Tate HAS grown
Met with my insurance agent yesterday. Seriously, He is a huge hockey fan and attends more games at Yost and on the road than I have ever gone to the Big House, and I have season tix.
Anyway, he was at the game against Miami and sat one row behind Tate Forcier. He commented on how he was trying to stay under the radar at the game, but once a few people figured out who he was, that was over. The thing he kept saying to me was how huge Forcier looked.
He couldn't believe how much he has bulked up. He said that wiry little freshman from last season is long gone and we won't be seeing him get pummled this year. He went on to say what a nice kid he was, but then started back in on how much bigger he is than he was during football season.
Sounds like we will defintely see a bigger, stronger and most importantly, a more durable Tate on the field this coming season.
Is it Sept. yet?
"Put on 9lbs = Slightly less likely to break in two"
He is a huge hockey fan and attends more games at Yost and on the road than I have ever gone to the Big House, and I have season tix.You know that the hockey season has more games, right?
That's still a lot for a student-athlete.
I think he meant the insurance agent attended a lot of games, not Tate.
I never knew tate as a hockey type
Having never met the kid I have no idea what he's into. That said... Yost is a unique experience as a general campus landmark/sporting locale with a really cool atmosphere. It's something that I think every UM student should experience before they graduate. I'm glad, for his sake, that he still sees passionate M fans during his offseason.
March 25th, 2010 at 10:02 AM ^
I've seen Tate or been told by friends that they've seen Tate at several hockey games (both UofM and Red Wings).
When the Kings were in town he was hanging around outside their locker room after the game. Turns out he is pretty tight with a couple younger Kings players that are from SoCal. I'm assuming there is some sort of uber-athlete fraternity for high school kids out there.
Anyway...Tate was decked out, head to toe, in UofM gear. He actually looked kinda goofy, but as always was nice to the eleventy billion people asking for autographs.
I'm glad you got this info from your insurance salesman and not your urologist or a promiscuous lady friend in the dorms.
If you had ... well ... it could have gotten real weird
Promiscuous lady friends are fairly knowledgeable about this kind of stuff.
Yeah, or the guy selling Tate his steroids.
I think Barwisone is free. Either that or you pay in PAIN.
Mike Barwis' car runs on PAIN.
Is it a Toyota? Because I would NOT want to be in that car when the accelerator sticks.
Mike Barwis v. Chuck Norris - Armageddon?
dude you're a dick for even making the comment.
I think our sarcasm meters are a little broken today.
Isn't sarcasm supposed to be funny?
If tate was taking steroids instead of moaning about a 5-7 season we'd be hoisting the national championship trophy on our backs
I don't really think it works that way there pal.
Way to give rosenberg new ideas for next season. There will be a new headling " Tate on steroids ".
This is already weird, and it would take lot of verbiage to make it not awkward.
Hopefully that helps with his durability next year. No more hurt shoulders I pray.
It would also help if he makes a quicker decision to get rid of the ball when no one is open, and there's nowhere to run. No more holding onto it until he's already being sacked, and then hits the ground with his arm extended. *wince*
um I am not sure if you realize this but he was a frosh last year. I kind of expect to see bad decisions like that from a perosn with that little experience.
Um, yeah, I did know that. I expected things like turnovers, but I thought that hurting his shoulder would have been a big incentive to stop throwing the ball while going down.
Yeah freshman qb's undoubtedly make some bad decisions. I imagine the game moves pretty damn quickly for awhile. Holding onto the ball too long is frustrating to watch but not nearly as cringe worthy as him attempting to scramble swinging the ball around waiting to dribble it onto the turf. Either way I'm sure with his experience and hopefully uninjured line we should see some great things this year. Is it Sept yet???
It's usually easier to make quick decisions when one doesn't have a concussion.
Indeed. If he gets colt mccoyed 2010 national championship style, that'd be some bad news.
I saw him at the NMU game -- I don't think he looked that much bigger.
(I sense I'm walking right into a joke here.)
I.e., your phone? Sorority girls in AA or something else?
Nah, just Google images
Poor kid, you gotta wonder how he is even able to go on. LOL
how much ass do you think he gets?
C'mon, we all know that bulk is nice but doesn't really matter when you can use the Force.
I’m the starting QB for Meeechigan
50% of the time it works all the time
I picture something like this:
I'd say it's a bit higher than 50%.
I didn't notice it until you mentioned it, but he looks noticeably bigger than Denard this year.
Denard is made of dililliput?
Also, the above picture is one of the best things I've seen on MGoBlog. It was totally unexpected and inspired quite the fit of laughter.
"Sounds like we will defintely see a bigger, stronger and most importantly, a more durable Tate on the field this coming season."
We're calling Devin "Tate" now? :)
Just curious.
How in the world does he expect to keep a low profile if he's wearing his varsity jacket around?
I would never have noticed some random dude walking up the stairs if he hadn't been wearing the jacket. Because he was, I was curious to see if I knew who it was, and what do you know, it's Tate (Which about 50 other people figured out at the same time and started yelling about it).
Am I the only one that keeps seeing this thread title and reading it in creepy aunt trying to seduce their nephew voice?
"My, my. You HAVE grown, haven't you?"
You might want skip the next family picnic.
Am I the only one that is looking forward to going to Blazefire's next family picnic??
I do realize there are a lot more hockey games than football games. I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.
For an English major from 1987 you'd think I would have a better grasp of the language. My agent goes to a lot of hockey games and doesn't have season tickets, I believe he knows a lot more about the hockey program than the football program.
Either way, he probably goes to more games than Tate, but the Force gets a lot more ladies than my insurance guy.
The best part of the whole thing is, he owes me a hockey game and if Michigan makes the Frozen Four I will be there!
March 24th, 2010 at 10:59 PM ^
can you pay your insurance bill with Mgopoints?
March 26th, 2010 at 12:12 AM ^
My wife is my insurance agent, and I'm pretty sure she hates Tate because she received no attention for at least 3 hours every Saturday last fall.
And this Xavier-KSU game is nuts. Can't we please get the Wolverines back to the Sweet 16?