Support for Brian and for Hoke

Cant blame people for something something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGJGTjV2WE

youre probably right and for that i apologize. but all i have been seeing around here is a bunch of complaints about the very person who runs this crazy show. 

i have rarely, if ever, heard brian call out a particular poster in a negative way. so IMO, we should not be slamming him with all these negative posts.

if i were him i would shut this baby down for a couple days and see how everyone reacts.

i, for one, would have a hole in my soul without mgoblog. regardless of what brian is putting out there.

His record may not be the best and Hoke may do well here, but he is a class act.  I liked the way he thanked his players and how emotional he got, he cares about the kids as RR did as well.  He thanked RR which was nice to see. 

The big thing is he has no ego.  He is confident, but he had no problems telling people this was his dream job and he was willing to walk here.  Also, I went back and watched SDSU's bowl game.  He coaches the line and follows orders from the DC about what to emphasize with the line during a game.  You can see that when the offense had the ball during one series, he was over talking to the d -line. 

Will he be successful, I hope so. 

How can he so confidently predict that we'll win Big ten championships, but be unable to compete at the NC level? Look at the teams that have won the big ten over the past 10 years, and think about how many of them either went to the NC, or were borderline NC teams. The difference between these two is very small, and to predict that we'll win big ten championships with some regularity, and not compete for NCs is sort of absurd to me. 

We all need to get behind coach hoke, and give him a fair shake. We saw with Rodriguez what happens when coaches are judged too quickly. Let's not repeat the mistakes that were made by the freep on this board.

prefer snail slime for anal lubricant.  Its all natural! 

I'll never forget that post, I would like to forget......but I can't.

and the players certainly adopted it.  I always thought, however, that "the team, the team, the team" was both inspiring and sufficient.  I also thought that the pre-game pump up video they showed on the scoreboards last year referencing Bo's immortal words were awesome.  Go  Blue.

don't ask me to get rid of the damned rope.

Man, in the last 48 hours it has felt like if you have any reservations about Brady Hoke you aren't supporting your coach... it's like being told you "don't support the troops" or something.

Brian was absolutely roasted on WTKA for saying that Hoke would win Big Ten championships but struggle in bowl games, just like Carr and even Bo.  Yet even for that he was killed on the radio. 

It's like if you don't say that Brady Hoke will win consecutive National Championships until he actually becomes the trophy itself you aren't supporting Michigan.  I think Hoke is a good hire and he will do well.  Not a great hire and he will do great.  But he is good, and he could be better than that, we don't know.  Please don't hurt me for that...

but for fear of further retribution I offer cute kitten.

you nailed it on the head there. A lot of people blindly agree with Brian even though he's clearly in the minority on this one.

Hoke comes in with a losing record, one bowl win, and no experience at an auto-qualifier, and 1(!) win over a BCS school in the past four years, Indiana....

RR came in with lots of wins, was a game away from playing for the national title and all the hype in the world, but inherited a bad situation and had 'factions' against him from day one. 

Hoke got up there and played to the masses, and everyone lapped it up. He used those key phrases like 'that school to the south' and we all felt tingly things, but I will not blindly support a coach that lacks the credentials just because he was a D-line coach here for severn years and knows the words to The Victors.

I really hope that I am wrong about him, but 8-9 wins a year is what we are going back to, and I hope everyone is happy being handcuffed to Lloyd ball for the next half decade or so...

If, and hopefully when I am wrong, I'll host a CIL for me eating my words. 

And here is a cat picture to enhance my disagreement

he sure does have brainwashing power over a lot of people.

Let him have his opinion.... it is his site.

So? How is that Brian's fault at all? It's the fault of all the people reading his blog and not having the balls enough to make their own opinion.

Brian is entitled to his opinion, as are all of you. If you don't like Brian's opinion, well, tough shiz for you, I guess stop reading the blog.

Because if any of us are a little leery about a FBS coach with a losing record, and (at least in my case) far more upset about how DB handled the coach search than the end result, it's because Brian said so right? Hokemania is so awesome that the only possible way to disagree with it is brainwashing from our fearless leader?

Hoke might do great, he might do poorly, it's just a big risk. On top of that, DB destroyed our recruiting class and really hurt our national image with how he handled this search. Not to mention this godawful "Michigan Man" meme that needs to die miserably. If it's true that DB didn't even contact Gary Patterson, well, he doesn't deserve to hold the job of AD.

Let people have their opinions, the difference between us being worried about the hiring is that, at the end of the day, we're still going to support our coach instead of trying to dig up dirt on him and root against the team in hopes that he's ousted faster.

peed on it.

do you support Hoke or do you think it is a good hire and we will be relevant nationally again? Those are different. Let me ask you this, did you vote for bush or obama?  if you didnt, did you think the same way and since he is your president did you support him?  This is the same.  In elections a person has no control over who get elected and when it isnt the guy he/she voted for he/she usually doesnt support him, so why shouldnt it apply here?

He is devastated that RR got fired and they hired Hoke. How could any Michigan fan watch the presser yesterday and not be really excited for next year? I just don't get Brian's "the world is over...DOOM" reaction. He is acting like a child.