Anyone else think the Forcier family is a bit...I dunno...off? Weird?

The Forcier's care about their children, and can afford them a trainer.  The Forcier brothers are all D1-caliber.  These people are heretics!  WTF?!!!

Weird?  Homeschooled, personal trainer, brothers that played at different schools, a resume "over the top" weird?   

Yeah, you really have to question kids that are homeschooled.  Definite indications of psycopathic tendencies.

This kid is what, 17 years old, and you have gathered all of this info on him and you are questioning his upbringing?  That is not only "weird," its kind of disturbing. 

this was a really stupid post

Sommy, I do not like to come down on posters here.  I think that most people post to provide the MGoBlog community with information and insight and deserve consideration for doing such.

But I really dislike posts disparaging kids for things off the football field and require an awful lot of conjecture, particularly regarding those kids who haven't even graduated high school!  Think the ridiculous Tyrell Pryor and Newsome uproar.

i'm glad Tate is coming to UM, but i must admit qbforce.com did give me douche chills when i viewed back in the spring. creating a website dedicated to how great you are seems a little messed up, but i guess that's how it goes these days. he has changed the content since then and now it's not so bad. also, i am glad that McGuffie hates his mixtape

the number of stupid and pointless diaries and mgoboard threads have shot up expontentially with start of season

please keep topics relevant and somewhat intelligent

has a bad rap, but there are a lot of people doing it these days. lots of reasons:

• class sizes are extreme these days
• schools are underequipped/underfunded
• violence in schools 
• tracking at an early age
• teaching to the test is standard these days
• school should be designed for social interaction. it should be for learning. plenty of districts allowhomeschooled kids to take part in extra-curriculars.
• teachers are questionable qualified in too many cases.

Wow his family is really close and happy to be around each other. That is weird in todays world. They actual want to have fun and spend time doing thing together. Guess they should get with the times and fight all the time and yell at each other?

 Glad to have Tate aboard, it will be great to see him next year.

Also how much time have you actually spent with the Forcier family Sommy? I really hope your not basing your whole opinion on what you read and see on the internet, because that would be pretty weak to say the least.

 And bashing Marinovich for trying to groom his kid into a a QB is just crazy. I mean look at Tiger Woods I'm sure he wishes his dad didn't push him so hard and groom him to be a pro golfer?

is the perfect example of why I will never again read anything on MGoBlog that isn't posted by Brian

Is it possible that each of the boys went to a different school so that one son did not have to sit behind another?  (is that a sign of a fear of competition?!?!?!?!  please note the sarcasm here.) 

Is Marinovich a qualified QB coach in their home town?  If so, this point is irrelevant.

Many people home school their kids for a variety of reasons.  Passing judgement with no data, outside of older siblings going to excellent universities, is baseless.

If he was going to Ohio State, you'd all have this same opinion.

Props to whomever said brought up the thing about the Forcier family being close.  It's true: we are too quick to judge people as being weird for being unusual (duh!).  I'll admit, I am weirded out by homeschooling, but if it works and the kids are brought up to be good people, then do it.  Anyways,

1. It's none of my business (okay I'm sorry, Tim Tebow) 
2. It's nice indeed that the family is so close.

It stands in contrast to the image of the overbearing QB dad in Varsity Blues or Friday Night Lights.  Not like I know the family, but it seems like their family bond and shared hobby.  That's pretty cool I guess.

All of the things that you listed as being "weird" are the things that probably directly attributed to him getting a full ride athletic scholarship to the University of Michigan. I would do all of those things if it got me to that point. This kid is going to get a free education at a top notch university because his parents cared enough to get him prepared.

Having said that. I do think that the Forciers are their own biggest fans, but that doesn't bother me. Nothing wrong with having pride in your family and accomplishments. I can't wait to see this kid wearing the winged helmet!!

I kinda like the vibe the forciers give off. Well, for one, they're obviously michigan fans. Then there's the picture of Jason wearing a 'Worst State Ever Shirt'. The cherry on top was a picture of the three brothers standing in front of Jefferson North Assembly Plant on the east side of Detroit. My first job out of college was a Chrysler, and I used to go to that plant quit a bit for various reasons so it was odd to see a photo of a football recruit standing in front of it. That last point probably isn't cool to anyone but me.

Also, I believe their dad played football in some capacity at SDSU, maybe as a 4th string QB.

You would not believe the number of children who are homeschooled in California - it's in the hundreds of thousands.  That state's public schools are a disaster, thanks in part to a law from the 1970s that keeps property taxes artificially low.  (As in most other states, schools in California are primarily funded by property taxes.)

it works.

if you're trying to increase teen pregnancy