 Foggie participating in the 2013 Minnesota Gophers Alumni Flag Football Game. | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Quarterback | ||||||||||||
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| Born | (1966-07-15)July 15, 1966 (age 59) Laurens, South Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Laurens (SC) | ||||||||||||
| College | Minnesota | ||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 1988: undrafted | ||||||||||||
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Rickey Foggie (born July 15, 1966) is an American formergridiron footballquarterback. Foggie was thestarting quarterback for theMinnesota Golden Gophers for four seasons, before going on to play professionally in theCanadian Football League (CFL) andArena Football League (AFL).[1] Foggie had a short tenure as the head footballcoach for the Minnesota Myth AFL team.[2]
Foggie became a successfuloption quarterback in theSouth Carolinahigh school ranks and was recruited byLou Holtz to play collegiately at theUniversity of Minnesota, where Holtz was coming in to take over the program, after surprisingly leaving powerhouseArkansas. The Gophers were coming off a 1–10 season underJoe Salem, from the previous year, and it didn't take long for Foggie to assert himself as thestarting quarterback for Minnesota as atrue freshman. The Gophers finished the 1984 season with a 4–7 record in Holtz’s first season as coach and Foggie’s first year as signal caller, as Foggie started to show off some of his versatile skills, both as a runner and a passer and give Minnesota fans a glimpse of a more promising outlook for the Gophers, with Foggie entrenched at quarterback. The season was topped off by a surprising upset overIowa and star quarterbackChuck Long, which returned theFloyd of Rosedale to Minnesota after a two-year absence.
In 1985, Foggie’s sophomore season, the Gophers made further strides to be a solid program, as they finished off the regular season at 6–5 and earned an invitation to theIndependence Bowl, which was their first bowl game in 8 years. Among the Gophers five defeats were close losses toOklahoma (who would go on to win the National Championship) andOhio State. Meanwhile, when theNotre Damehead coaching position became available, Lou Holtz was offered and accepted the job to coach the Irish. AssistantJohn Gutekunst was named the new head coach and led the Gophers in their bowl game against Clemson, which the Gophers won to raise their final season record to 7–5.
The Gophers finished 6–5 the following year in 1986 and earn another bowl invitation – this time to theLiberty Bowl. They lost toTennessee in this matchup. Foggie continued to develop into a better and more mature quarterback and was also helped along by the addition of talented freshmanrunning back,Darrell Thompson, who emerged as a star in the making, that season. The highlight of that season was the Gophers upset ofRose Bowl boundMichigan atThe Big House – earning Minnesota theLittle Brown Jug for the first time in 9 years.
In Foggie’s senior year in 1987, the Gophers again finished 6–5, however, that year they failed to receive a bowl invite.
Thought of as running quarterback who wouldn't succeed in theNational Football League, Foggie was bypassed in the1988 NFL draft. Although many felt he would have a better chance of making the NFL at another position, Foggie opted to remain a quarterback and joined theCanadian Football League. He started out in the CFL with the BC Lions backing up Matt Dunigan (reaching the Grey Cup final with the Lions in1988), whom he followed to the Toronto Argonauts in 1990, in which he won the Grey Cup in1991. where he was an instrumental part of the league’s highest scoring team.[1] Foggie later played for theEdmonton Eskimos (winning another Grey Cup title with them in1993) and theMemphis Mad Dogs in the CFL.[3]
Next, Foggie embarked on a career in theArena Football League, where he played eight seasons spanning 10 years. He started off his AFL career back inMinnesota, where he had starred collegiately, as the starting quarterback of the expansionMinnesota Fighting Pike, who only played one season at theTarget Center in 1996. Then he quarterbacked theNew Jersey Red Dogs from 1997 to 2000, where he attained his greatest success in the AFL, throwing for over 8,700 yards and 155 touchdowns in his first three seasons with the club.[4] In 2001, he played for theFlorida Bobcats,[5] where he may have had his best season in the AFL – setting personal season highs with 3619 yards passing and 69 touchdowns.[6] In 2002, he played for theDetroit Fury[7] and theToronto Phantoms, and then after a season off in 2003, he played one final season in 2004 with theCarolina Cobras. He finished his AFL career with 17,921 yards passing, 325 touchdowns and a 96.38 quarterback rating.[4]
At 38, Foggie retired on the playing field, but continued on inarena football as a coach. Foggie moved to the lower tieraf2 to pursue this. In 2005 as theoffensive coordinator of theAmarillo Dusters, he orchestrated the highest scoring offense in the af2, with a 55.8 average.[1] In 2006, he got his only head coaching job to date, when he took over theEverett Hawks after an 0–3 start.[8] After only six games as the head man,[2] there, Foggie was lured over to theMacon Knights by head coach Derek Stingley to be their offensive coordinator.[2] In 2007, Foggie followed Stingley toAlbany, Georgia to be the offensive coordinator for theSouth Georgia Wildcats.[2] Foggie also agreed to be the offensive coordinator ofBurnsville High School, a suburb ofMinneapolis,[2] after the af2 season ends.[9] In 2014, Foggie accepted the position of head coach for the Red Wing (Minnesota) High School football team.[10] Foggie was named head coach of theEagan High School Wildcats, a metropolitan school in the Minnesota 6A South Suburban Conference, "accepting" the job May 13, 2016, after two seasons at Red Wing. But 10 days later Foggie was out, as a district communication specialist said that was never official and that Foggie had effectively changed his mind.[11] Foggie asserted that he was forced to resign due to an accidental Twitter follow of a pornographic website.[12] In November 2023, Foggie returned to the AFL as he was named head coach of the newMinnesota Myth. On May 10, Foggie resigned as head coach of the Myth.[13]
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