Coach Hoke Diffuses Criticism from Aztec Alum
Warning: If anyone is still boycotting the Freep after the Jihad of 2009, do not click the following. It's a Snyder piece, although it's short and thus lacks room for much opinion.
For everyone else, the piece demonstrates Hoke's continued ability to prove himself a Jedi Master of all things coaching, including completely supporting the passion of a former SDSU player who didn't mince words in criticizing Hoke (EDIT: the link to the remarks themselves is included in the text of the piece).
“When you look at him as an offensive lineman, how he would finish and all those things. Kyle is passionate about his alma mater, which he should be. That doesn’t bother me one bit. He was passionate about the Aztecs when we were, and he’s still passionate. That doesn’t bother me.” It’s simply part of the excitement of college football. “That’s a guy who’s passionate about his school,” Hoke said.
Can the man do no wrong?*
*Half-serious: From where I stand, he's pretty much batting 1.000 so far.
September 22nd, 2011 at 10:51 PM ^
September 22nd, 2011 at 6:47 PM ^
I thought he suffered from foot-n-mouth syndrome...which led to the symptons you have mentioned.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
in my bosses office this morning. I wish I had barbeque sauce.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:11 PM ^
God I hope your use of the term "crow" is the same as my use of the term "crow." Otherwise you have a shitty or awesome job.
September 22nd, 2011 at 1:27 PM ^
I generally use the peter pan definition of crow.
September 22nd, 2011 at 4:35 PM ^
allow it
September 22nd, 2011 at 6:11 PM ^
I really do enjoy Hoke's approach to comments such as these - he supports Turley's position, but at the same time, boxes it and puts it neatly in the corner. This is, after all, Michigan.
September 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 PM ^
Coach Borges was on the local San Diego sports radio this evening (about 4:45 PST) doing an interview with one of the co-hosts of the afternoon show. The other host is on the way to AA.
Went over a lot of the same things we've heard before but some key points from what I can remember:
Borges has been back to San Diego sine the Hoke hire and has spoken with in person Lindley and other players.
He's been in contact with Lindley over the phone since then.
He DVR's SDSU games. Made a joke about how odd it is he can see SDSU games in Ann Arbor while they aren't broadcast in San Diego. (About half the county here falls under Time Warner domain and they don't carry the Mtn. Network. )
Currently recruiting is trending towards pro-style offensive players but it would be "bad coaching" if they didn't use Denard to his full capabilities.
Asked about only having 4 road games this year: "I like it"
He came across very well on the radio, nothing like I would have imagines from his bug-eyed Uncle Fester photos.
The pod cast of the interview will probably be up tomorrow sometime:
http://www.xtrasports1360.com/pages/Podcenter/Podcenter_01.html#tile 4
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:30 AM ^
This enthusiastic suporter of Rich Rodriguez's hiring understands that Rich Rodriguez's management of the defense of the University of Michigan's football team was beyond atrocious -- F-quality work. Period, end of discussion.
Though it couldn't have possibly been worse, his management of the special teams of the University of Michigan's football team wasn't much better.
These are, really, undisputable facts. Far too much time is wasted disputing them.