There are...
...days until Tate Forcier and Jonas Mouton watch Harbaugh & Co. smash the Rainbow Warriors.
Tate started for Michigan in 2009 and had a pretty solid season overall for being on a 5-7 team. He is likely most remembered for the game shown in the picture above, which was a thrilling victory over Notre Dame. Tate lost the starting job to one Mr. Denard Robinson in 2010 and the rest, as they say, is history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Forcier
Jonas was a freshman in 2006 (red shirted that year) and made his Michigan debut in 2007 against Notre Dame (we won that game 38-0). His first start was against Miami University in 2008. I feel that Jonas was an overall good linebacker. He was drafted in 2011 by the Chargers. He was placed on injured reserve that season. Jonas then tore his ACL in July of 2013 and missed that entire season. He was waived in 2014.
IIRC, around the second game of the 2009 season was the last time Tate attended class. He had a bit of Manziel-itis.
I was at the Forcier game damn was he exciting. My dad and I walked out of the Big House thinking we just saw the turning point of the RR era.
why not one of the following three: Gordie Bell, John Wangler, or Jabrill Peppers?
Or better yet, the OP could have shown Rob Renes, one of many stout defenders on the National Championship '97 team.
I assume Peppers is being saved for five days to go. The rest I don't know.
Everyone knows Jabrill; he is the easy pick for 5. Also, I have never heard of Wangler and Bell. I started watching Michigan football in 1991. Rob was great, too.
Or how about this? I can choose whomever I want. No one is stopping you from creating one of these threads. There are still 50-57 days left for these threads, so by all means, make one.
Your post... you can choose.
But you should google "Wangler to Carter" to solidify your fan card.
Go Blue
LOL, I don't need to solidify anything. I'm a die hard fan. I'm also sorry for not knowing every player to run onto that field, especially a guy who played before I was even born. I have seen that play to Carter a thousand times, but don't recall the quarterback's name. Again...sorry.
You've never heard of John Wangler??
"Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another hundred years of Michigan football is played!"
By the time Carter crossed the goal line, I was 10 yards onto the field. The band personnel sitting on the field couldn't see past the team and crept out further and further. That was my spine-chilling moment for a long time until Robinson to Gallon, followed a play later, Robinson to Roundtree.
Wangler was BO's first great passing quarterback. He was the first in a line of great UM passing quarterbacks.
Wangler, Harbaugh, Grbac, Collins, Brady, Henson, Griese, Navarre, Henne.
Am I the only one who loves seeing those old scoreboads? I'm not saying they shouldn't have been replaced, but they just feel right to me whenever I see an old clip like this.
I thought I was the human torpedo!
for 61 days.
As for the name Wangler, in case you still need to replenish your Michigan Fan Card, John now has 2 sons playing football for Michigan: Jack and Jared. Not only that, but John's daughter Halle played a couple of seasons on Michigan's Women's basketball team.
Cool. I am glad this offspring play for Michigan. I hope they do well. I guess all people with the surname Smith are related, too.
Idk if it was Manziel-itis, I think Tate just wasn't very bright at all.
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I agree. I also think he felt entitled after his freshman year. Tate could not take the fact that Denard was better than he.
Agreed. I often spotted Tate listening to his iPod/iPhone during games (a bit of a screwball on the sideline). It just didn't seem like he was all there or all that serious about football.
I want to avoid badmouthing people too much, but I will say this - I briefly met Tate and his family at a Michigan bar the year before he started out here in San Diego, and "Manziel-esque" is not an inaccurate description. Also, a friend of mine from high school works at a limo/party bus service back in Ann Arbor, and once mentioned Tate had a standing friday night order (I hope/assume in the off season).
Could have been a really special player if he could have kept his head on straight. Really a shame. But on second thought...who gives a fat shit! HARBAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This should be redone with Rob Renes as to get rid of the Forcier part of this. Would rather not be reminded of those years.
Those years existed! And they stand as a monument to coaching hires - you screw it up, well, your program is toast. As distasteful as they are, we need to remember, lest we forget and allow history to repeat itself.
"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
-- Winston Churchill
Still, there comes a point...
Didn't Brandon Herron wear 58 on Tate's team and take a pic or fumble to the crib? That's just one better use than Tate Farce-ier.
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to the crib? is it 2002?