Tate Forcier is BACK in football
A friend sent me something and said Tate is playing football again. Apparently, he is playing for the Los Angeles Marauders of the PS-AFL.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=735265743178791
(LOS ANGELES) -- The Los Angeles Marauders have activated former University of Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier for Sunday's Professional Spring American Football League game against the SoCal Coyotes in Palm Springs.
The Marauders lost starting quarterback Kyle Parrish due to injuries from last week's 34-6 opening day. Forcier joins Kadell Washington (San Jose State) as the two active quarterbacks on the Marauder roster.
Forcier completed 165 of 281 (58.7) for 2,050 yards, 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions during his tenure at Michigan. He rushed 118 times for 240 yards.
Forcier appeared briefly with the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Parrish finished last week's game, but was sacked six times by a devastating Coyote defense that gave up only 169 total yards.
-GM Sam Maggio
Looks like Tate Forcier is playing football again. This time with the LA Marauders of the PS-AFL, a semi-pro spring football league.
— Joshua Henschke (@JoshuaHenschke) May 23, 2014Good for him. Hopefully he's turned his life around some. Good luck to the guy!
...but it looks like they've already played a game.
http://ps-afl.com/ps-afl/socal-coyotes-34-6-over-the-la-marauders/
Ed: Never mind, should have read the article in the o.p. This was the game mentioned there.
Looks like there's a game today if his facebook is right.
Your original title was more informative.
/tatersgonnatate
/useewhatIdidthere?
Wasn't dramatic enough.
Well, I was joking, but since you brought it up: Since when do message board thread titles need to be dramatic? Are you joking?
I'l take informative over "dramatic" any day.
Tate will always be ok with me and if I ever get the chance I will buy him a drink.
smoke a doob...
Yep, I'm not about to buy a drink for a guy that flouted his responsibilities as a student athlete and made a mockery to his scholarship.
Fun football player, but clearly didn't care enough about the team to, you know, go to class. Maybe he's matured and learned and regrets all that. In fact, I hope and expect he has. But I'm personally not in the business of holding on a pedastal solely the ability to play football.
Don't go to class. Most watch lectures online nowadays. Just a heads up. Going to class will become a thing of the past in a lot of disciplines i believe
Cool story, bro.
But nice job missing the point.
Yes. Staying home studying is much more efficient than going to class to watch someone reading stuff to you off a power point at a really slow pace. If anything, most med schools record lectures and a lot of students just watch them home at 1.5x-2x speed.
Can you see Texas from up on your high horse?
The drive against Sparty in an absolute downpour to send the game to OT was the best for me.
I always thought RichRod should have went for two there...
we were lucky to get back in the game, we had all the momentum... and we were getting two so we would have covered either way...
jdon
I think he would have but for the fact that we were out of timeouts and Tate was totally gassed. I would have actually taken the delay of game to let him rest. He was on fire and I would have been ok with one shot to cover 8 yards for the win.
yep the dude played hard for um and deserves his props - unfortunately for him denard was truly special athlete and then gardner jumped on board so arguably the 2 most dynamic dual threat QBs ever at um were pushing him on depth chart. people might argue otherwise but forcier played pretty darn well as true freshman especially considering the state of the program and limited talent in spots
IIRC Gardner hardly ever played while Tate was at UM. If Tate hadn't had maturity issues (including getting passing grades) and worked harder at being THE QB he may have stayed ahead of Denard.
His performance in the triple OT win against Illinois, after Denard went out , was one of the best games by a QB ever.
One of the best games I've ever been to. I don't care if neither team was very good that year. The atmosphere of that game was awesome.
I'm glad he has an opportunity to play again and hope that this leads to something positive for him.
I don't think we had heard from Tate in a while, so it is nice to see that he is still trying to find a spot for himself in football. I tried to find a roster for the the Marauders, but their site seems to be only just now getting off the ground - I couldn't find a formal schedule either. Hopefully, this leads to some stability and even advancement in the sport for Forcier.
I doubt that there are formal schedules to be had. In January they were opening in April with a three-team league; in April they were opening in May with a four-team league. It all looks pretty fluid.
