What Dave Brandon is really about

Once one of DB's biggest defenders. A sheep.

This sheep has turned into a pissed off bull that has turned into a nuclear pissed off bull. 

We're never ever getting back together. 

I was with you at that rally today, brother. 

He didn't roll up numbers on teams with a pulse.

I know!  In the first season where he finally had the pieces he needed in place to get his system in work (having been left with very little by the previous regime), his offense wasn't automatically an unstoppable juggernaut against every single team it faced!  What the hell!  Brady Hoke has fixed everything.  

RR was a failure and so is Hoke.

Give me a break; RR and Hoke aren't in the same universe when it comes to coaching acumen.  RR won everywhere he won prior to coming to Michigan, and is winning against at a second-tier Pac-12 program.  Hoke was a woefully mediocre coach at every stop prior to being gifted his current job by Dave Brandon.

RR took over a team with next to nothing on offense, an unsupportive fanbase, and in his second year, a media witchhunt that was a constant distraction and completely undermined his ability to recruit.  And yet by his third year he'd still managed to get the pieces he needed to make his offense work very effectively.  Yes, it struggled against good defenses, as do many young teams.  But it was inarguably getting better, and as a true spohmore, Denard was Big 10 offensive player of the year working in RR's system.  

Hoke took RR's players and, in what would have been RR's fourth season, won 11 games including the Sugar Bowl.  (Can you imagine what RR's tenure would have looked if he'd had the same players in hist first year that Hoke had in his?) The import of Greg Mattison was obviously a huge deal, but let's be honest - Mattison is a good DC; he's not the god we'd like to make him out to be, as games against any team that runs tempo on offense have demonstrated.  Which suggests that RR with a good defensive coordinator could have worked (and I think RR learned his lesson from the Gerg fiasco).  As for everything else Hoke has done, it has been awful.  The more players he brings in, and the further away we get from RR, the worse this team gets.  That's undeniable.  

Hoke was a failure before he arrived; his current performance is entirely consistent with his prior accomplishments.  RR had established himself as an excellent coach prior to arriving in Ann Arbor.  Firing him before giving him a fourth year, notwithstanding all the bullshit he had to deal with, seemed like an irrational decision at the time in the absence of Jim Harbaugh taking over.  That has borne out; his firing has proven to be a terrible, terrible decision.  We're in far worse shape now than we were in 2010.  

Name any team Michigan beat in the last 4 years that comes close to Arizona beating Oregon last year?

Are you seriously arguing that RRod got a fair deal here and that he proved everything he could prove in 3 years, which were more like 2 because of the hard 1st year transition? 

Except that Hoke doesn't insist on a power running game and never really used one before he got here. His SDSU teams passed about 55% of the time and even with Ronnie Hillman in the backfield it was an even split (and yards were 2:1 passing).

You're still missing the elephant in the room.