You are Brady Hoke. What is your approach towards the team this week?
I like these "You are..." themed stories. What is Coach Hoke's approach towards the team this week? Here are some thoughts I had.
(1) You (the players) are defined at Michigan by what you do against Ohio State. BEAT OHIO.
(2) This is a chance to create a memory for yourselves (seniors) or for the seniors.
(3) This is our bowl game. (Obviously, any bowl oppoent will not be as good as Ohio State.)
(4) Light them up that they have underperformed and can salvage the season with a win here.
(5) Don't overstate the game's importance. Focus on the process of getting better each day.
(6) Other (explain)
November 24th, 2013 at 2:45 PM ^
For the kids playing an entire season w/o the leadership and coaching they deserved?
November 24th, 2013 at 2:47 PM ^
looks like they don't have the fanbase they deserve, either =(
November 24th, 2013 at 2:58 PM ^
The united front by the Hoke defenders and apologists!
November 24th, 2013 at 3:04 PM ^
http://mgoblog.com/diaries/experience-and-success-offensive-line-part-i-running-game
you should check out the part under the heading "interior oline experience and YPC"
sorry bud, as much as you'd all like to think otherwise, there really are some things that coaching just won't fix
November 24th, 2013 at 4:03 PM ^
Given the youth and depth of the OL, I don't think that anyone expected "great", "good", or even "above average" from the offense. I think "average" or even "below average" would have been acceptable to most reasonable people (and likely resulted in 10 wins when you think about how close every loss except MSU was).
However, with a somewhat experienced quarterback, two senior tackles (one of whom is going to go at the top of the first round in the NFL), and at least average talent (if not depth) at RB and WR, the complete and total disaster that this offense has been has to fall on coaching.
Having no experience in the middle of the line does not resign an offensive unit to be terrible, it just means they won't be great.
November 24th, 2013 at 4:44 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 4:54 PM ^
keep arguing against the math, it is *quite* amusing
November 24th, 2013 at 5:04 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 5:10 PM ^
Don't try to hide behind the statistics. So next year we should expect around 1/3 added to the current YPC. That is so encouraging.
November 24th, 2013 at 5:50 PM ^
I wasn't making excuses, I said it fell on the staff.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:19 PM ^
Let's fire our coach every year they do not go 14-0. What could go wrong?
Obviously that's an exaggeration, but Michigan could benefit from some coaching stability, at least at the HC position.
November 24th, 2013 at 4:26 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 5:01 PM ^
Just as a quick public service announcement.
A dude who was trolling all over this thread got nuked, so a lot of the responses below are probably going to look weird.
Carry on.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:00 PM ^
I saw instead of booing Borges and the coaches, we Boo fans like you!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 24th, 2013 at 2:48 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 2:59 PM ^
the 1969 OSU team was a juggernaut, coming in having gone for 2 at the end of the previous year's 50-14 ass whipping.
Hoke should go "full Bo" including the inspirational captain's speech, followed by charging out of the locker room through the unopened (fake) door.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:01 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:02 PM ^
Need a real HC in order to do that
Maybe once BH has been fired?
Hopefully soon
November 24th, 2013 at 3:04 PM ^
boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 24th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
does your mommy replenish your babyfood before or after she changes your diaper?
November 24th, 2013 at 3:02 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:19 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:21 PM ^
What, exactly, is the reason we should "get over it"?
November 24th, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:31 PM ^
I still don't understand how respecting/adoring/loving Bo makes us an average, "far-from-elite" program in 2013. As you said, no direct impact on the program for 20 years.
There's something to be said about dropping the "Michigan Man" coaching thing but would you still be saying that if we had landed Les Miles or Jim Harbaugh?
November 24th, 2013 at 5:04 PM ^
The fact that every. single. time. we face any kind of adversity we reference a guy who hasn't coached in 25 years means that we can never live in the present and focus on the future.
