OT: UH says no to Forcier
UH says no to Forcier.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/sportsnews/20110720_warriors_end_courtship_of_tate_forcier.html
Apparently, there are still some grade issues among other concerns.
Jesus, they were gonna let him go there, meet his requirements, then play in 2012. This kid seriously needs to get his act together, but I doubt he ever will... Entitlement is a hard thing to shake I guess when you have been told you are the best thing to ever happen to the world your entire life (ask lebron james or TP)
Last month, Forcier contacted the Warriors. Two weeks ago, Forcier and McMackin had a 1-hour telephone conversation during which Forcier was offered an official recruiting trip. A condition of the trip was UH's receipt of Forcier's transcripts.
UH received the transcripts this past Friday.
Ouch.
Well ordering official transcripts from UM does take 2 weeks, but you would think he'd have one or two handy.
Official transcripts are ones sent directly from the University to the other requesting university, job, etc...(except in very rare cases). One which someone can just carry around and have handy for whatever is an unofficial transcript and is about as worthless as walking into a bank to cash a check that the other person didn't sign.
No snark intended here, but do people really still care enough to follow his situation?
I wish Tate well just like I wish all athlete's I've followed well (save Boren and probably a few others)
It's the offseason and I appreciated the update, but his situation is just sad. He's got one of these:
It's approaching trainwreck status: you know how it will end, but you can't look away.
The world was this kid's oyster, and he chose to be immature and squander opportunities. People treat college students like they are still kids, and I find that ridiculous. He's not a kid. He's a grown man and he should act as such.
There are many causes deserving of sympathy. This is not one of them.
I wish him no ill-will and hope he succeeds. But when "hype" is your biggest concern in life, I have trouble feeling sorry for you.
There are now, and were a lot before them, "kids" barely 18 years old serving in the military that have way more resposibility than Tate Forcier had trying to get his team a first down in a game.
I get you. I'm not a religious guy but the phrase "Everyone carries their own cross" comes to mind. It's not easy to go from being the shit on to well a second thought at 18 or 19. It seems like he has some mental health issues as well.
His world turned when he did not prepare himself as well as he should have for the 2010 season. His next turn came when RR declared Denard starting QB, deservingly so, as we all saw him run around defenses. His third turn came when he sat on the bench completely uninterested in that first game. The final straw came at the end of the season when he no longer qualified scholastically.
I, too, wish Tate well. It is he who I will always have engrained in my mind raising his hands with the football as he outran the ND defense and crossed the goal line at the south end of Michigan Stadium in 2009. He was spectacular that day. Without his performance, we would not have won that game.
That said, had Bo been his coach, he wouldn't have made it the rest of the 2010 season the way he sat the bench for game one.
I do hope he gets his college life in order. Only then may he still have a chance at some football. If he can come back from this, he should do well in the real world.
T84CA forever.
He's not a kid. He's a grown man and he should act as such.
Cognitive research argues otherwise. Your frontal lobe (responsible for reflection/foresight) does not reach something approaching full maturity until your mid-20s. However, I can't understand why Forcier's parents are such freaks, trying to live their dreams through their kids.
Are still college kids. We all felt that way. Then in the next ten years, we realize how NOT adult we were, and how good we had it.
He could have really had a lot of fun over there: inferior competition, passing offense, and lots of island girls. Hawaii was made to order for him.
this kid just can't catch a break. However, you have to create your own breaks sometimes and he's just not getting his head right. It's a shame....he can definately compete somwhere.
I'd say he caught a ton of breaks. He got a full ride scholarship to the University of Michigan where he can get a first rate education for free. He also had his helmet wings taken away and then earned them back and got back on the team. I would say that's another break he caught when many coaches could have just said "leave", like when Carr would throw transfer papers at a kid and tell him if he doesn't want to put in the work then he's free to go. I don't pity Tate Forcier. Not one bit.
Except for one thing. If you can't study in Ann Arbor in the winter, how the hell was he ever going to buckle down and study when it's 80 degrees, sunny and the island girls are beckoning to the beach?
