QBForce twitter false alarm

Submitted by whyyoumadtho on
Edit: Chris Forcier is starting at furman. Twitter account says "secret revealed soon!" I will update when I hear anything.
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Scott Dreisbach

September 11th, 2010 at 11:44 AM ^

If I am not mistaken, this is the Furman Paladin's first game this season.  I bet it is to announce that Chris Forcier is the starting QB for Furman.  I would be shocked if it was about Tate.

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Bando Calrissian

September 11th, 2010 at 11:47 AM ^

And the Forcier family gets even more attention.

If I'm the Michigan coaching staff, I'm telling these people to cool it on Twitter, shut down the website (or at least the "Hall of Shame), and quit talking to the press  and creating distractions around this team.  Period.  Enough is enough.

I can't recall any family of a Michigan player who created this much hoopla around their kid.  Not even the Hensons.

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Gerald R. Ford

September 11th, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^

(the following may not be popular - neg away if you feel you must)

That whole QBForce site is an embarrassment not only to their family but to the programs in which they are involved.  They obviously do not realize how ridiculous it makes them look.  They are analogous to a "pageant family" in the south.  I don't fault Tate for his attitude issues.  He was raised this way.  I wish there I could like him but winning or losing, he is not a likable guy at this point in his young life.  Kid needs to get some Molk wisdom stat.

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Bando Calrissian

September 11th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^

I don't remember it being this bad with Jason.  Maybe it's because he was never really expected to be the starter at Michigan,  and it seemed all-smiles "sorry it didn't work out, but go make it happen somewhere else" on his way out the door when he transferred.  But with Tate, from day 1, the family has been completely overwhelming.  Heck, even before day 1, when they were posting all of the offer letters he was getting on their ridiculous website.

Typical hover-parents, probably the first ones on the coach's home phone the second he gets home from a game in which Tate didn't get enough playing time when he was growing up.  Anybody who works with young people sees parents like that all the time. It should probably stop, though, when the kid is old enough to vote...

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johnvand

September 11th, 2010 at 12:51 PM ^

I agree, and it also explains to me why Tate was a bit aloof during the off season this year.  He was home schooled and coddled so much by his overbearing/overprotective parents he's just a 19 year old kid getting away from his parents for the first time in his life and letting loose, probably too loose.

Whether or not he gets his starting job back, I hope he pulls it together.  I'd hate to see him spiral out of control like so many other highly protected kids once they get a little independence.

Though, I must say, I'm getting pretty sick of the Forcier family shenanigans. 

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Don

September 11th, 2010 at 1:02 PM ^

Cosign 100%.

When I saw Molk make his comments about avoiding publicity, and how much he likes Denard for having the same attitude, it was obvious who he was also commenting on.

Pageant family — hadn't come across that expression before, but it says everything, doesn't it?

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csam1490

September 11th, 2010 at 12:31 PM ^

They do seem a little odd, but I don't know - I don't have kids. From what I've seen, most parents go crazy when their kid manages to get his poop into the toilet. If my kid started a whole season at QB for U-M, I might be a little unbalanced, too. So I can appreciate the madness, but I agree with you as an outside observer - I'd like everyone to just be cool. Like Fonzie.  

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Brodie

September 11th, 2010 at 1:13 PM ^

Normal people don't hire this guy to personally coach their children:

 

He has never eaten a Big Mac or an Oreo or a Ding Dong. When he went to birthday parties as a kid, he would take his own cake and ice cream to avoid sugar and refined white flour. He would eat homemade catsup, prepared with honey. He did consume beef but not the kind injected with hormones. He ate only unprocessed dairy products. He teethed on frozen kidney. When Todd was one month old, Marv was already working on his son's physical conditioning. He stretched his hamstrings. Pushups were next. Marv invented a game in which Todd would try to lift a medicine ball onto a kitchen counter. Marv also put him on a balance beam. Both activities grew easier when Todd learned to walk. There was a football in Todd's crib from day one. "Not a real NFL ball," says Marv. "That would be sick; it was a stuffed ball."

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mejunglechop

September 11th, 2010 at 11:47 AM ^

I'm not sure which would be a bigger surprise for today: Tate hasn't travelled and has transferred, or Tate is starting.

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