Former University of Michigan offensive lineman Justin Boren is now officially an Ohio State Buckeye, a development which has caused much gnashing of teeth around college football. This is the first time ever that a Wolverines player has gone over to play for their most hated rival, which should raise some suspicions, I would think. Didn't Luca Brazi try that in The Godfather? Result: Knife in hand, and a stranglin'. Things like this just usually never work out.
Former Michigan offensive lineman Justin Boren, who left Michigan in mid-March citing a "decline of family values" under coach Rich Rodriguez, has transferred to Ohio State. Boren started all of last season at center and left guard for Michigan. Ohio State coach Jim Tressel confirmed the transfer to the Columbus Dispatch for a story in today's edition.
Fortunately, Michigan fans are taking this well.
Boren of course will have to sit out a year before playing his final three seasons with the Buckeyes; a situation made all the weirder by the fact that his father, Mike, played for Michigan under Bo Schembechler in the early 1980s. A bit surprisingly, not all Ohio State players are completely on board with this.
UPDATE: Michigan fans still taking the news well.
Justin Boren Transfers To Ohio State [Detroit Free Press]
Justin Boren Sweepstakes [Buckeye Commentary]









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He cites a decline in family values and then goes to the school that produced Andy Katzenmoyer?
left Michigan in mid-March citing a "decline of family values"
Then go work for the Justice department, dummy.
Justin Boren has moved from persona non grata with Michigan fans to "unpersoned like a Soviet dissident."
True story, I stood in Barwis' empty parking spot last Saturday and immediate was overcome with the urge to run four miles. Thankfully, the urge passed.
Shoulda been you Coach Rod.
Oh wait, it was. Ha!
So he's a big Korn fan, huh?
Kevin Hart is calling a press conference to announce a late signing with Michigan to replace Justin Boren.
Either way he wont win the big game...
He just really wanted the chance to lose to an sec school in the BCS title game.
Who knew that Santino Holmes photo would be such a great recruitment tool?
Is it me, or is Boren's smile creepily similar to that of Rich Rodriguez?
[deadspin.com]
I remember having a similar feeling when Randall Cunningham signed with the Cowboys.
That kid is kind of spooky, he reminds me of Pvt. Pyle in "Full Metal Jacket". No one give him a rifle.
He already has the chins to be an OSU co-ed.
The Republican Party approves of his reasoning for the transfer.
So if we're going with this Luca Brasi theme, does that mean Tressel will jam a knife in Boren's hand while an OSU assistant strangles him with a wire?
And then a day later, Rich Rodriguez will get Boren's shoulder pads wrapped around a dead fish?
Coach Rodriguez, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.
@twoeightnine: and the 5 o'clock shadow
Speaking of The Godfather, a QB recruit who orally committed this week said Michigan was the Godfather of college football.
Boren is dead to us. Gave up two years of starting to maybe not even play at OSU because either he couldn't take all the yelling and actual intense training, or because Daddy Boren didn't want his sons playing at different schools and Michigan wasn't offering Zach Boren a scholarship. Weak.
Holy Shit!
That guy Looks like Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket...
I guess Boren's dad forgot to tell Don Schembechler he hoped his first child would be a masculine child.
Justin Boren just wanted to get that elusive DUI, which is in the possession of most, if not all Ohio State players.
When reached for comment, Boren exclaimed: "That's my purse, I don't know you!"
Justin must now eliminate Jake Long before Saturday to prove his allegiance.
/thinks this is perfectly reasonable if it means Vernon Gholston will be drafted higher
Great comments on the bo blog about the conditioning program:
"Glad they're going to work harder so as not to lose to App. State..."
+1 to you Anonymous
For the record, App State likely could have wiped the floor with most of the schools from the Big 10 (back to back means something, even in D-Whatever), but, wait, what were we talking about? Terelle Pryor?
Wow...no comments yet on the Mike Cooper inspired buckstache t-shirt at the M-Zone?
[michiganzone.blogspot.com]
I'll drink your milkshake, maize and blue.
Former Michigan offensive lineman Justin Boren, who left Michigan in mid-March citing a "decline of family values" under coach Rich Rodriguez
Interpretation: Michigan is far worse at covering up date rapes than OSU.
He wanted off to take his sister to the prom.
@Slick Rick's Bookie: i was gonna say "special olympics tag?"
leaves the declining family values of Michigan for that bastion of all that is good and right in this world...Ohio State.
Boren will be playing Lennie in "Of Mice and Men" at Midtown Playhouse. Saturday and Sunday matinees are smoke-free
Adults: $4.00
Children under 12 free
So he's traded ugly skinny chicks for the ugly fat chicks he knew so well closer to home?
Family values have no place in sports.
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