I never said that should have been the case. In fact, in this thread I said Brandon should have just come out and said Hoke is our guy and leave it at that, with no mention of other candidates. For the pompous arse that he is, he doesn't owe anyone an explanation, especially not the local media here.
The entire handling of this was garbage, from saying we were going to have a national search, to then lying about offering to other candidates, to then taking swipes at candidates and former coaches etc. It was a mess and people are angry, rightly so. People were not happy with this hire, I was one of the ones, but when you sit back and take a look at everything that happened, Hoke is a victim of circumstance thanks in part to DB's ego, and it's unfair. I'm behind Hoke, because he is our coach now and deserves our support, and quite frankly, it's not his fault that the AD created this clusterf*** around him.

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Posted by Reconnisaur

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Posted on 1/13/11 at 11:49 am to um2007

UM2007 - I agree with everything you said. I guess to DB the national search was BR and California. But I think all of that crap he said was to further boost Hoke, even though he did it in a bad way.

I was unhappy with the hire for the first 5 min. Then I realized we have no choice but to support him. After the press conference he seems to be a great guy and really wants the job. Although "want" does not make you eligible for the job, it will boost his work ethic and "want" can take you a long way.

The last big hire, RR, didnt work out for us. I really dont know what his thought process was, the circumstances in which things never seemed to look up for us or improve things where we needed to. I think with Coach Hoke, if he sees that somthing is not working, he will take measures fix it do to his want and hunger and is not the guy to rest on his laurels as he doesnt have alot. I think RR totally blew off our defense and failed to address it (and special teams for that matter).

I think Coach Hoke can do alot more now with his resources available to him than what he had in the past at his last HC jobs.

I said before in another post - We will see how far we come in 2012 when we play Alabama. Everyone will expect us to get our teeth kicked in. We will see...

We also need to beat his old team this year as well.

One other thing going for Michigan this year... the schedule isnt very tough. Good year for things to gel.

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