don't think booing them while they're on the field is out of the question.How is it not out of the question?
September 18th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^
Read the first sentence of the post you quoted. It makes that clear.
September 18th, 2014 at 8:13 PM ^
No, it's not clear, that's why I misunderstood it.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:39 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 8:11 PM ^
Ah, got it. I interpreted it as it was ok to boo them on the field because people were hard on them on message boards.
September 18th, 2014 at 8:22 PM ^
Right, because no 20-year-old was ever a vicious bastard to other 20-year-olds once upon a time.
September 19th, 2014 at 8:02 AM ^
A lot of people including Brian Cook and mods on this board bad mouth the players. I've been banging this drummer for years and you guys refuse to understand that you contribute to the culture of negativism toward the players and coaches. Ask anyone that reads this board what Brian and the mods call Nick Sheridan.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:08 PM ^
Well then the 50-something guy sitting 5 rows behind me needs to get on that rethinking life thing then.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:54 PM ^
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September 19th, 2014 at 10:18 AM ^
I blurted out "idiot!" at the UTL II game when Gardner got the happy feet and threw that ridiculous interception. That was definitely directed at Gardner.
I felt like a real a**hole after that one, just like the time I heckled Daryl Strawberry.
September 19th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
Which is why I will never boo. Plus, even if those people are booing the coaches, the players believe in and rely on those coaches (or so it seems). How does it help them to hear the spectators booing their coaches?
September 18th, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^
During last year's Nebraska game, my first time out of the student section, I heard some awful things being said. Most people don't have same mentality on here.
September 18th, 2014 at 8:17 PM ^
alcohol mixed with crowd psychology leads to real stupidity sometimes.
September 18th, 2014 at 9:07 PM ^
Sadly, a lot of "fans" say terrible things to players on the intenet and yell terrible things about them at the games.
If a Brandan Gibbons or a C'sonte York gets lambasted by fans, it's because they deserved it. But when someone like Devin Gardner, who is working on a graduate degree, has worked his ass off and has never done anything off the field to embarass the school, gets treated like crap by so-called "fans" in comment fields or booed during games, it's not the least bit appropriate.
Brady Hoke may not be doing everything the way the media want him to, but this was a very good statement on his part.
September 18th, 2014 at 9:27 PM ^
September 19th, 2014 at 7:02 AM ^
Pretty sure the K State kicker got booed last night after missing his third FGA.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:17 AM ^
I logged in, just to respond to your message, to put things in proper perspective for you.. Let me preface this by saying that I do not boo the players... however, your comment about booing a 20 year old should "rethink their lives"... well, according to you, these 20 year old adults should get everything great that goes with being a Michigan player, for a lifetime, from other paying adults, and not even a boo now and again? Seriously think about that.... if they do not "deserve" that, then neither do they deserve being anoited, being incredibly entitled, and benefit from all the history behind them, that they simply aren't living up to. Again, I have never booed the players, heck, I haven't been back to a game since 1995....and I would not judge other fans if they were to do so.... the players should know that nothing is free in life, and they are reaping benefits like no other..... and that it truly is a privilege to don that uniform. If you want to give them the "kids" free pass all the time, then don't give them the uniform, and put some mentally stronger people in its place... maybe then we will win again. All the talk about football making the players "men"... give me a fucking break.... you and they, cannot have it both ways.
September 19th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
...hell, have you ever been in an in-game thread?
Players get cursed to high hell.
That said, you're 100% correct in your statement about rethinking life...I'm just saying, that it does happen (and it's disgusting when it does).
September 18th, 2014 at 7:07 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 7:09 PM ^
Alternate headline: The sky is blue.
(And a skywriter just wrote Go Blue in it)
September 18th, 2014 at 7:42 PM ^
Over East Lansing.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:11 PM ^
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September 18th, 2014 at 7:14 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 9:00 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 7:11 PM ^
There will be plenty more boos this weekend, I fear.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:15 PM ^
I swear some of you are more giddy about the prospect of Michigan doing poorly this weekend so you can keep beating the Fire Hoke drum and say "I told you so" than the prospect of Michigan actually having a good game.
September 18th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^
Or some of us want this experiment that we know isn't going to work to be over asap
September 19th, 2014 at 7:39 AM ^
So you're cheering against your own team, got it.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:13 AM ^
September 19th, 2014 at 8:49 AM ^
September 19th, 2014 at 11:37 AM ^
We may be stuck in a cycle of mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
September 19th, 2014 at 11:36 AM ^
And I still hope Michigan will succeed, I'd really like to see them run the rest of the table. Here's the problem, being shutout by ND and then looking like an intramural squad against Miami has convinced many of us that Hoke isn't the Moses we were hoping he would be.
September 19th, 2014 at 2:02 PM ^
September 20th, 2014 at 7:57 AM ^
Wasting emotional energy on that fear. Not gonna happen.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:13 PM ^
I don't sense the "getting in trouble" part...
September 18th, 2014 at 7:23 PM ^
To be fair, the comment about "true fans", in my understanding (and I could be reading too much into it - I just didn't get the sense that it was the sort of slam some people thought it was), was far more about the unnecessary attacks players were experiencing on social media, so while the use of "true" was perhaps not the best here, I think he was trying to put the responsibility squarely on the staff, much like he is doing here. Hoke has been very consistent - really from the beginning - in this message that public criticism should be directed at him and his staff, not the players. I don't mind coaches trying to stand up for their teams like that really.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:29 PM ^
Where did Hoke say anything about social media in the original quote? That angle was continually brought up at the time, and when you actually looked at the question and the answer, there's absolutely nothing in there about twitter.
September 18th, 2014 at 8:48 PM ^
. Hoke MISSTATING what he was thinking and when he THEN said he was misquoted, he AGAIN MISSTATED the idea he was trying to convey....
That point, - THE POINT, was most likely better stated and reflected in his radio interview quote.
But by all means lets ride and beat this one to death along with his horrible knack for creating a family atmosphere and the manner in which he wakes his team up.
/s
In the end - FERGODSAKES! -- are all of us "True Fans" that sensitive?
September 18th, 2014 at 7:24 PM ^
I was saying boo-urns.
September 18th, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^
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