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Golden Tate - a very
Topic Started: Mar 3 2010, 11:01 AM (78 Views)
humbletx


nice overview by one of our local cybercrowd who gets around in the NFL

Golden Tate, WR Notre Dame: Despite being in South Bend for the past three years of law school, since the moment I arrived my attitude towards Notre Dame football has been one of smug indifference: "And what, precisely, do you offer that I do not already have?" In the fall of my 1L year, I went to the season opener and, with the Irish trailing Georgia Tech 26-3 early in the 4th quarter, left early to make sure I arrived back home for kickoff of the Texas-Arkansas State game on pay-per-view. I did not attend a single minute of a single game the rest of that season, or either of the next two. (As much as anything, covering Texas and CFB from afar meant I was either traveling or parked in front of a TV most every Saturday.)

All of which is to say: I did not walk up to Golden Tate's media session a fanboy. He'd impressed me quite a bit when I'd caught him on TV, but I was wholly indifferent when he began to talk with us.

But by the time he was finished, I was pretty well floored. Bear in mind that even while most of these kids make good impressions on you up close, it's not because they 'wow' you -- they just seem like good kids, really. So I'm really saying something when I say that Golden Tate was an actual treat. I loved him. He's very, very intelligent, and he handled the media as well as Tim Tebow, except there wasn't anything polished about it. He was natural, and charismatic -- not just smooth.

He made me (and everyone else) genuinely laugh three or four times. He was refreshingly candid and insightful. He didn't shy away from any tough questions, mixed in dabs of self-deprecation and confidence at all the right moments, and generally charmed the pants off of the group from start to finish. When it was all over, I texted an ND friend of mine: "Your boy Golden Tate is awesome. He's gonna get paid on his interviews alone."

And then two days later he ran the third-best 40 time at the Combine. Hello, first round. Bank on it.
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Golden Tate has a great family behind him. His parents valued their childrens' education and made sure that they were surrounded by a solid support group of other families who felt the same way about their kids. My nephew is Wesley Tate's suite mate in college and was one of Golden's team mates on both the football and baseball team at Pope John Paul II High School. He said 3 years ago that this kid is a better person than he is an athlete.
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Mar 3 2010, 11:13 AM
Golden Tate has a great family behind him. His parents valued their childrens' education and made sure that they were surrounded by a solid support group of other families who felt the same way about their kids. My nephew is Wesley Tate's suite mate in college and was one of Golden's team mates on both the football and baseball team at Pope John Paul II High School. He said 3 years ago that this kid is a better person than he is an athlete.
its obvious Notre Dame took in a youngster and churned out another classic 'Golden Domer'..
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