Photo via MVictors. Transcript Via Sugar Bowl media relations: Allstate Sugar Bowl Michigan Post-Game Press Conference Head Coach Brady Hoke Quarterback Denard Robinson Wide Receiver and MVP Junior Hemingway Place Kicker Brendan Gibbons THE MODERATOR: Welcome to the official postgame press conference for the 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl. We’ll begin with Michigan head coach Brady Hoke. We’ve been joined by Denard Robinson, Junior Hemingway, and Brendan Gibbons. At this time I’m going to turn it over to Coach Hoke, a few thoughts on the game, and we’ll open the floor for questions. COACH HOKE: You know, thank you. It was a great college football game. Two teams who played extremely hard, two teams that played for each other. I think Virginia Tech and Coach Beamer, they did an excellent job, when you look at how they defended us a little bit and then offensively and then you look at the Michigan Wolverines and how our guys stayed together, complemented each other. We talked about playing 60 minutes of Michigan football. We played about 63 and a half, I think. So I’m just real proud, real proud of our seniors, real proud of how they took this football team last January and molded it and did a tremendous job. And we always have a tremendous legacy…
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Sugar Bowl Pregame Photos
A few from pregame live from the Super Dome! “They didn’t even check my ID! I love New Orleans!!” Denard doing the LMFAO Party Anthem shuffle (trust me) A tribute to DenardX?
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TWIMFbH– A Rosy Conclusion to 1988
Happy New Year, and happy game day! Here’s the final installment of This Week in Michigan Football History, this time a look back the season of 1988 and more specifically, the Rose Bowl played on January 2, 1989. After a rocky start, things got rosy real fast as Michigan busted through the Big Ten scheduled and landed once again in Pasadena to face Heisman Trophy runner-up Rodney Peete and the USC Trojans. As always, you can listen to it out before the KeyBank Countdown to Kick-off on WTKA 1050AM later today, or click play now: [display_podcast] You can hear all of the This Week… clips here. Follow MVictors on Twitter. Beat Hokies!
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Is Michigan Back? Hoke: “Michigan Never Left” (Full Sugar Bowl presser)
It’s a first class operation here in New Orleans. Follow me on Twitter for coverage tomorrow. Here’s a couple photos from today’s press conference and the full transcript. Beamer and Hoke sharing a chuckle, looking sharp: Here’s a look at the Sugar Bowl trophy: Full transcript from the press conference today: THE MODERATOR: We’ll go ahead and get started with coach Brady Hoke, Michigan head coach. Coach, just a few thoughts on how your preparations have gone for the game, and we’ll open the floor for questions. COACH HOKE: Well, first, on behalf of the University of Michigan and Team 132, our kids, the staff, trainers, the marching band, everybody, we can’t tell you how thrilled we are to be here and how much we appreciate the great hospitality the city of New Orleans has given us and the Bowl committee, the Sugar Bowl committee, and all their people and their efforts. It’s been great. I want to thank Tulane and the opportunity to use their facilities. They were tremendous, and really as a team I think we’ve had good preparations starting back in Ann Arbor, navigating finals and all those things that are a part of it. And then coming down here, I think our team has really done well. I think we’ve gone out every day and…
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Live From the Sugar Bowl (Hoke Press Conference)
Brady Hoke Sugar Bowl Presser Jan-2
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Greg Mattison–Sugar Bowl Press Conference
Via Sugar Bowl media relations: (File photo) THE MODERATOR: We’re joined by Michigan Defensive Coordinator Greg Mattison. Opening comments? COACH MATTISON: First of all, I can tell you on behalf of the Michigan football program we’re really honored and proud to be here. This is a tremendous Bowl. And I know you couldn’t tell by looking at me but I have been in a lot of Bowl games, and the Sugar Bowl is one that I haven’t been in, and it’s really a great Bowl. The people down here have been tremendous, and I know our players would echo that. You can tell by how they’ve acted and how they responded, and they really have enjoyed themselves down here. THE MODERATOR: Questions? Q. Asking about the novelty of facing an ACC team. These conferences don’t tend to get together during the regular season. You guys like the fact that it is a novelty game going against the Hokies? COACH MATTISON: I don’t know if I would look at it as the Big Ten versus the ACC. I think it’s more Michigan having the opportunity to play a team like Virginia Tech. You know, Virginia Tech has a great tradition. They have had tremendous success. And you can see why they have been so good. And it’s going to be a…
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Bacon Goes Nationwide (Rome audio 12-29)
John U. Bacon graced the national airwaves today, joining the Jim Rome show hosted by U-M grads, Jason and Randy Sklar. Bacon discussed Three and Out with the Sklars and shared the situation on the ground in Ann Arbor in the aftermath of the first season of the Hoke era: [display_podcast] HT to Matt for providing the audio Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Touch Down in New Orleans (Opening Presser Quotes)
Quotes from Michigan upon arrival at Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans, via Sugar Bowl media relations: Michigan Head Coach Brady Hoke (Opening Statement) “We are very excited and feel very welcome coming to New Orleans and having the opportunity to play in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This is something we have been looking forward to and our players have done a good job preparing to this point. We are going to play a tremendous opponent and we think it is going to be a heck of a football game.” (On playing in a BCS bowl game) “This is where Michigan should be. It is an expectation for Michigan to be in BCS bowl games.” (On getting team prepared for the Allstate Sugar Bowl) “You can look at it a lot of different ways. I think the one thing that is important for us is that we don’t do too much. We don’t want to wear our team out too much. We’ve got a great city that we are in and there are probably some distractions to that. I think our guys, our seniors and our captains have done a tremendous job making sure we are sharp.” (On the possibility of the team getting distracted) “There are always rules. We have high expectations on how we are going to act…
