Rich rod fired!!!!

[TonyM]

Harbaugh coached at the University of San Diego (USD), not San Diego State Where Hoke coached.

I'm glad we got him, I think he's young, hungry, and could do a damn good job. He's not some marquee coach who thinks his name equates to automatic victory, he knows he's going to have to work for it. Good luck Coach Hoke, right the ship!

I think the sums it up pretty well:

Hoke is no one’s “compromise” or “second-tier” coaching candidate. Not if you understand football. Not if you comprehend how he got to the point that he’s even a candidate to be Michigan’s next football coach.

Brady Hoke loves hard. He loves his family, his players, his assistant coaches, Ball State football and Michigan football.

You think winning 12 games and getting into the BCS conversation is difficult at Stanford? Try doing it at Ball State. Try doing it without a coaching office, after the school president has paid the emotionally unstable women’s basketball coach more than you. Try doing it at the place you love that doesn’t love you back.

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Hoke has been honest with his bosses. Michigan is his destination job. He has no interest in auctioning himself off to the highest bidder. He loves Ann Arbor. He’d crawl on hot, broken glass to work inside Schembechler Hall as the head coach.

I’m not speculating. He has an uncanny ability to get kids to believe in him and believe in themselves. He doesn’t do it with smooth words. He’s not smooth. He does it by being the same genuine person day after day. I’ve watched his practices, sat in his meetings, listened to him address his team before a big game, after a tough loss and on a mundane Thursday.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoot...verines-010711

He is straight from the Bo Schembechler-Lloyd Carr schools of football control: Practices are closed. Media are to be kept far behind the moats. His preference is football over just about anything else planet Earth offers. And his players love him. Not because he's soft or cuddly or sympathetic to the tackle they just missed. Rather, it's because they believe in him and the football he coaches.

http://detnews.com/article/20110106/...te-for-U-M-job

[AdamVR4]

Or in a word, Hoke is hungry. Good hire today. Let's hope Michigan fans can show some patience and recognize real progress over the next few years.

[TonyM]

That's the best part about it. I'll take young, hungry, and driven over a 'big name' anyday.

And if he gets players to return for next year, I think he can start molding them into the Pro-style team we used to have. Will we have great season next year? I doubt it, but you never know. Tressel came into OSU and started whooping us right away so it isn't impossible.

[Mikes2nd]

Rich Rod was hungry also... just his big east "dude spread offense" dumb thinking was simply not going to work against real teams....

I will miss the crying... the sappy song playing, the whining, the screaming, the faces Rich rod made... He was funnier than Steve Spurrier...

I am sure he banked his michigan millions and is laughing on the way to the bank now as he talks to the next fools to hire him.