We have gone from making the "michigan man" thing be something extra to placing it in the forefront of our program. Harbaugh and Miles would have been great hires regardless of their affiliation with Michigan. Their connection to the program would have been an added bonus. The reason we have Brady Hoke, who had an all-time losing record and no history of winning championships, is because we have so many people inside and outside the administration that puts the connection to Bo ahead of everything else.
Yes. Bo was a great coach. Yes. 1969 was a big upset. Yes. He gave a great speech and inspired people. But, he has no more impact on the current team than Yost, Crisler, etc, or at least, he shouldn't have any impact on the current team.
The man has been dead for 7 years. Over that time he's gone from an old coach that we loved to a god that we as a program worship. Anyone who doesn't worship him is deemed a heretic. And now we're about to get smoked by Ohio State. They have a coach who's won 2 national titles and is on the verge of his third season where he's won all his games, which, just for note, Bo never did. Why do they have that coach? Because Ohio State has spent less time time worrying about Woody Hayes and patting themselves on the back for games played four decades ago and more time looking at the college football landscape's change and responding accordingly.
November 24th, 2013 at 5:15 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 7:54 PM ^
Love Bo, but the hero worship for someone who hasn't been coach here for a quarter century is exhausting. Not sure if the obsession is so much a cause of our shortcomings or more a symptom of the seemingly permanent nostalgic state from which we operate. We really have become ND.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
I got the yips
November 24th, 2013 at 3:32 PM ^
The undefeated defending national chammpion Buckeyes were thought to be the "team of the century". It wasn't Michigan's own play that caused them to be a 15 point underdog.
1969 Michigan Wolverines
W/L |
Date |
PF |
Opponent |
PA |
Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W |
09-20-1969 |
42 |
Vanderbilt (TN) |
14 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
W |
09-27-1969 |
45 |
Washington |
7 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
L |
10-04-1969 |
17 |
Missouri |
40 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
W |
10-11-1969 |
31 |
Purdue (IN) |
20 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
L |
10-18-1969 |
12 |
Michigan St. |
23 |
East Lansing, MI |
W |
10-25-1969 |
35 |
Minnesota |
9 |
Minneapolis, MN |
W |
11-01-1969 |
35 |
Wisconsin |
7 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
W |
11-08-1969 |
57 |
Illinois |
0 |
Champaign, IL |
W |
11-15-1969 |
51 |
Iowa |
6 |
Iowa City, IA |
W |
11-22-1969 |
24 |
Ohio St. |
12 |
Ann Arbor, MI |
http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/1965-1969_yearl…
November 24th, 2013 at 2:59 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:02 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:04 PM ^
Have the guys gather around. Point at each one and tell them how much I care about them maybe clap a few times just to emphasize that point. Lead them all in a round of The Victors. Walk out. I've done all that I can do.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:06 PM ^
Is that the Michigan way?
November 24th, 2013 at 3:15 PM ^
how about your way? Get hammered drunk and rant on a message board?
November 24th, 2013 at 3:17 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
Welllllllll... Clap a lot. Throw some points out there. Defer to my coordinators.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^
"I don't envy his current position"
Hoke's head coaching mettle will be tested this week, that's for sure.
Best he can do is minimize lingering damage from previous games and get their focus on the upcoming game. Win or lose, if they play with intensity and focus then Hoke will have succeeded in that goal. But if they play as if they don't care, then Hoke will have failed in that goal, and that will be a very big problem for Hoke.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
That's for damn sure.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:07 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:08 PM ^
blamed the players a coupla weeks ago
Unreal
November 24th, 2013 at 3:11 PM ^
fuck off
November 24th, 2013 at 3:19 PM ^
November 24th, 2013 at 3:08 PM ^
for next year?
November 24th, 2013 at 3:09 PM ^
maybe you should try doing something else for an afternoon if football is making you this miserable
November 24th, 2013 at 3:12 PM ^
hate inept coaches like Hoke
How can you justify 10 losses, so far, in 2 years?
November 24th, 2013 at 3:16 PM ^
I am amazed by the amount of evidence you have posted to advance your argument. You are a real Clarence Darrow.
November 24th, 2013 at 3:13 PM ^