sandgk;1125799; said:
Though Mike Boren wants to avoid split campuses ...
?I?m not going to have two kids at two universities,? Mike said.
I've only read the two articles - that one, and a very similar one in the Detroit News - that quote Mike Boren, but from that much, I don't trust the guy. He sounds a bit.... meddlesome.
"Three years ago, if I had seen in a crystal ball that the whole coaching staff was going to change halfway through his career, I would never have let Justin go to Michigan," Mike Boren told the paper.
Sure, parents are always wanting to look out for their kids. But...."I wouldn't have
let my kid go"?
I dunno. It makes me wonder. Is Mike going to let Justin make his own decision on where to go next? And if he does, does Zach get to make his own call, if he doesn't want to follow Justin? And who is so spoiled as to 100% expect that no coaching change will happen a few years down the road.
Sounds like whoever wants to recruit either Boren had better recruit Mike instead. This business of not letting your kids split up....who says that?
The difference that Michigan's administration will be forced to face is one where the new coach is the problem. He's the one bringing the problem element into the program, and it won't be from inexperience but rather a continuation of his policies and philosophies from WVU. What do they do then?
No wonder you never understood why the Lazear issue didn't concern me when RR was hired. What makes you think the administration would turn a complete blind eye to the most prominent, most publicized, and probably most famous aspect of the entire university. The most recognizable symbol of the entire school is the winged helmet of the football team - there is no way Bill Martin or any of the school administration will ignore who gets a scholarship and things like that.
Anyway, my thoughts on a potential Boren transfer to OSU: I personally have no hard feelings for anybody who transfers, for nearly any reason. I'm sure Boren has his legitimate reasons for wanting to go, and if you aren't happy to the extent that you're willing to sit a year in order to leave, then you should. But. But but but. If he transfers to Columbus, that, to me, means one of three things:
1) He never really felt real loyalty to Michigan in the first place.
2) He once was loyal to Michigan but had such a cataclysmic change of heart that, essentially, Michigan is now dead to him.
3) Daddy made him. See above.
In any case it will make his words ring hollow when he said, "I will always be proud to have been a part of Michigan football." I can't accept that Ohio State is simply "a better fit"; if you have any, any feeling at all, any trace of pride or affection for Michigan, you don't pack up and play for Ohio State. There are literally hundreds of other schools - one of them has got to also be a good fit. The reverse is also true, I would guess. Hell, if an entire thread is made to bash the "Fredos" that grew up in Ohio but signed with Michigan, imagine how you'd feel if they played for OSU first.
If Boren goes somewhere like Iowa, or even MSU, I wish him all the best and if he made the NFL, I'd gladly count him among the long list of Wolverines in the league. Not so if he plays for the Buckeyes. I wouldn't stoop to gratuitous bashing (I'd abide by the no-bashing-Buckeyes rules here) but I'd forget he ever wore maize and blue.
