By: Bruce Hooley (FoxSportsOhio.com) -

It worked well enough once to chart an impeccable course for almost half a century, so it’s no surprise Michigan returned to that time-tested formula to fix its woebegone football fortunes.

Bo Schembechler, the native son of Ohio who jolted the Wolverines juggernaut out of the doldrums, would approve of Brady Hoke as the right guy for the immense task of retooling Michigan in much the same way it was accomplished back in 1969.

Schembechler rolled into Ann Arbor then with a commitment to toughness and a stubborn refusal to bend under the behemoth 200 miles to the south in Columbus.

Ohio State was coming off an unbeaten national championship and a 50-14 spanking of Michigan the season before Schembechler took over, much as the Buckeyes rule the Big Ten now with six straight conference titles and a three-year dominance of the Wolverines by a cumulative score of 100-24……

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