Why don't people give Tate his props?

Didn't we just get done with an entire thread with you arguing this point? Now you're doing it again?

He's fast. Good for him. Good for us, since he's at Michigan. We all want him to succeed. He will run better than the 2008 QBs. Still, he's not as fast as Denard Robinson, no matter how many times you post about it.

I don't know what you beating this dead horse about Tate's speed will gain us in evaluating him as the probable 2009 starter.

Why don't we wait until he's actually had a chance to play a little at the D1 level first? At this point, his HS exploits don't mean a lot, other than to indicate potential. Look at the hoopla that surrounded McGuffie's videos... Sam did fine for a freshman, but his performance was a far cry from what a lot of people—myself included—got caught up in assuming he would do right out of the gate. I'm going to reserve props for actual in-game achievement.

Talented athletes like Tate Forcier (and others) are generally faster than opposing players. At the school where I used to work, we had a quarterback who outran a ton of DB's through his four years as a starter. He was 6'4" and 210 pounds.

Now he's a linebacker at an ACC school.

Just because he outran high school DB's doesn't mean he's going to be as successful as Pat White running the ball.

Also, as someone pointed out yesterday, the San Diego area is not exactly a football hotbed. If Robinson outruns the competition, I'd put more stock in that than Forcier outrunning his competition.

The first time you said it, I disagreed.

The second time you said it, I just thought you were crazy.

The third time you said it, I still thought you were crazy.

The fourth time you said it, I thought you were certifiably insane.

The fifth time you said it, I thought you were an elaborate April Fool's Day prank.

The sixth time you said it, I just sat in disbelief that you could keep going on and on about it.

The seventh time you said it, you almost convinced me.

The eighth time you said it, you lost me.

The ninth time you said it, I was busy with something else. Sorry.

The tenth time you said it, I broke my computer while banging my head against it.

The eleventh time you said it, I was at the library because my computer was broken.

The twelfth time you said it, I had my computer back and I was almost convinced.

The thirteenth time you said it, you lost me again, because I had a headache from banging it against the computer earlier.

The fourteenth through twenty-third times, I just stared blankly at the screen.

And now here we are at the twenty-fourth time you've advanced the exact same tired old argument that no one really seems to care about or agree with, except you. And now me. You've got me convinced. Tate is a quarterback.

Get over it. It is just the spring. We just don't know how it will unfold. All we know is that we hope that you are right and Tate brings the program back to power. Robinson will find his way to the field regardless with that speed!