But what they do have is a place to sign up, if anybody wants to play football with (or against) Tate:
So, he's playing behind a sack-prone OL again. Some things never change.
Wasn't one of Tate's "mentors" Marv Marinovich? Doomed from the start.
Yeeek.
is the father who really never seemed to believe his kids were anything but the best in the state and that their h.s. prowess would be repeated at the highest level. We were warned of this by a former M player who's son ended up as a walk-on at USC. When kids believe they are entitled, they do generally underperform because the bar has been set at a unrealistic height. ^Just my hope the kid does well because, let's face it, he is a hell of a talent that when given proper time can pick the hell out of a defense.
Wow, what do you do with your hype website when there is no longer any hype? Compare this website to what it looked like four or five years ago.
Hundreds of kids must go through this every year. You go from everyone hanging on your every word in high school to just another small voice in the Twitter universe.
There's a story here to be told.
win the Heisman Trophy. What a failure. Every freshman 5 star gains a thousand yards the first year behind a young offensive line run under a bad scheme.
Maybe we should wait a little while before insinuating failure?
No where did I suggest Green had failed or that he was ever going to fail. I insinuated that Grady had in fact been a huge disappointment and then mentioned that I did not want to see Green suffer a similar fate. If that's how you took, that's not how I had intended it to sound. I thought Grady would pan out, but in large part due to a slew of bad fortune, injury, coaching changes, position changes, and seemingly always being in and out of the coach(s) doghouse he subsequently underperformed throughout his career.
of insinuate. You flat out stated that Grady had been a huge disappointment. That wasn't an insinuation. The insinuation was that Green would fail too bacuase of his similiarites with Grady.
He undoubtably had major off the field issues, (first big nams guy I remember getting a DUI, amongst other issues) but he seemed to struggle on the field as well. He had weight issues, lacked that first explosive step you'd like to see from a HB, and to top it off he often struggled in pass protection even as a upperclassman.
I'm making plenty of generalizations here because it would take more than a hot minute to list all the similarities but I guess the erie part for me is that Grady seemed to struggle with many of the same elements a few Michigan RBs have struggled with since the days of Mike Hart.
I was simply stating that I hope our current RBs, particularly Green, finish their career on a much more positive note. Grady was a success in the sense he toughed it out despite all the obstacles. Others would have gave up or transferred. Unfortunately, on the field he probably did not live up to his billing. It happens. Just expected more, probably unfairly.
"...to struggle with many of the same elements a few Michigan RBs have struggled with since the days of Mike Hart."
You mean the inability to elude multiple defenders in the backfield?
Not judgeing Kevin Grady but he had serious off the field issues that were a major hinderance to him reaching his potential. Would have been nice to see him healthy and with a clear head.
I'm not worried at all about a freshman RB not setting the world on fire when he was behind the world's worst OL. I'm not sure why people are so worried about Derrick Green. He had some good runs in the NW and Ohio games. Most of the time he was swallowed up 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage as was all the other RBs.
a 1000 times yes. Green showed enought promise for me considering the o-line issues last year. He broke some pretty impressive runs and showed lots of heart. Overall, he did just fine. Watch out for him this year.
Hope he does well!!
The huge difference is their work ethic.
He was a highly rated player out of high school and ended up as the 4th/5th option on a National Championship runner up and the 1st option on an Elite Eight team.
I'm sure it wasn't your intent, but sometimes, I think we underestimated Stauskas' game coming into Michigan. He was already pretty doggone good, Coach B and his staff turned him into B1G POY.
I think since football recruiting is so much more analyzed compared to basketball, we sort of miss how successful our recruits have been lately. Nik was #71 coming out of high school, now he's projected as a top 15 pick even with international players considered. Heeffectively made a 60 spot leap and we need to remember that that means there's 40-50 guys in there who will never sniff the NBA.
Same goes for Burke, THJ, and Darius. All drafted way above what their HS ranking indicated they should be. They've all suceeded in ways their similarly-ranked classmates have not. It's awesome to have a program that's consistently developing players