Ann Arbor, Mich. ? Brady Hoke has a few things in common with the late Bo Schembechler.

He is from Ohio, he didn’t attend Michigan, he’s climbing the coaching ladder — and he’s about to take over the football program that Schembechler built into a national power.

Michigan hired Hoke away from San Diego State, with athletic director Dave Brandon announcing the move Tuesday at a previously scheduled team meeting not long after LSU said Les Miles was staying in the Bayou instead of going to coach at the Big House.

“We thought it was going to be a meeting about classes and the weight room,” tight end Kevin Koger said. “Mr. Brandon came in and dropped the news on us.”

Brandon insisted Hoke was always Plan A. What about Miles or Jim Harbaugh, who left Stanford for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers?

“The job was never offered to them,” Brandon said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We did have different discussions with them that were helpful and positive.”

College football’s winningest team got a Michigan man, just not the one most of their fans were clamoring for after Brandon fired Rich Rodriguez a week ago.