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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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…
