Tate living with Jason
I was reading Doc. Saturday and in this article he linked here which says that Tate will be living with his brother this year.
I'm quite glad for this since it should help keep Tate out of trouble and away from any bad influences.
I believe that it's a rule that football players must live in the dorms their first two years so unless I'm wrong or Tate got a special exception, Jason will be living in the dorms (almost certainly South Quad) this year too. He must really want his brother to succeed to put up with that life again.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:48 AM ^
Are you sure it's south quad? Not that I really know one way or the other, but most football players I knew lived in west quad.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:53 AM ^
I generally thought of football players living in South Quad but I was in Markley so I wasn't going to have a ton of interaction with them either way. Maybe it's West Quad. Anybody want to clear this up?
August 19th, 2009 at 11:33 AM ^
most fb players live in wq. I was in 3rd Rumsey. The reason Tate doesnt have to live in the dorms again is because he was somewhat boisterous and played loud music a lot. He never did anything too serious but he was enough of a headache to warrant an off campus living situation.
I hope his loudness translates well onto the football field haha. he would always call me nedorino real loud. (My name is Ned)
August 19th, 2009 at 11:43 AM ^
What a punk!
Haha, jk. Thats funny though.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:14 PM ^
I was on 3rd Rumsey way back in '92 - '93, and back then South Quad was home to most athletes. WQ had hockey, field hockey, track, and athletes from other sports, but a great majority of the athletes stayed in SQ. Pick-up basketball games at SQ were amazing.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:26 PM ^
He must be a Rob Schneider fan.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:27 PM ^
Makin' copies!
December 9th, 2009 at 11:22 PM ^
I was unaware of Tate's creative side.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:48 PM ^
Scholarship football players are always in West Quad. They sometimes put walk ons in South Quad, but that is it. The only exceptions i knew of were Mark Moundros(who earned a scholarship) and Mike Williams(who injured his knee and couldn't climb the WQuad stairs for a while.
also darryl stonum was in SQuad when he enrolled early.
All those guys lived in my hall a couple years ago in SQ, along with Mgoblog favorites such as jimmy potempa and zach johnson.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:31 PM ^
Dhani Jones lived in East Quad. He wanted to go the Residential College and that meant living there.
August 19th, 2009 at 2:08 PM ^
West Quad is the best quad.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:07 AM ^
They live in both.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:55 AM ^
West Quad is home to the big sports and South Quad is home to the honors students and other sports (swimming, diving, wrestling, etc).
(Which is also generally why West Quad wins the SQ/WQ snowball fight)
August 19th, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^
Interesting - I lived in Rumsey during the 89-90 and 90-91 school years. During that time, almost all of the scholarship football players lived in South Quad and most or the hockey players, swimmers, and gymnasts all lived in West Quad. There were only a couple of walk-on football players that lived in WQ.
August 19th, 2009 at 2:19 PM ^
they have typewriter labs in the dorm's back then?
August 19th, 2009 at 12:21 PM ^
But I know for sure some girls swimmers live in WQ. Mario Manningham lived in 3rd Adams (I'm pretty sure) in WQ when I was a freshman. I also knew some of the baseball team in WQ and golf.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:32 PM ^
... we got pummeled in the snow ball fight... this was back in 94-95. There were equal number of athletes in both dorms, but 50% of South Quad faces the field of battle whereas only 10% of WQ does. At first, we were winning... baseball pitchers are good for snowball fights... but people just kept pouring out of SQ and overwhelmed us. The next day, half my WQ friends didn't even know it occurred... good times.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:55 AM ^
I smell a sitcom
August 19th, 2009 at 12:14 PM ^
Ve'y Nice!
August 19th, 2009 at 12:55 PM ^
before the amateur video for the pilot of that sitcom begins surfacing, shot from shadows and bushes outside their room.
Mahorn, I'm looking at you.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:31 PM ^
That reminded me of this:
It should start at the correct spot (1 minute 51 seconds).
August 19th, 2009 at 10:57 AM ^
If Tate wants he can live outside of the dorm but still keep his 'dorm status'. A lot of the guys on the team have done this.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:03 AM ^
if tate wants he can live forever, and call down fire from the heavens to smite the... ahem.. i'm sorry - i blacked out there for a second.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:08 AM ^
The last time we had a freshman qb living with someone that old, fires were started. Too soon?
August 19th, 2009 at 11:26 AM ^
Tate will be heavily scrutinized this year, and have more pressure on him than any high school kid can be fully prepared for. Having a family member close by will hopefully allow him to deal better than someone who has moved away fro his entire support system into a new situation. Also, it will be a popular stop for the ladies.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:40 AM ^
Good for role modeling.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:42 AM ^
It makes me kind of feel sorry for Tate. I wonder if he's been so football, football, football and preparing to be a big time QB his whole life that his family worries that he can't handle living on his own at college like thousands of other freshman do every year. Yeah, I know the pressure of being Michigan's starting QB is exactly NOT what thousands of other freshman deal with, but let the kid live a little.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:02 PM ^
but I don't think he's had any problems living a little, at least so far.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:07 PM ^
I think it depends on his relationship with his brother. I lived with two of my older brothers (twins) for a year in college. There was no substitute-parenting going on, just partying.
