Michigan AD Dave Brandon: Brady Hoke Hired as Michigan Football Coach

…Mrs. Hoke’s maiden name is …Homberger! Ol’ Brady was thinkin’ with his stomach when he got married, too! Ha! I kinda like that.

I’m optimistic after reading this and this.

Best of luck to him. Here’s hoping he brings in great coordinators and gets every player of note to stay and can get some good recruits back off the fence.

I hope he does well, and so does Michigan, and not for just 1 or 2 years (a la Weis at ND his first two years before he fell off a cliff). I have my suspicions that won’t be the case, but I hope I’m wrong.

Hey, everyone thought the Chizik hire a few years ago was bad, right?

HOKE! Look, he may not be who you wanted, but deal with it. Dave Brandon did a terrible job with this. I have no problem that he chose Hoke. I have a problem that it was Hoke from the beginning and he just ran around all over pretending to give other people a chance to satisfy Michigan fans. You can’t justify Miles over Hoke. If he didn’t offer the job to anyone, then he needs to make that clear because by another coach or athletic director saying that they are happy where they are or they have kept their coach, it deteriorates the Michigan brand, something he said he wanted to build up. But no, Dave Brandon epitomizes what everyone hates about Michigan, arrogance. Arrogance with the media, arrogance with his own school’s fans, arrogance in every facet of the word. He said he was thinking long term about the hire, and I agree he should, but then why did you ever even fire Rich Rod? From a long term approach, it was worth another year with a new DC. Basically, he took a short term approach with Rich Rod and now a long term approach with the new coach. Whatever, I’m just venting.

We have a coach, now he has to recruit his ass off and build a staff littered with people who understand Michigan and are successful. As fans we have to support the hell out of the coaching staff and the players. Honestly, don’t be upset with the Hoke hire, if anything, be furious with David Brandon. The only acceptable apology would be to nullify the Adidas contract and bring Nike back.

Also, I hope he clarifies how he feels about the spread offense. I feel like one quote is getting read into waaaaaay too much. Can we start speculating on the staff now. Shoelace?

Not crazy about this decision. It might have been a harder sell politically, but I think the team might have been better off in the long run with Gus Malzahn or Randy Shannon. Brandon rolled the dice here that he could get Harbaugh and I think he may have overestimated the attractiveness of the M job given the way Rodriguez was run out of town.

That said, I will support coach Hoke and I hope that the fans will learn some patience and some perspective.

Whether it does work remains to be seen, but I like bringing in a guy that understands defense. Yes, he ran the 3-3-5 at SDSU, but he worked with successful variations of it when he was a position coach in the Pac Ten. He isn’t Bo. But nobody could be Bo. I’m just hoping he isn’t a Carr.

Brady Hoke was a DL coach at Michigan for 8 years, I’m sure he knows what defense would be successful in the Big Ten. People are getting waay to worried about another 3-3-5. And who knows, maybe Hoke actually knows how to run the 3-3-5 properly. If you watched the Rose Bowl, TCU ran it pretty well against Wisco.

Lets let it play out before jumping off the cliff… Who will his OC and DC be? Or his scheme? That doesn’t interest me… BTW. I’m expecting Rockey Long, his DC and former New Mexico HC and Oregon State DC, to stay on as the SDSU HC. How does he do at holding on to the current players, and how does he do at pullign together a recruiting class. My first indication of problems with RichRod was when Mallet, Manningham, and Arrington left almost immediately. One thing Hoke has shown is a willing to adjust his scheme based on the players… What a concept a coach who doesn’t believe in magic scheme, but teaching players the fundamentals and then putting them in position to succeed.

By the way, in case no one noticed..
Sept. 24, 2011 – San Diego State comes into Michigan Stadium to play against Wolverines and their former coach. I am sure Hoke’s former players, especially Ronnie Hillman, would like show him what he left at SDSU. Just what we need, a team coming into Michigan Stadium with something to prove. Oh god.

FWIW: SDSU losses this year
1. Utah 38 SDSU 34 2. TCU 40 SDSU 35 3. BYU 24 SDSU 21 4. Missouri 27 SDSU 24. Other than BYU, the other losses are against very good teams. Scoring 35 agaist TCU with that D is huge. Michigans losses to good teams were all drubbings. As a lifelong fan and season ticket holder I am in for Hoke. Hope it works out or we could have the decade plus disaster ND had with bad hires. Go blue!

Hoke’s UM D-line is was the most dominant in my remember-able history. We’ll all just have to take a deep breath and see what coaches he’ll bring/if RRod’s people all want to jump ship. Will Calvin McGee stay a year or two to keep Shoelace and the spread humming? The Hoke can say WTF this is how defense is played? Who knows, not me, not the MSM so I’ll shut it until I hear something and think positively because 198-3 against the lesser known MSU feels like rock bottom.

I think Hoke is a guy that doesn’t give a flying jack about what system is ran so until we see/hear something in the fall we can stfu. He wants to put forth the best squad he can. While he doesn’t have the credentials I think there is more upside. I also would have to think that Hoke knows the UM players somewhat and has been paying attention unlike RR who didn’t even know what state Ann Arbor was in.

How many years would Les want to coach here before retiring? We may have set ourselves up for yet another search.

I said a week or two ago it would be Hoke because of the hostile environment. We wanted the best(12-1 guys) or previous Michigan coaches and it left us with a short list. Not many people wanted to leave the limelight after the normal coaching change period and move into a place where they’ll be tarred and feathered as soon as they get off the A2 Saline Road/State Street exit.

good soild hire by um they now have a coach who can get players from mi and the medwest and cal will most lickely use the offense he has for next few years he be dumb to change now also he be smart to keep rich rods recriuter for flonida he could use some of those players for his defense next year asfor the defense he most lickely will use a defense licke he ran when he worck for car that means he will locking for players who our big to fill his defense line next year and will sigin aleast 3dt in this cass if im michigan state you will now have fight to get best players in mi the party is now ovear .