Morning + winter + 15 minute walks = missed classes in Ann Arbor
Depends on what or who on the beach you're studying.
Not OT. Proof:
How embarrassing. That's really the best way to describe it.
It's kind of hard for me to feel sorry for the kid. He finds himself in this situation because he couldn't buckle down and put in the work, either athletically or academically. He comes from a decent, well-off family and never experienced hard times growing up, so he really has no excuse. It's true that not every 18 year-old can be expected to make all the right choices all the time, but when the roster is full of great, hard-working kids who are making the most of their opportunity to play football at a Big Ten school while earning a world-class degree, I can't muster much sympathy for those who didn't seem to appreciate their good fortune.
no distractions in Hawaii.
The Forcier family is fucked.
Wow...such a sad saga I really really liked the kid during his time here but at some point the fact that these schools are turning him down is a reflection upon himself as a person, he really needs to hit the JUCO circuit get his shit together and then think about a major college transfer if indeed that is his ultimate goal.
For what it's worth if he DID get his act together I'd take him back on our team in second. I havent forgotten Notre Dame, Indiana or the Illini.
Thanks Tate.
I think I'm holding out for a fourth year academic miracle drive...
Where's the "classy" modification when you need it? Oh well, I hope you don't mind getting an "underrated".
Forcier seemed like a fairly intelligent guy, so he should be able to perform well enough during a year at a JUCO to subsequently satisfy the academic expectations of lots of universities with football programs. If he wants to solve his relatively small problem, he can do it. I wish him the best.
Is overcoming a problem
This is just being your own problem
How is dancing around with head phones "being your own problem"? The problem wasn't Tate having an outside the box personality it was that he didn't go to class. Leave the eccentric people alone!
This is why I don't believe in home schooling.
Good call.
Tim Tebow is a reason I DO believe in home-schooling.
Neither example should be the reason you do or do not do it.
Tim Tebow is the reason I believe in circumcision.
Tim Tebow is a tool. Your argument is invalid.
Oh, so you've met him?
But it he had met him he'd be a better person for the 5 minutes they'd spent together
/Gatorbowl'd
//Also, I definitely love that Stewie is looking up at him and read your question in a Stewie voice in my head
Yeah we circumcised kids together in the Phillippines. Total dick.
It was circumcised?
Just found this quote in an old MGo post, taken from an ESPN article:
On Fridays in the fall, Tate Forcier doesn't feel like going to school. The night's game is on his mind, and the quarterback for Scripps Ranch High in San Diego can't imagine studying a textbook rather than studying a defense. No big deal. "I'll tell my teacher, 'I have a game today,'" Forcier said. "He'll say, 'That's fine; you don't have to come.' And I'll go to my football school and watch film all day."
very telling that this was written when he was in high school...
University of Hawaii: Newest inductee into the Forcier Hall of Shame.
I hope that kid gets his act together and lands someplace. Lay off the weed, go to class, crack a book now and again. That's Feat of Clay's 3-step program for college success.
Then, maybe he can find somewhere to use his last 2 years of eligibility. But, it's NOW or NEVER time for Mr. Forcier. Sink or swim. Grow up or stay a kid the rest of his life.
The kid needs to go to a small school. Division 2 or 3 preferably. The kid needs to get a lot of attention to make sure he doesn't get lost like he clearly did at Michigan.
Remember he was home-schooled because of some academic issues. I think the kid needs to get into an environment where it will be almost impossible for him to get lost.
You can get an awesome education at Michigan but if you want to mess around, there's not much to stop you. That's not quite the same case at smaller schools.
This is way past playing football at a high level. That's done, buddy. Get a good education with a football scholarship and have a nice life.
If I recall, he was home-schooled in the first place because he had messed up his grades in HS badly enough that he wouldn't graduate with his class unless something changed. Clearly, he didn't learn that lesson.
Hopefully, he can turn things around.