The University of Michigan announced today on its official sports site and Twitter feed that it had hired former San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke as its new football coach.

Hoke, who most recently spent six years turning around the Ball State football program and two years as head football coach at San Diego State, was defensive line for eight seasons under coach Lloyd Carr at Michigan. Read more…

The Rivals.com Michigan football website reports Tuesday afternoon:

Sources tell us (San Diego State head football coach Brady) Hoke has informed his staff he would meet with Michigan, with a plane en route to pick him up and bring him back to Ann Arbor. Due to the travel schedule it is unlikely an announcement would come today, but if a deal is made, it could be announced Wednesday.

Further fueling speculation that San Diego State head football coach Brady Hoke could be Michigan’s next head football coach was that the private plane used by Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon to travel to Baton Rouge to meet with Les Miles was seen flying to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California today. (Airport is located between L.A. and San Diego.)

Brent Schrotenboer of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE also reported today that Hoke was recruiting in the vicinity of John Wayne airport.

On December 10, 2010, Schrotenboer reported a conversation he had with current San Diego State President Stephen Weber about Hoke’s career aspiration: Read more…

From the San Diego State-St. Mary’s college basketball game last Monday on ESPN.

(Thought you could only get that watching The View)

Appears St. Mary’s college basketball fans aren’t afraid to share their sexual afflictions - on television that is. Thankfully, looks like the top part of the sign, which may have been implicating some poor unsuspecting soul, got cut off.

Blissfully unaware Terry Gannon and Stephen Bardo on the call.

San Diego State strength coach David Ohton has filed a whistle-blower protection suit against the university, stemming from his involvement in a Cal State audit of SDSU athletics in 2002. Lawyers representing Ohton and the school met in court to determine if the case should go to trial, be thrown out, or handled by the CSU system.

The main points of contention are based around Ohton’s claims that former head football coach Tom Craft was drinking excessively in 2002, and even before a game. Attorneys for the university say Ohton has maliciously exaggerated the claims about Craft. David Ohton’s lawyers disagree. Read more…