The best part about living with brothers is that there is no roommate soap opera. You can say what you want and beat the crap out of each other, and you're still related the next day.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:40 AM ^
I saw him at Ricks a couple times in the spring, so he clearly knows where to go to have a good time.
UPDATE: That isn't a joke. I guess it could have been another 5'11" kid that looked exactly like Tate, wearing all Michigan gear, walking around without a drink in his hand.
Guess people around here aren't Rick's fans. How can you not love sharkbowls?
August 20th, 2009 at 11:13 AM ^
sharkbowls are cool but Rick's is a huge bro fest
August 19th, 2009 at 12:28 PM ^
hahah yeah i heard some stories from some guys at dke, trust me, hes living it up a little.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:21 PM ^
Not if he was going to Deke...
August 20th, 2009 at 12:38 AM ^
Back in the day, football players lived in South Quad.....Kolesar, Jokish, Demetius Brown, Veda, McMurtry etc. lived in South Quad with a lot of walk-ons and earned scholarships. Hoop players Terry Mills, Rumeal, Mark Hughes, Gary Grant etc lived in West Quad. Baseball Players Jimmy Abbott & Company lived in West Quad.
Also, there were some wild all-campus Open parties at DKE.....like the Satta Party. Seemed like Sigma Chi, DKE, ATO, Delts, Phi Delts, and Sig Eps had the best Open parties.
(Note Prefaced with "Back in the Day")
August 20th, 2009 at 2:42 AM ^
you're making me feel old. "Back in the day" was when I went to Michigan. Ah, hell, it was only 15 years ago. I'm not THAT old right? RIGHT?!
August 20th, 2009 at 7:19 AM ^
I don't know. As the years pass, I do not seem to recognize the guy in the Drivers License photo.
August 20th, 2009 at 2:16 PM ^
That was actually 20+ years ago. (I can't believe it either.)
December 9th, 2009 at 3:11 PM ^
Back in the day (!)('86-'90) I remember living in the DKE house and the amazing Satta parties. That band was a tight, smooth reggae juggernaut that was the highlight party for us every year. Wish I could get a copy of the Satta tapes that were sold at the parties. Thanks for the blog and bringing back sweet memories of A2 and my youth.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:22 PM ^
yeah, I feel bad for Tate too. I'd hate to be the QB of Michigan.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:00 PM ^
actually attend UM for grad school? I know he wont play, but will he pursue a degree? I have not seen any updates indicating what was next for him.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^
not accepted to the M grad program, although I have no idea why he would be rejected.
Can anyone confirm? Also, what grad program was he applying to?
August 19th, 2009 at 12:16 PM ^
I was under the impression that the NCAA got in the way of this, not M admissions.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:21 PM ^
I forget where I read it, but the NCAA wouldn't give him eligibility if he couldn't pick a grad program at Michigan that wasn't offered at his previous school. He couldn't find one that made sense, so no eligibility.
EDIT: Linked. This is the second link in the original post.
August 19th, 2009 at 7:39 PM ^
TomVH just tweeted this:
RT @QBForce It's true...Jason will not be attending Grad School at Michign but will remain in Ann Arbor for several weeks, maybe longer.
I guess this is why he said they'd live together a portion of the season instead of the whole year.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:00 PM ^
i generally thought that you were required to live in the dorms too as a freshmen, but a friends brother will be a freshman this year and he managed to get out of housing to live in phi alpha kappa right away. i don't know how
August 19th, 2009 at 1:12 PM ^
Living in the dorms isn't required, but it's guaranteed for all freshmen. And upon looking this up, Phi Alpha Kappa is a Christian fraternity at Michigan (and not part of the IFC), so that is probably legit.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:23 PM ^
A friends girlfriends little brother (yeah I know whatever) lived in our house his freshman year. It's a common misconception that you have to live in the dorms it's just because >95% of freshman do. But it is not required.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:14 PM ^
The University, in a campaign waged by E. Royster Harper circa 2004, attempted to implement a policy that freshmen not be permitted to join any student organization during the first year of their enrollment.
Strong speculation suggested the effort was intended to prevent freshmen from joining fraternities and sororities during their freshman year, which in turn would effectively require freshmen to sign leases elsewhere for their sophomore years (including North Quad, an expensive project with impending revenue problems).
In any event the effort failed, but this is the closest I've heard the University coming to a live-in requirement.