What is gained by keeping Hoke until the end of the season?
October 25th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 8:32 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 10:09 PM ^
Who says? I've never heard that before.
Presumably they both love Michigan and would prefer a coach not embarrass the school.
October 26th, 2014 at 4:11 AM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
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October 25th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 8:05 PM ^
If he fires Hoke now it woul be another failure on his part and clear evidence that he is doing a lousy job as AD. But if Hoke gets to six wins (distinct possibility) the team goes to a bowl game. Brandon dodges a bullet.
Firing Hoke today would be the final nail in Brandon's coffin.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
Nothing.
And I'm not going to another game this year until one of the two idiots are fired.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:14 PM ^
Nothing.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:15 PM ^
He gets to stay there to make sure all the star players who had potential get completely destroyed physically so they don't ever flourish playing for anyone else.... so it looks like a player problem instead of a player development problem.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:15 PM ^
You think Hoke's performance has been mediocre?
But seriously, to answer the question: not a damn thing.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
Mediocre would be an improvement a this point.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
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October 25th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 7:31 PM ^
Michigan is not as flush with money anymore as you think. Brandon has dwindled the budget surpluss down to $4M the last fiscal year, and after this year and no Winter Classic and no huge soccer game, we will be dangerously close to the red next year.
October 25th, 2014 at 10:34 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:39 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
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October 25th, 2014 at 6:44 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^
Like this.
October 25th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^
But you are completely missing the point Freddie's making---Brandon is the one responsible for Hoke and his staff. Cleaning house has to start at the very top: DB's very presense at Michigan will be a huge obstacle in conducting a coaching search.
Fredddie's got it right.
October 25th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
Then.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
Fire this motherfucker now!!!
October 25th, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
(With me getting 100% on the above essay test, I'm on course to soon get a Tar Heel diploma, right?)
October 25th, 2014 at 6:41 PM ^
Eh, fuck you man.
You have no idea what kind of work went into getting my Carolina diploma.
October 25th, 2014 at 7:18 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^
algebraic topology was fake as fuck. i must have dreamed up all the all-nighters i spent working on those problem sets.
nuclear physics? fake as fuck. they gave me the grade just for showing up, right?
you probably think whatever you studied was hard. you don't know the meaning of the word.
October 25th, 2014 at 8:23 PM ^
October 26th, 2014 at 3:32 PM ^
i have never taken an easy class in my life. i took the most difficult classes available to me from start to finish, worked my ass off, and i'm the first person from my family to get a degree. so when people start talking shit about it, you'd better believe i have a chip on my shoulder.
October 25th, 2014 at 8:48 PM ^
the AFAM department. You might want to settle down and have some sympathy for those fellow alums of yours. Nobody really thinks your degree is fake.
October 25th, 2014 at 9:40 PM ^
It was meant as a poke at your university in the aftermath of the academic scandal that you may have read about over this past week, not you personally.
As a olive branch to you, +1 for all the hard work you obviously had to do to earn your diploma. It's unfortunate that those no-work fake classes which were used to falsely keep UNC athletes eligible reflect unjustly and badly on all legitimate UNC grads.
October 26th, 2014 at 12:52 AM ^
... you did not take the course, "How to take a joke"... or that was one of the fake ones.
October 25th, 2014 at 9:37 PM ^
Frances.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
1. Physicallity
2. GREAT practices
3. Competing
4. Even more great practices
5. Probably the finest practices in the history of practices
You would miss all that and probably some other stuff
October 25th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
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October 25th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
I don't see the point in keeping him here any longer. There is no way in hell he's here next year after the shitshow he has produced on the field. Beyond pathetic coaching has been demonstrated this season.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
Nothing is gained by keeping him. Keeping him only causes fans to have their souls ripped apart because they want Michigan to win every game, but they also know losing is better for long term program health because it guarantees changes. If they made a change now, that inner dilemna would at least go away.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
502 Bad Gateway
October 25th, 2014 at 6:38 PM ^
Brady's playbook.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
This game is an example of why I want Harbaugh as coach. The players are just going through the motions. Hoke and the staff are clueless in preparation and clock management and now even motivation is in question with how unready the players look to start a game.
Also, Harbaugh wouldn't be afraid to speak his mind and mix it up with douchebags like Dantonio. The sad thing is I think this team could play with MSU if they showed any heart. I know the play calling isn't ideal, but the players just seem to be interested in getting back on the bus.
Everyone is saying the right things but you can't tell me Hoke hasn't lost the team.
October 25th, 2014 at 7:54 PM ^
It's not just that the coaches are clueless--I am so tired of hearing the bashing of the Michigan Man. If Bo were on the sideline when Morris got drilled he would have given the officials the what for. That's what a Michigan Man is all about.
I'd love to have a coach who is an advocate for his players. That begins with being involved with what is going on--like wearing a damn headset.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
October 25th, 2014 at 6:21 PM ^
In recruiting, it helps to keep your class together. It's preferable to have someone, even a lame duck, there to keep recruiting the players.
This does not of course mean that you can't send feelers through back channels to potential targets to replace him.
October 25th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
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