45 Facts About Brady Hoke

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Brady Patrick Hoke is an American football coach in his second stint as the head football coach at San Diego State University.

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Brady Hoke served as the head football coach at the University of Michigan from 2011 to 2014.

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Brady Hoke began his coaching career in 1982 and held assistant coaching positions at Grand Valley State, Western Michigan, Toledo, Oregon State, and Michigan.

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Brady Hoke left his assistant coaching position at Michigan in December 2002 to become the head football coach at his alma mater, Ball State.

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In six years at Ball State, Brady Hoke was credited with turning around the football program.

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In December 2008, Brady Hoke was hired as the head football coach at San Diego State University.

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Brady Hoke led the 2010 San Diego State Aztecs football team to the school's first season with at least nine wins since 1977 and a victory over Navy in the 2010 Poinsettia Bowl.

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8.

Brady Hoke returned to Michigan after he was hired as the program's 19th head football coach on January 11,2011.

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Brady Hoke was the interim head coach at the University of Tennessee at the end of the 2017 season.

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Brady Hoke graduated from Fairmont East High School in Kettering, Ohio, in 1977.

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Brady Hoke went on to play football as a linebacker at Ball State University, where he was a four-year letterman from 1977 to 1980.

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Brady Hoke helped the 1978 Ball State Cardinals football team win the Mid-American Conference championship.

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Brady Hoke tallied 99 tackles as a sophomore, 95 as a junior and 150 as a senior.

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Brady Hoke was the captain of Ball State's 1980 team and was selected as a second-team All-MAC player.

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Brady Hoke began his coaching career in 1982 as the defensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Yorktown High School in Yorktown, Indiana.

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Brady Hoke began his college coaching career as the defensive line coach at Grand Valley State University in 1983.

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Brady Hoke was Western Michigan's defensive line coach from 1984 to 1986.

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Brady Hoke next served as the linebackers coach at the University of Toledo from 1987 to 1989.

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Brady Hoke served as an assistant coach at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1994 under head coaches Dave Kragthorpe and his successor Jerry Pettibone.

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Brady Hoke was the Beavers' defensive line coach in every season except 1990, when coached the inside linebackers.

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Brady Hoke was retained in 1991 by Oregon State's new head coach, Jerry Pettibone.

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In February 1995, Brady Hoke was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan under head coach Gary Moeller.

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Brady Hoke was the defensive end coach in 1995 and 1996 and defensive line coach from 1997 to 2002.

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One of the players Hoke recruited to Michigan was future legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady.

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In December 2002, Brady Hoke was hired as the 14th head football coach at his alma mater, Ball State University, signing a five-year contract at $125,000 per season.

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26.

Brady Hoke was among a group of candidates to succeed Bill Lynch, which included Illinois secondary coach Mike Mallory, Ohio State linebackers coach Mark Snyder, and Wisconsin offensive coordinator Brian White.

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Brady Hoke is goal-oriented and has a great motivation to be the best that he can be.

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Brady Hoke took over a Ball State football program that had not had a winning record since 1996.

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Brady Hoke's teams won only 10 games in his first three seasons as head coach.

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In December 2008, Brady Hoke was hired as the 17th head football coach at San Diego State University.

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Brady Hoke signed a five-year contract with a guaranteed payment of $3,525,000, plus incentives for hitting revenue marks and bowl berths.

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Brady Hoke won a reputation for recruiting at San Diego State.

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Brady Hoke has a great feel for parents and a great feel for players.

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On January 11,2011, Brady Hoke was named the 19th head football coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team.

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On November 26, Brady Hoke's Wolverines defeated Ohio State in Brady Hoke's first season as the Wolverines' head coach, clinching Michigan's first 10-win season since 2006.

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Brady Hoke was announced as the University of Oregon's defensive coordinator on January 16,2016.

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Brady Hoke was not retained by new coach Willie Taggart after the firing of Mark Helfrich.

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Brady Hoke was announced as the University of Tennessee's defensive line coach on February 7,2017.

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On January 29,2018, ESPN reported that Brady Hoke was hired to coach the defensive line for the NFL's Carolina Panthers.

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The move to the NFL was a first for Brady Hoke's coaching career, as all of his previous stops had been in high school or college.

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Brady Hoke returned to San Diego State University in 2019 as defensive line coach under head coach Rocky Long.

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Brady Hoke helped the Aztecs fielded a defense that was second in rush defense allowing 75.4 yards per game and sixth in total defense allowing 287.8 yards per game in 2019.

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On January 8,2020, Rocky Long announced his retirement from coaching and Brady Hoke was named the head coach for the Aztecs.

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Brady Hoke and his wife have a daughter, Kelly, who was born in 1986 and is a Ball State graduate.

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Jon's son, Kyle Brady Hoke, played for his uncle at Ball State and was a graduate assistant coach for the Western Michigan Broncos football team in their 2012 and 2013 seasons.

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