Where will Hoke be 4 years from now?

Submitted by rbgoblue on

I genuinely wish the guy the best, but I doubt he will be a HC at a major conference program, leading his top 10 team to a conference championship game.

trustBlue

November 29th, 2014 at 1:21 AM ^

The last time I checked, the HC is responsible for both sides of the ball.  That's like saying that Hoke's only problem is that he never had an OC.  

RR had multiple DCs, but the defense's were still horrible.  Hoke had multiple OCs and his offenses (for the last two years) have been awful.  The job of the head coach is to win games, not make excuses up about the side of the field they dont feel like coaching.  

Mr Miggle

November 29th, 2014 at 10:23 AM ^

Given their backgrounds, I have to wonder how Martin and Robinson would have been good friends. Forcing a move that like that seems completely out of step with everything else we know about how Martin ran the AD. How would a current player's parents know something like that? It's not something I've seen anywhere else. If the story was that Martin wouldn't pay enough to get who RR wanted, I'd believe that. Robinson was a relatively low paid DC.

Don

November 29th, 2014 at 10:35 AM ^

That's complete ignorant horseshit. Bill Martin has spent his entire adult life in Ann Arbor, founding First Martin Corporation in 1968 after getting his MBA from UM in '65 and a BA from Wittenberg in Ohio.

Greg Robinson grew up in and attended college in California, and spent his entire adult life coaching in California, Colorado, Kansas City, New York, North Carolina, and Syracuse prior to coming to Michigan. There is no intersection of Martin and Robinson's lives anywhere along that timeline. The only possible connection would be sailing, and there is not one single solitary indication that Greg Robinson is a sailor.

Bill Martin may not have allowed RR to spend the money that was necessary, but he did not force RR to hire Greg Robinson. That was RR's own mistake, and one that doomed his chances here.

Tater

November 29th, 2014 at 2:44 AM ^

There will always be idiots who hate RR.  I hope they have fun watching his team play for the Pac 12 Championship next week and realize that it would have worked here if he had gotten the same four years and money to buy a good DC that Brady Hoke got.  

hazardc

November 29th, 2014 at 3:34 AM ^

Cognative dissosance runs rampant on here when it comes to accepting how much of a mistake was made when it came to handling RR...

 

 

Lot of sour grapes right now with his success, almost hilarious, except that i share the same in the same fanbase as these morons. 

TheRonimal

November 28th, 2014 at 11:27 PM ^

Actually an interesting question. I think he's beat suited as a dl coach at a good program. Maybe a DC? I have no idea but I wish him the best, just like rich rod. At least the guys we fire are likable unlike DB.

gwkrlghl

November 28th, 2014 at 11:20 PM ^

Maybe a DL coach on an NFL team? Hard to see him being a HC anywhere else other than a mid major school (which I'd be surprised to see him take) and I don't think he's got the resume to be a DC

bronxblue

November 28th, 2014 at 11:35 PM ^

Based on the trajectory of the last guy, winning lots of games somewhere else.

But seriously, he'll be a head coach at a non P5 team and probably doing pretty well. By all accounts the guy can recruit, and after a year or two someone will take a chance on him and they'll have a guy who can get your middling program growing. I don't think he'll ever be an HC of a major program again, but he will find work.

evenyoubrutus

November 28th, 2014 at 11:35 PM ^

I truly believe he ends up with a job in the athletic department. Or he retires. I just don't see him coaching somewhere else. I think getting fired from this job is going to drain him.