Live updates: Tate Forcier will remain Michigan's starting quarterback, if healthy

It's pretty simple. WE ARE GOING TO RUN THE TABLE. 10-2. Undefeated from 2010 - the King retires.

ok....now im going to rewatch the game....I dont remember him getting hit hard enough for a concussion...but it does explain why he wasnt in the game

RR says that he didn't know about the concussion at the time....so it had nothing to do with Tate being benched.

We are 4-2 with some big games coming up. Six games remaining with 4 of them home. We won't run the table, if you think so, your drinking kool aide. We will surely beat Delaware State and Perdue at home and should beat Il on the road. Which will put us at 7-5. Let's face it, we're still young and we play Wisc away, Penn State and the buckeyes at home. We'll probably lose those games. At least we'll go to a bowl this year, may be the Motor City or whatever they call it but it will be a bowl. It will be interesting to see how Tate handles RR actions from last week, what it does to his confidence and how he responds. Tate will definetly be looking over his shoulder from here on out.

This is basically a by week for michigan, which is fine all teams have them. The only reason Tate would play would be for Ritchy's ego to run up the score. A concussion no matter how minor is serious. Its a brain bruise and needs some time to heal. Sheridan would do fine. It's a chance to build depth at other positions as well. Deleware State is a bad 1-3 team in Div.1 AA. (FCS). Its also a chance to make Slick Rithcy feel good with a big win and show the Walmart Wolves how good of a coach he is.

I still don't believe Denard was the man for the job on that last drive, with 1 1/2 minutes on the clock and no timeouts. His passing ability just isn't there yet. Coach Rod was ticked off at Tate, plain and simple. It had nothing to do with a "slight concussion" which he admitted he didn't know at the time. It just seemed to me that Rodriguez kind of lost his composure a little in the 2nd half of the 4th quarter. It probably didn't cost us the game, but it didn't help Michigan, Tate, or anyone.

I love when Michigan State fans use the term Wal-Mart Wolverines. Look buddy it's a free country and College sports make huge amounts of money off their athletic programs. Do you have to show a college ID to get into Spartan stadium? I know it only hold like 30,000 SPARTANS. It's not Michigan's fault that they have fans that aren't alumni. It's not Michigan's fault that the only fans that State has are people that went to school there. They are a boring team to watch historically and have been at the bottom of the big 10 for the last 20 years. Even in the national title run you pretend you had last year you lost 3 games by more then 30 points. Enjoy your 2 wins for the first time in your lifetime and get ready to go back to the way it has always been. Michigan football will be a national powerhouse once again.

RR does need to control his emotions, the players will lose confidence in him if he can't handle the pressure and loses control during games like he did last week. That is what cost him the National Championship at WV, he couldn't handle the pressure against Pitt when the game was closer than he expected.

Michigan will be fine, we are essentially 2 plays from being 6-0. To the State fans, you are a joke, if you went 1-11 and beat Michigan you would consider it a good season. Truth is Michigan just doesn't care about your game as much as we do ND and OSU. Michigan would have alot more alumni fans too if you needed a 1.5 GPA to get in there, like State. Go Blue, next year will be huge and the rest of the Big 10 knows it.

It is a well known thing in college football that upsets start happening in the 5th-6th weeks of the season, and that players, particularly the young players, just start to fade. I posted this a few weeks ago. I expected Tate, and all the other frosh to start to do the same, and I see that happening. Adding to the normal tired-ness (school midterms, 2 1/2 mos of intense practice and lifting, grind of season) is that in RR's offense, the QB tends to get a beating because so much of the offense flows through the QB--i.e. runs, etc. I think Tate will not be the same for the rest of the year because of these factors. I would expect next year the same to happen to Gardner and that TF and laces to be better conditioned and used to the grind.

That is one of the reasons that teams begin to lose games they shouldn't in early October.

I do find it interesting that in the first half, TF was doing things he was obviously coached to do to protect himself--diving in the middle of the field to avoid being tackled; running out of bounds, etc. I also think in his case, the adverse weather conditions will be a downfall because he is not used to playing at game speed in such conditions. Practice last year does not count because it's not 3-4 hrs of intensity, loud crowd, fast. This is not a criticism of RR per se, just the nature of the beast. I'm glad to see RR and QB coach coaching TF up to avoid the big hit. But the nature of RR's offense is for the QB to take off and get hit.

RichRod made the correct QB call except he probably should have gone to Denard sooner. Tate can't pull every game out of the fire in the final minute (remember MSU in OT?). He wasn't on his game and could easily have had a couple of more picks.
It was a tough loss, but not unexpected and it could have been a big win. I am feeling very good about this team, much like the BB team of last year.

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You are right. It did look like RR lost his composure. My brother pointed that out during the game, but I really didn't catch it unitl i saw the clips again on tv. even the few they showed it looked like RR was more emotional than usual. Maybe on some level he realized his team was playing over it's head and that Iowa was not as good as everyone anticipate. He might of thought this is one we can steal. And that's when you start pressing more than you should. RR is a good coach and will get the team going again. It's a good week to get "healthy" since Deleware St. doesn't look to be much of a challenge. But I can see good things coming for this team in the weeks to come. They should win 3 of their next 4 and beating Penn State doesn't feel impossible anymore. Who knows, 8-2 heading into Wisconsin??? I'd be happy with 7-3. Wisconsin and OSU will be tough to beat this year..

We could have won that game, I think that is the emotion RR displayed that everyone is mentioning. Also, I do believe there are Walmart Sparties, where else could you get a couch you were only going to burn that cheap?

You cannot be a little drunk or have a little concussion per RR.
Six games into his career Tater has a concussion and the way he likes to run this could be trouble if not this year but if the
future.

Like I said in an earlier post, being a photographer on the field I saw Tate get smoked by a pair of Iowa lineman on his last play from scrimmage. He got up wobbly and I knew he was done. I don't know what TV showed, but from the field he looked like a confused prize fighter, much like Sam McGuffie did last year after he got flattened a few times by Big Ten lineman halfway through the season. Sitting him was the right thing to do. Take a look at the pictures of Tate on the bench from my photo gallery at the end of the game. Glazed over! I'm not surprised to hear he had a concussion. Forget about football for a minute. Whether they meant to or not, the decision not to play him was the right one.

pcar....but the flip side to your point is you are also just a couple plays from being 2-4. But as a college football fan it is fun to watch michigan's competitiveness. I think the defense really blows and that Obi Ezeh has been overhyed for the past 3 years. Still looks like he did as a freshman out there

Lon, just to clarify: Rich said today that he didn't know about Tate's concussion at the time he made the decision to remove him from the game. His decision was purely based on performance.

It was stated: "I love when Michigan State fans use the term Wal-Mart Wolverines."
Actually, like a blind squirrel finding an acorn, they did get it right: sorta. I have decided to borrow their term to use for any bandwagon-jumping Wolverine "fan" who was whining about RR's coaching decisions on Saturday night instead of enjoying a performance that shows that UM can play with anyone in the Big Ten by simply eliminating a few mistakes.

Treetown,
I love it!