Brady Hoke
It seemed all but certain Brady Hoke would get the axe, particularly with the rather lame season.
And Tuesday, he did get fired, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The Michigan Daily reports that Hoke will get a $3 million buyout because he was let go before Dec. 31. Under his contract, he would have gotten only $2 million had he been fired after Dec. 31.
In all, with the buyout, he'll have made $14.4 million during his four-year tenure.
Hoke had a highly-publicized meeting today with interim athletic director Jim Hackett.
A replacement has yet to be named.
But the Michigan Daily reports that some names circulating in the rumor mill include San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and LSU coach Les Miles.
The Freep writes:
The dream job became a nightmare.
A little less than four years after he said he would have walked to Michigan from San Diego to coach U-M, Brady Hoke has been fired, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Hoke's tenure at Michigan was an inverted fairy tale, the happy ending at the beginning of the book, consistently regressing to a point of no return -- at least with Hoke as the leader.
-- Allan Lengel
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