“Miami had the best opportunity,” Forcier told ESPN. “There is so much positive energy around this program and I really want to be apart of it. I love these coaches an feel like they are the right guys for me. I had a great visit and I really want to be a part of the rebirth at Miami.”
Forcier chose UM after considering Arizona, Kansas State, Washington and Montana. He will enroll at Miami in June for the summer semester and will redshirt the 2011 season, with two years of eligibility remaining.
Forcier was a 2009 graduate of Scripps Ranch in San Diego – a four-star recruit and ranked the fifteenth-best quarterback in the nation. Arm strength, accuracy / consistency and running ability / mobility were considered his strengths, with size being the only knock. At six foot and 183 pounds, Forcier doesn’t possess prototypical quarterback height.
Miami was in the running for Dwyer’s Jacoby Brissett until last Friday, when the local produt chose Florida over Miami, Washington and Wisconsin. Brissett wasn’t in ESPN’s Top 150, but was listed a four-star talent by Scout.
Hurricane Faithful were disappointed by the last minute change of heart by Brissett, but ESPN’s Heather Dinich summed up the situation perfectly:
While the Hurricanes likely will end this class without a quarterback, leaving one experienced signal-caller on the roster in 2012, it doesn’t mean they won’t sign one — a good one — in the next class.
Look at it this way: There is a wide-open spot for one of the best quarterbacks in the country in 2012, and Golden and his staff can recruit that player while honestly assuring him of immediate playing time. It also leaves open the possibility a top transfer like Michigan’s Tate Forcier or Rutgers’ Tom Savage can join the team and provide immediate help and depth.
Miami will sign a quarterback in 2012, and there’s a good possibility he’ll be even better than Brissett.
To Dinich’s point, Miami landed a ‘top transfer’ like Forcier and the door is open for Al Golden and staff to spend the next year scouring the nation for the best quarterbacks in the class of 2012.
Until then, it’s all about Stephen Morris and Jacory Harris – who is said to be experiencing a “sense of renewal” due to the new coaching staff.
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Don't want this kid. Couldn't clear academics at Michigan, how is he gonna play here? Also he has a bad attitude and is a prototypical spread quarterback. Not suited at all for the system Fisch wants. If he can be a man and take his backup role, he'll be a serviceable number 2.
Miami has no wow factor!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will be lucky to win 5 games. I hope Morris makes the grades and stay healthy. #12 is interception machine and as well Tate. Tate 5-7 10 inreceptions in slow big ten.
Now I hear we are looking at a baseball player? Who that?
Michigan's a pretty good school, so i'm not very concerned with academics. It's the football and teammate aspects that worry me. Forcier better not feel entitled to anything.
Look I live about an hour from Ann Arbor so all I hear is Wolverine Crap. I liked watching this kid play for Michigan. He is a gunslinger with no problem throwing terrible passes into triple coverage. When the team is Michigan I could care less, it is fun to watch him run around like crazy and chuck it everywhere. That said I hope he never takes the field for Miami, we already have a interception machine.
I'm a graduate of the U, I now go to grad school at Michigan. I watched Tate play at the Big House. We'll see if he has what it takes to play at the U. I'm not convinced he's on the U level. I hope I'm wrong.
Go Canes.
One more thing; What's the deal with the recruiting class? Zach Witchett and Aubrey Coleman are both still undeclared, in the top 150, athletes, and considering Western Kentucky and Washington...Is Golden "satisfied" when we can do better?
Mark my words as a true Canes fan, Miami will again rise as a national power. Might take 2 years at the latest, but you can bet miami will be a household name in the top ten, year in and out after 2012. The fencing in of South Florida is key, MIAMI IS SOUTH FLORIDA!!! Golden will tell the tale, recruits better hop aboard now...we're close to grabbing a 6th title...
My 4 year old son wants to be a hurricane, he wants to play safety, so miami's got a verbal commitment from way up in Syracuse, New York in 2025...lol. Guess who his 2 favorite players are? Reed and Buchannon...Go fiqure right. I told him he should aim for Tremain Mack first...
He may be not who everyone wanted but he put up decent #'s as a Freshman. He will have a year to change his attitude toward school and work on the field. If not from what I have seen from the new Staff he will be gone! If he improves in those's area's he will provide much needed competition for Morris and who ever the Freshman QB is an opportunity to learn and possibly redshirt the year. Maybe he is not the the next award winning QB for the U but I believe in the new staff direction .
He's here now, so there's not much to say. I'm in Columbus and have seen him play many times. He's got moxy, but again, he's turnover prone. I will support him and hope he contributes to the program. This transfer does not help the depth for next year however. I would prefer getting a Freshman in the 2012 class over a transfer, but it is what it is.
Columbus Cane