'07 TN WR Golden Tate (Signed LOI to Notre Dame)

GoldenToTheGrave

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If ND would have had any kind of legit defense during his final year, ND prob wins ten plus games and Golden would have won the Heisman, he was the best player in cfb that year.

Ndamukong Suh was the best player, but Golden was certainly up there.
 

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Ndamukong Suh was the best player, but Golden was certainly up there.

Tate was. He carried Clausen and made him look better than he was.

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A niece in Seattle had a son in January that they named Tate. She & her hubster "got" it when I dubbed him "A Golden Tate."
 

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Nick Setta said:
Tate was. He carried Clausen and made him look better than he was.

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The swan dive on the MSU band was awesome, but no selling Taylor Mays' shot on Golden's 2nd TD in 2009 is probably my favorite.

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Tate was. He carried Clausen and made him look better than he was.

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I'll respectfully disagree.
JC might not have panned out in the NFL, but dude was a hell of a college qb. Tate was a straight baller with mad skill, but JC could put the ball any damn where he wanted. They made each other look good.
 

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You can say what you want about Jimmah, but a good portion of those throws are on point lightning strikes. Even the bombs drop only where Tate can get them. The YAC is something special though.
 

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Tate was. He carried Clausen and made him look better than he was.

Like the others, I respectfully disagree. Adamantly so, in fact. I love Tate and think he was a stone-faced killer at Notre Dame, but he wasn't one of the top 5 players in the country, nonetheless THE best player.

Hell, if Dez Bryant would have been able to play in '09, Tate probably wouldn't have sniffed the Belitnekof. Dez's 08' season was significantly better than Tate's '09 season. So I don't think that's a stretch.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of 5 players better in '09 than Tate:

- Tim Tebow
- Ndamukong Suh
- CJ Spiller
- Toby Gerhart
- Mark Ingram
 

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Like the others, I respectfully disagree. Adamantly so, in fact. I love Tate and think he was a stone-faced killer at Notre Dame, but he wasn't one of the top 5 players in the country, nonetheless THE best player.

Hell, if Dez Bryant would have been able to play in '09, Tate probably wouldn't have sniffed the Belitnekof. Dez's 08' season was significantly better than Tate's '09 season. So I don't think that's a stretch.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of 5 players better in '09 than Tate:

- Tim Tebow
- Ndamukong Suh
- CJ Spiller
- Toby Gerhart
- Mark Ingram


Bruce Heggie too.
 
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Not quite sure I understand how Tate is considered a top CFB player from that class. I might have a poor recollection but ..... No... Not seeing it. Certainly not the best player that year.
 

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He finished 10th in Heisman voting on a 6-6 team. I think 9-3 and he would have been invited to NYC at least.
 

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He finished 10th in Heisman voting on a 6-6 team. I think 9-3 and he would have been invited to NYC at least.

He had a nutty big play year, made the play to win a few games, made the play that kept us in others that our defense then lost... Yeah, he was that good, plus he played for ND, if the team was among the best that year... Hed have won the Heisman, not a single doubt in my mind.
 
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Like the others, I respectfully disagree. Adamantly so, in fact. I love Tate and think he was a stone-faced killer at Notre Dame, but he wasn't one of the top 5 players in the country, nonetheless THE best player.

Hell, if Dez Bryant would have been able to play in '09, Tate probably wouldn't have sniffed the Belitnekof. Dez's 08' season was significantly better than Tate's '09 season. So I don't think that's a stretch.

Just off the top of my head, I can think of 5 players better in '09 than Tate:

- Tim Tebow
- Ndamukong Suh
- CJ Spiller
- Toby Gerhart
- Mark Ingram
Colt McCoy won multiple awards that year.
Ryan Matthews
Eric Berry
 

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I'm placing cack and wooly under IE karma arrest... To be accompanied by koon and watched over by allgator... I hope you both like the taste of prison food, ... And penis.
 

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I'm placing cack and wooly under IE karma arrest... To be accompanied by koon and watched over by allgator... I hope you both like the taste of prison food, ... And penis.

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Golden 100% did NOT bang Wilson's wife ..... That's a fact!

And the SEXYYY chick in the video with the cannons, her name is Hope (didn't get the last name yet, sorry haha )
 

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Sheet, Mon. You be scruffy. You be harsh. You don't abide. You don't know pizza shyte 'bout freedom of 'spression.

Let them freak flags fly as long as the wind do blow!

Karma may be a bitch at times.

She can also be a soul soother.
 

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Golden 100% did NOT bang Wilson's wife ..... That's a fact!

And the SEXYYY chick in the video with the cannons, her name is Hope (didn't get the last name yet, sorry haha )

It's not a fact, if anything, all evidence points to him doing just that.

Hell... One of the chicks in that video is good friends with Wilson's wife.

The wife and Tate denying it are the only evidence against it. Wilson himself hasn't even denied it.
 

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It's not a fact, if anything, all evidence points to him doing just that.

Hell... One of the chicks in that video is good friends with Wilson's wife.

The wife and Tate denying it are the only evidence against it. Wilson himself hasn't even denied it.

It is a fact, he did not do it ... Whether you choose to believe gossip or not is one thing , but reading into all that "evidence", just doesn't make sense .
 

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It is a fact, he did not do it ... Whether you choose to believe gossip or not is one thing , but reading into all that "evidence", just doesn't make sense .

Enlighten us on the evidence...
 

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Not quite sure I understand how Tate is considered a top CFB player from that class. I might have a poor recollection but ..... No... Not seeing it. Certainly not the best player that year.

He won the Biletnikoff, so that's kind of a big deal.
 
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