Channel 4-WDIV: Tate to announce transfer (video)
Rewound DVR and recorded it. Badly. With poor audio, so turn up your speakers if interested...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZViRBV-Ews
Who knows how true it is. Hope it's not.
Go Blue!
September 5th, 2010 at 11:59 PM ^
Was just about to say this. It may still be processing, I guess.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:00 AM ^
Actually, the video was there - I watched it when the OP first put up the link. And what he said was true. But its weird that its gone now. Its also weird that the video was up so fast.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:27 AM ^
Is this nearly inaudible for anybody else?
September 6th, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
It was quiet for me, but i could hear it fine when i cranked my speakers up.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:46 AM ^
September 5th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^
You are full of sausage
September 6th, 2010 at 12:03 AM ^
Is that a bad thing?
September 6th, 2010 at 12:12 AM ^
That depends on how it got there.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:20 AM ^
Well, I would assume a knife and a fork. Spoons and sausages dosn't seem like they would work well together.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
Knife and fork = not a bad thing.
All other ways = BAD.
September 5th, 2010 at 11:59 PM ^
Your phone is a dirty liar.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:04 AM ^
This link works, thanks.
I've got to wonder about their "sources"...
September 6th, 2010 at 12:09 AM ^
September 6th, 2010 at 12:04 AM ^
I hope that Tate can pull it together and stay. He will be a part of something special if he does. If not this is the ultimate Sports Illustrated cover jinx
September 6th, 2010 at 12:05 AM ^
As early as tomorrow...or as late as never.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:25 AM ^
I am sorry, but that woman should not be doing sports reporting. As a self-appointed representative of the sports obsessed male pigs in this world a female sports reporter is required to be hot and she just aint cutting it. The crap flowing from her mouth I found rather distasteful also. Go interview some of the Sparty players in the pokey for some interesting stories about soap, sharpened toothbrushes and male bonding.
I think she was reading the story from the teleprompter being operated by some guy wearing a sweatervest sipping a wine cooler.
September 6th, 2010 at 8:58 AM ^
The initial rumor can't be trusted because it's from a woman who looks good in a bikini and now this one's unacceptable because the woman's not attractive. That's logical.
September 6th, 2010 at 9:43 AM ^
Yes it is from the pig headed armchair QB angle I was trying to create. It, like nearly everything I ever post, was in jest to get a reaction.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:07 AM ^
Here is the clip:
September 6th, 2010 at 12:10 AM ^
As far as I can tell, the original poster did nothing but state what he heard on a news program that is known in the Detroit area and <em>could</em> have some credibility. Let's not bash him for doing this; even if we don't like the reported story.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
Agreed. He's just telling us what he heard. And it's from an arguably major source, being one of the flagship metro area news stations. I still think it sounds sketchy; they sure didn't go into detail on it.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:11 AM ^
All this rumor and internet bs seriously makes it hard to trust anything anymore. I don't like it.
September 6th, 2010 at 3:22 AM ^
More like television BS at this point, since there is proof of what was said on the show. Either way, Tate's decision could change overnight so no one really "knows".
September 6th, 2010 at 12:13 AM ^
If a got a dime everytime i heard Tate was transferring i could create my own Crap Spewing Rumor Network, or CSRN.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
Where there's smoke, there's usually fire...
September 6th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
uh-oh. magnus, do you know something?
September 6th, 2010 at 12:20 AM ^
No, Magnus doesn't know anything more than the rest of us ... or Rob Parker.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:26 AM ^
I will give you half my MGoPoints--or sweet talk Geaux_Blue into granting you the equivalent of it--if you start a DONT PANIC OUR THIRD STRING QB IS LEAVING thread.
Just for old times sakes.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:38 AM ^
That's . . . not a bad idea.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:31 AM ^
Melanie Collins.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:23 AM ^
Well she is smoking hot.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:20 AM ^
After Tate's performace on Saturday, I would not be surprised if he transfered. Once you start getting all wrapped up in your own self-pity, it can lead to all kinds of ill thought out decisions...
September 6th, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
Sports Final Edition is coming on in 5 minutes. Better get my camera out and start recording the TV. lmao
September 6th, 2010 at 12:18 AM ^
They auto-record the channel you're watching. Hit rewind and presto. No advance planning required. It's 2010, not 1988.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:21 AM ^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZViRBV-Ews
The video everyone's referencing is recorded with a camera.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:25 AM ^
1. Pick up iPhone and get ready to record; 2: Rewind DVR; 3: Push play on DVR; 4: Push record on iPhone; 5: Upload to Youtube from iPhone; 6: Publish link
Welcome to 2010!
September 6th, 2010 at 12:27 AM ^
And... you're missing the joke...
September 6th, 2010 at 12:42 AM ^
Guess you had to be here from the start of this thread. The OP was obviously watching Channel 4 and saw the report. He then posted here (without any video) and was called out on it. My semi-educated guess is that he then rewound his DVR and captured the video on his iPhone so we could all see for ourselves. My apologies for trying to defend the OP a bit.
September 6th, 2010 at 1:47 AM ^
You're absolutely correct. Now that it's 2010, I need to rethink this whole mgovideo thing. I don't even have an iPhone!
September 6th, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
If Tate was sitting for disciplinary reasons he will hang around, if he was sitting because he is the distant third string at this point a transfer would not suprise me at some point in the future. It would be unfortunate for all involved if is does happen...
September 6th, 2010 at 12:20 AM ^
Well, if I have learned one thing from hanging around these parts for a while, its to not outright reject something because it's labeled "a rumor".
September 6th, 2010 at 12:21 AM ^
I admit I know little about this, but since he has started the semester doesn't he have to wait until next semester to transfer anyway? The only benefit I could see for transfering now (or filing papers) is so that he doesn't lose a year of eligibility -- if he were to get playing time later this year. I am also not sure when the clock for sitting out a year begins -- if this year is burned anyway, he'd be better off waiting things out and seeing what happens during the season.
In the interim, I'll take Tom VH and Mr. Fordier's info over a local newshack (see earlier thread about a national sports web-site that ran a similar story until someone linked Tom VH's interview and they rescinded it)
If it turns out to be true - It is a big loss for Michigan AND Tate. To me it would speak volumes for Tate's personality and indicate that maybe he wasn't a good fit for the team despite the physical gifts and years of training. (Of course it is very easy to sit here on the outside looking in and with 20+ years more perspective on life than Tate)
As an resident of the Phoenix area - I can look in the local paper for a story of a QB with great talent that couldn't put things together in terms of leadership and attitude and ended (to date) in failure -- albeit getting paid many millions for that failure.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:41 AM ^
It's probably not the end of drop/add period yet, so, feasibly he could withdraw from U of M and enroll at another school immediately if he's granted release.
If this were to happen though, it'd have to be sooner rather than later.
So bascially this probably happens today or tomorrow, or, he'll be here the rest of the season/semester.
Disclaimer: I don't know what UM's academic calendar looks like, so, drop/add period could be over already.
September 6th, 2010 at 1:49 AM ^
Class hasn't even started yet.
September 6th, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
seriously. until someone of importance with actual people besides fictional sources says that Tate is transferring I'll dismiss this as everyone else should as tumor mongering
September 6th, 2010 at 12:32 AM ^
Tumor mongering sounds pretty bad. There should be a public service announcement about it or something.