The apparent muddled and sloppy transition from RR to Hoke may not have been so. Consider this scenario: Brandon wanted to replace RR with Hoke at some earlier and appropriate time, say after the OSU debacle, but that would have created a firestorm (i.e. after firing RR, what’s the rush? where’s the national search with $ as no obstacle). DB needed to create a plausible artifice. Hence, he waits weeks until 2011 to begin his (as the sole search “committee” member) very public pursuit of two desirable but unobtainable “Michigan men” (Harbaugh and Miles) and his self-proclaimed whirlwind tour of unnamed but eminent coaching candidates (which he can never name), leaving him at the last moment - with signing day imminent - with the savior Hoke to parachute in without even inquiring about salary. DB did not get to be a CEO of a corporation run by venture capitalists by being a stumbler or accidental genius. Whether his Machiavellian shenanigans are also appropriate for a great public university is another question.
The apparent muddled and sloppy transition from RR to Hoke may not have been so. Consider this scenario: Brandon wanted to replace RR with Hoke at some earlier and appropriate time, say after the OSU debacle, but that would have created a firestorm (i.e. after firing RR, what’s the rush? where’s the national search with $ as no obstacle). DB needed to create a plausible artifice. Hence his (as the sole search “committee” member) very public pursuit of two desirable but unobtainable “Michigan men” (Harbaugh and Miles) and his self-proclaimed whirlwind tour of unnamed but eminent coaching candidates (which he can never name), leaving him at the last moment - with signing day imminent - with Hoke parachuting in without even inquiring about salary. DB did not get to be a CEO of a corporation run by venture capitalists by being a stumbler or accidental genius. Whether his Machiavellian shenanigans are also appropriate for a great public university is another question.
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The apparent muddled and sloppy transition from RR to Hoke may not have been so. Consider this scenario: Brandon wanted to replace RR with Hoke at some earlier and appropriate time, say after the OSU debacle, but that would have created a firestorm (i.e. after firing RR, what’s the rush? where’s the national search with $ as no obstacle). DB needed to create a plausible artifice. Hence, he waits weeks until 2011 to begin his (as the sole search “committee” member) very public pursuit of two desirable but unobtainable “Michigan men” (Harbaugh and Miles) and his self-proclaimed whirlwind tour of unnamed but eminent coaching candidates (which he can never name), leaving him at the last moment - with signing day imminent - with the savior Hoke to parachute in without even inquiring about salary. DB did not get to be a CEO of a corporation run by venture capitalists by being a stumbler or accidental genius. Whether his Machiavellian shenanigans are also appropriate for a great public university is another question.
The apparent muddled and sloppy transition from RR to Hoke may not have been so. Consider this scenario: Brandon wanted to replace RR with Hoke at some earlier and appropriate time, say after the OSU debacle, but that would have created a firestorm (i.e. after firing RR, what’s the rush? where’s the national search with $ as no obstacle). DB needed to create a plausible artifice. Hence his (as the sole search “committee” member) very public pursuit of two desirable but unobtainable “Michigan men” (Harbaugh and Miles) and his self-proclaimed whirlwind tour of unnamed but eminent coaching candidates (which he can never name), leaving him at the last moment - with signing day imminent - with Hoke parachuting in without even inquiring about salary. DB did not get to be a CEO of a corporation run by venture capitalists by being a stumbler or accidental genius. Whether his Machiavellian shenanigans are also appropriate for a great public university is another question.