I understand the desire by many to "fall behind" Brady Hoke, and blindly support him. Its a natural tendency to welcome the new guy. However one wants to sugarcoat his resume, it is still by all standards underwhelming.
Everyone wants to think that he might be successful here - they say, look at Urban Meyer, or Jim Tressell, or Bo Schembechler - relative unknowns who had successful careers. They say, "Hoke can be that too". Of course, its natural to hope for the best.
But many relative unknowns have become head coaches, and failures as well. The state of Michigan has a good history of those: Bobby Williams, John L. Smith to name a few. John L. Smith also came from a history of success in second tier conferences (Idaho, Louisville) and was billed as a likable guy - he didn't pan out. The entire college football scene is replete with these failures - but nobody remembers them because they are not positive stories to remember.
The humanity in us wants us to remember the best case scenarios, but forget the worst case scenarios, but the latter far outweighs the former. The debacle of the coaching search puts him in an even worse position. His record is mediocre and similar to about 50% of second-tier conference head coaches. His only qualification for the Michigan job is his arbitrary former employment by Michigan.
So drink the kool-aid, eat the cornbread for now. Talk about how the players love him, and he's a great guy- which he might be. The media will always prop up the new guy - it makes it funner to bring him down when the results fail to appear. And with a name like Hoke (that rhymes with Joke, and Choke), and a look similar to Morningweh, - he will be easy media prey.
There was one flight from SD (Montgomery International) to Scottsdale this AM: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N991SB . There is another flight supposedly departing Willow Run arriving in Scottsdale this afternoon. It has not taken off however.
Could this just be a coincidence?
Or are we getting jilted by Miles, and now DB is meeting Hoke in Scottsdale?
Has anyone else seen that flight is SCHEDULED from Willow Run to Scottsdale, to depart in about 20 minutes ? It was supposed to leave 40 minutes ago. Its previous flight - from Westchester, NY (where the search firm is). Hasn't taken off yet though.
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I understand the desire by many to "fall behind" Brady Hoke, and blindly support him. Its a natural tendency to welcome the new guy. However one wants to sugarcoat his resume, it is still by all standards underwhelming.
Everyone wants to think that he might be successful here - they say, look at Urban Meyer, or Jim Tressell, or Bo Schembechler - relative unknowns who had successful careers. They say, "Hoke can be that too". Of course, its natural to hope for the best.
But many relative unknowns have become head coaches, and failures as well. The state of Michigan has a good history of those: Bobby Williams, John L. Smith to name a few. John L. Smith also came from a history of success in second tier conferences (Idaho, Louisville) and was billed as a likable guy - he didn't pan out. The entire college football scene is replete with these failures - but nobody remembers them because they are not positive stories to remember.
The humanity in us wants us to remember the best case scenarios, but forget the worst case scenarios, but the latter far outweighs the former. The debacle of the coaching search puts him in an even worse position. His record is mediocre and similar to about 50% of second-tier conference head coaches. His only qualification for the Michigan job is his arbitrary former employment by Michigan.
So drink the kool-aid, eat the cornbread for now. Talk about how the players love him, and he's a great guy- which he might be. The media will always prop up the new guy - it makes it funner to bring him down when the results fail to appear. And with a name like Hoke (that rhymes with Joke, and Choke), and a look similar to Morningweh, - he will be easy media prey.
There was one flight from SD (Montgomery International) to Scottsdale this AM: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N991SB . There is another flight supposedly departing Willow Run arriving in Scottsdale this afternoon. It has not taken off however.
Could this just be a coincidence?
Or are we getting jilted by Miles, and now DB is meeting Hoke in Scottsdale?
Has anyone else seen that flight is SCHEDULED from Willow Run to Scottsdale, to depart in about 20 minutes ? It was supposed to leave 40 minutes ago. Its previous flight - from Westchester, NY (where the search firm is). Hasn't taken off yet though.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N411QS
Its not DBs plane, but it belongs to some plane rental company (NCI), I don't know how this would fit in though . . .