Rickey Foggie Rickey Foggie ( born July 15 , 1966 in Laurens , South Carolina ) is a former quarterback . Foggie was the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Golden Gophers for four seasons , before going on to play professionally in – first the Canadian Football League , and then later in the Arena Football League . Foggie is currently an assistant football coach in both the af2 and in high school football . College career . He became a successful option quarterback in the South Carolina high school ranks and was recruited by Lou Holtz to play collegiately at the University of Minnesota , where Holtz was coming in to take over the program , after surprisingly leaving powerhouse Arkansas . The Gophers were coming off a 1 - 10 season under Joe Salem , from the previous year , and it didn ’ t take long for Foggie to assert himself as the starting quarterback for Minnesota as a true 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 over Iowa and star quarterback Chuck Long , which returned the Floyd 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 the Independence Bowl , which would be their first bowl game in 8 years . Among the Gophers five defeats were close losses to Oklahoma ( who would go on to win the National Championship ) and Ohio State . Meanwhile , when the Notre Dame head coach ing position became available , Lou Holtz was offered and accepted the job to coach the Irish . Assistant John 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 would also finish 6 - 5 the following year in 1986 and earn another bowl invitation – this time to the Liberty Bowl . They would lose to Tennessee in this matchup . Foggie continued to develop into a better and more mature quarterback and was also helped along by the addition of talented freshman running back , Darrell Thompson , who emerged as a star in the making , that season . The highlight of that season was the Gophers upset of Rose Bowl bound Michigan at " The Big House " – earning Minnesota the Little Brown Jug for the first time in 9 years . In Foggie ’ s senior year in 1987 , the Gophers again finished 6 - 5 , however this year they failed to receive a bowl invite . Canadian Football League ( CFL ) . Thought of as running quarterback who wouldn ’ t succeed in the National Football League , Foggie was bypassed in the 1988 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 the Canadian Football League . He started out in the CFL with the BC Lions backing up Matt Dunigan , whom he would follow to Toronto in 1990 . Later , he would join the Toronto Argonauts , where he would be an instrumental part of the league ’ s highest scoring team . Foggie would later play for the Edmonton Eskimos and the Memphis Mad Dogs in the CFL . Arena Football League ( AFL ) . Next he would embark on a career in the Arena Football League , where he would play 8 seasons spanning 10 years . He started off his AFL career back in Minnesota , where he had starred collegiately , as the starting quarterback of the expansion Minnesota Fighting Pike , who would only play that one season at the Target Center in 1996 . Then he would quarterback the New Jersey Red Dogs from 1997 to 2000 , where he would attain his greatest success in the AFL , throwing for over 8 , 700 yards and 155 touchdowns in his first three seasons with the club . In 2001 , he played for the Florida Bobcats , where he may have had his best season in the AFL – setting personal season highs with 3619 yards passing and 69 touchdowns . In 2002 , he played for the Detroit Fury and the Toronto Phantoms , and then after a season off in 2003 , he played one final season in 2004 with the Carolina Cobras . He finished his AFL career with 17921 yards passing , 325 touchdowns and a 96 . 38 quarterback rating . Coaching career . At 38 , Foggie retired on the playing field , but continued on in arena football as a coach . Foggie moved to the lower tier af2 to pursue this . In 2005 as the offensive coordinator of the Amarillo Dusters , he orchestrated the highest scoring offense in the af2 , with a 55 . 8 average . In 2006 , he got his only head coaching job to date , when he took over the Everett Hawks after an 0 - 3 start . After only six games as the head man , there , Foggie was lured over to the Macon Knights by head coach Derek Stingley to be their offensive coordinator . In 2007 , Foggie followed Stingley to Albany , Georgia to be the offensive coordinator for the South Georgia Wildcats . Foggie also agreed to be the offensive coordinator of Burnsville High School , a suburb of Minneapolis , after the af2 season ends . Rickey Foggie lives in Minneapolis , during the offseason . = Career after football = After a stellar football career with the Minnesota Gophers , Foggie took his talents to the trucking world of Transport America .