January 31, 2012 - 1:26am
Hoke wins Maxwell Football Club Collegiate Coach of the Year Award
BY ZACH HELFAND
- Marissa McClain/Daily
The season has been over for nearly a month, but the hardware keeps rolling in for Team 132. The Maxwell Football Club named Michigan coach Brady Hoke as its Collegiate Coach of the Year on Monday, Jan. 30.
The award is Hoke’s third this season. The first-year coach earned Big Ten Coach of the Year honors, from both the coaches and the media. He was also a finalist for three other national Coach of the Year honors.
“Coach Hoke has engineered a tremendous turnaround in the Michigan football program in just one year, and it was obvious that his team improved each week,” said Maxwell Football Club executive director Mark Wolpert. “It is quite an accomplishment to compile an 11-2 record playing a rigorous Big Ten schedule in his first year at the helm. Coach Hoke has set the tone for a high degree of future success for the Michigan program.”
Established in 1935, the Maxwell Football Club is the oldest football club in the nation and has named a collegiate coach of the year since 1989. The award was named the Joseph V. Paterno Collegiate Coach of the Year Award for one year until the Maxwell Club removed the name in November of 2011.
Along with the award, Hoke received an invite to the 75th Maxwell Club National Awards Gala, which will be held at the Harrah's Atlantic City Resort on Friday, March 2. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, coach Mike McCarthy, LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu and Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, among others, will also receive awards.
Hoke compiled an 11-2 record (6-2 Big Ten) in his first year at the helm, and with a victory in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, he became the third coach to win a BCS bowl in his first season in a new program.
