Hoke to be Michigan's next Head Coach
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That's official if you're wondering.
Let me first say, as Michigan is my secondary team, that I will support Brady Hoke.
I do not, however, have sufficient evidence to predict he will resurrect this program. He has a below .500 record in 8 years with pretty marginal competetition. Sure, people will point to one good season at Ball St. that ended in two thrashings and the fact he has turned SDSU around. It took him 6 years at Ball State and this is just his second at SDSU so I'm not going to hop on the Brady Hoke Resurrection to Championship Bandwagon. When Rich Rodriguez was hired, he had a much more impressive resume. According to most, Hoke came after Harbaugh, Gruden, Miles, and Pat Fitgerald at least. There may have been more like Peterson and Patterson. Clearly, this wasn't the first option. I have a real problem with waiting until January 12th to hire Brady Hoke. This class will be very poor and the attrition will be through the roof. Not a big deal except for right now, Michigan was bordering APR sanctions and bringing in Hoke will almost assuradly push that over the edge. That's what happens when you comepletely change philosophies twice in 4 years. People leave. Denard is going to leave. I can almost gaurentee that. Devin Gardner will probably leave. So then, you have Jack Kennedy left to QB this team nex year.
The short term here is not good. The long term could be, I don't know, but if Dave Brandon is going to give him 3 years like he did RR they will be doing this again from a worse position. This is a 5-6 year hire. It's a Paul Rhoads hire except I don't think Hoke is as good of a coach. I would actually say Michigan will have less wins than ISU over the next 3 years. Beyond that, anything could happen but it's going to be a rough three years for Michigan Football. Thank God for ISU football.
