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Sugar Bowl Preview: Brady Hoke Leads Wolverines to a BCS Bowl Game in his First Season at Michigan

Friday, December 30th, 2011

It may not have been exactly how he envisioned things materializing, but at the end of the day, all that matters is that Brady Hoke has the Michigan Wolverines in a BCS bowl game in his first season as head coach of the storied program. Michigan didn't make the Big ...

Rich Rodriguez Lands on His Feet at Arizona (Which By The Way He Never Visited)

Monday, November 28th, 2011

It seemed like a forgone conclusion that Rich Rodriguez would get back into coaching, it was simply a matter of when and where. Those questions were answered last week when Rodriguez was hired as the next coach at Arizona, taking over for the fired Mike Stoops. Now there will be plenty ...

Brady Hoke on the Michigan Defense: “There were still probably more negatives that we needed to work out this week than positives”

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Brady Hoke came to Michigan looking to return the program back to prominence. The moment that he had been waiting for, his first game was certainly a memorable one. In one of the rarest things that I can remember in college football, the game was called early because of a ...

Brady Hoke Waxes Poetic as He Prepares For His First Season at Michigan

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Just three seasons ago, Brady Hoke was getting the Ball State Cardinals ready for what would wind up being a dream season. They very nearly went undefeated and the special year had Hoke packing his bags for San Diego State. In two seasons there, he turned around an Aztecs program ...

Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez: “To Win, You Don’t Have to do Things Illegally”

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

With recent NCAA violations committed by USC and Ohio State and many more investigations into other programs, it's becoming increasingly harder to believe that teams can compete at an elite level without cheating. Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez wants to make it clear that not everyone is cheating. "To win, you ...

Brady Hoke Has Started His Road to Making Michigan Relevant Again

Monday, April 25th, 2011

After another disappointing season at Michigan and an embarrassing bowl loss when his defense was a sieve, Rich Rodriguez was fired. The Wolverines hired Brady Hoke from San Diego State and while some may scoff at the decision because Michigan didn’t get a coach with a “bigger” name or a ...

New Michigan Football Coach Brady Hoke Continues to Make Strong Early Impression with His Plans and Visions for the Future

Friday, January 14th, 2011

The University of Michigan feels they got the right guy when they announced on Tuesday that Brady Hoke would be the 19th head coach in the program's rich 131 year history. Hoke, a former Michigan assistant during the 1997 championship season, had spent the last eight years building up two ...