Brady Hoke comments on Harbaugh, Brandon & tenure at Michigan

I like hoke, but I was hoping for more support for Harbaugh. He seemed a little tepid.

Home is a good man, I believe. But you can see the difference in the interview between him and Harbaugh.

Harbaugh wants to WIN! He will go after it with singular intensity. It sounds like from the interview that Brady wasn't as committed to that.

To mix all sorts of things he reminds me of McClellan. He could recruit the guys bet didn't want to put them through the ringer to win.

To an extent I get it. I don't know that I could do that job. But at a smaller school he'd be a guy I'd who I'd be happy to have coach my son.

The biggest problem though is that team was falling apart. Execution was at lions under Daryl Rogers level and falling. Organization was shattering, with 10 men on he field and the concussion incident.

I know he kind of can't admit those things, but still... Don't go off defending yourself as doing a good job when the objective reality was so different.

"Dantonio got a chance to stay and build a program"

By his fourth year Dantonio didn't have the same issues Brady did

Hoke is fairly disingenious in these comments.  This is not surprising to me.

I honestly do not feel that he worked all that hard as HC at Michigan.  Yeah, he may have been around the building "putting in hours" but did he really maximize his time and potential as HC? Doubt it.  Did he earn his $4 million a year contract?  Doubt it.  Did he constantly talk big while producing small?  Yes.

This is not to rip on him, he peformed to his own level of mediocrity.  It was Dave Brandon after all, who made this hire (which no doubt explains a good chunk of Hoke's reference for DB).

Hoke Failed.  His comments are a bit self serving and dillusional in that he is not taking responsibility for his Failure.

The greatest coaches are fanatical about their work ethic and success follows that.  Hoke just didnt have "it"

If Harbaugh isn't a HR, Brady was a pop up fly

Thank God for Schlissel and Hackett and Harbaugh.

Cant wait for John U. Bacon's new book to come out on the whole situation of Hoke and Brandon.  That will be some interesting reading.  BTW.... when is the official date it does come out?

Those were not softball questions but the replies, particularly the extended praise of Brandon and the inability to praise Harbaugh in even a coachspeak manner, took my opinion of the man down a few notches.

Bottom line: obviously too early.

Also: we just exited a very dark period.  So nice to see the morning glow on the horizon.

I cant even  measure how depressed I'd be if this guy was still our coach.   Its laughable comparing himself to Dantonio - he had top 10-15 classes and was able to piss out money out the wazoo to hire good coaches and hired a bunch of crap coaches that almost no div 1 program wanted once they were let go.  By year 4 Dantonios' team were at least good at something.  And were tough. 

I am tired of Brady Hoke. Sorry.  Go disappear for 4 years and resurface then and talk about your good times - maybe by then I'll recover from the sad disorganized teams you put out.

after being fired from your dream job. Guy has to be hurt. He will be for a long time, and he should be. In time, he'll be most remembered for what he should be, a good man who cared about his players and loved Michigan.

Thought Jimmy said during his intro presser that he wanted to thank Brady and Laura Hoke his very good friends....Brady didn't seem to close to Jimmy

about Brady Hoke

"I am a hell of a coach," but that man speaketh with forked toungue, if only to himself. 

This interview made Hoke seem like a major asshole.

After the 2011 season I thought Hoke was the coach Michigan had been looking for. Even after 2012 I thought Gardner was going to be our next great QB. The 2013 season really changed my opinion of Hoke as even being a half decent coach. After KSU blew us out I knew Hoke was done at Michigan! Hoke even said in his introduction speech that  if he did not win the B1G within his first 4 years he would resign!  The offense would have been a mess this season if some how Hoke remained coach. Rudock would never had transfered and Morris would not be ready!

Wow, my boy came off really, really bitter. [edit] - Upon listening to the interview, I got no sense of bitterness. And he went on for over a minute about not being a distraction and telling the kids they have to focus on the now, which no one else mentioned in any of the comments or in the linked article. Still, you can tell he thinks he either should still he the coach or thinks the team is about to turn the corner and this year would have saved him. At least he didn't say it. Even I would have had to roll my eyes at that.

Not all of it but plenty of questions that were looking for a quote. In such situations you answer the initial question to divert or direct follow up questions. If he doesn't talk much about Harbaugh he doesn't get questions about what Harbaugh should do differently or end up being portrayed as giving advice or having Michigan's reaction to Harbaughs hire compared to his hire. I agree that his firing and Harbaugh's hiring was a tender subject with Hoke, but I would characterize it as moderately bitter. Similarly he doesn't want to get into story telling about him and Jim. So he deemphasizes the closeness of their friendship. 

There is also no reason at all for Hoke to do anything but support Brandon. In Hoke's terms this is "big boy" football, professionals don't tell tales in public, at least while the subjects are still breathing.

I took the RIchRod comment as saying in effect "Rich was a good coach who succeeded after he left Michigan, and I will too." He wasn't giving RichRod love and dumping on Harbaugh, he was telling us that his career is far from over.

Hoke, like any other coach would have liked another year. Given who replaced him, releasing him was clearly in the best interest of Michigan football, so I support Hackett's decision. Despite his and the team's problems last season, I hold the opinion that overall Hoke left the program better off than he found it. We have a new coach and a renewed expectation of future greatness. Dumping on Hoke at this stage is pointless and I wish him every success going forward.

I guess the label of "former Michigan coach" got him the job at Sirius.  He is not capable of answering a question; he can only occasionally formulate grammatically correct sentences.  

Whatever the over/under is on how many days he lasts at Sirius, I'm taking the under.  It's going to be a train wreck if he opens his mouth, and it is radio...

Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke were both horrible hires for UM. The quicker they fade into to the obscurity that they so justly deserve, the happier I will become.  Whether either, or both, are good people is not the point; they each played integral parts in in the Unversity's athletic programs going backwards, and no matter how good I could be with words, I cannot tell it as bad as it actually was.  I will simply read Bacon whenever I want to rehash it.

In a way, I have DB and BH to thank---without their bumbling, stumbling, UM might not have Harbaugh.  Sometimes you cannot appreciate the light until you walk through the darkness.

 

is even more dumb and incompetent than I ever imagined.

Really, this isn't surprising. It just lends more evidence to the fact that Hoke is just a normal human being who is a pretty nice man, not some magical molder of men who can change your life just by being around him as some people on this board would have you believe.