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OL Justin Boren (Official Thread)

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A public note to the Boren family:

Dad: Everybody here knows how difficult it must be to see your boys playing for the enemy--and how much harder it is to turn your back on them yourself and put your support behind Ohio State. Everybody here is thankful that you did.

Justin and Zach: This is your week. For Justin, it's a chance to stomp on all those slurs about being too weak to put in the S&C work. For Zach, a chance to play with your brother in a game that is the biggest rivalry in all of sports.

For the entire family: This is your chance to write a legacy in a storied tradition.

We are all behind you! Go Bucks!:osu:
 
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GrizzlyBuck;1595034; said:
Between Boren who will want to crush scUM added to the Seniors, Cordle and the Defensive trio of Worthington, Spitler and Coleman, I don't expect any letdown this week.

I think the O-line may play their best game of the year, with Justin leading the way, glad he followed his head, and his heart and came home.
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We now have the benefit that no senior class wants to be the first to allow a Michigan Victory.
 
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Ohio State football: 'Big meatball' has seen Game from both sides
Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By Rusty Miller
Associated Press

COLUMBUS ? In these parts, people don't change sides easily. You're either born a Michigan fan or your bassinet has scarlet and gray trim.

That's why, in the days leading up to No. 9 Ohio State at Michigan on Saturday, there is so much talk about the curious case of Justin Boren.

Boren is from Ohio and starts at left guard for the Buckeyes. But he used to play for the Wolverines.

Ohio State coach Jim Tressel did not permit Boren to speak with reporters this week. But many of his teammates, current and former, had a lot to say.

"When I was a freshman, he came in during one of our meetings (on a recruiting visit) ? and he just fell asleep," said Ohio State's Jim Cordle, who now starts next to Boren at tackle and calls him one of his best friends. "This big meatball just comes in and falls asleep. You heard all the talk about him going to Michigan and stuff, and then he did."

For the next two years, the Buckeyes seethed that a kid who grew up less than 20 miles from Ohio Stadium was now wearing maize and blue. So he was considered a turncoat ? for the first time.

"During the Michigan game when you go out for warmups, both teams are coming out of the same tunnel," Cordle said, reflecting on the 2007 game. "When we went out for warmups, he was coming back in, and I saw him and I kind of stared him down. I was like, 'There's Boren.' "

But then Boren grew disenchanted with Michigan when Coach Lloyd Carr retired two years ago and was replaced by Rich Rodriguez. Boren ? whose father played at Michigan ? stunned both states when he announced he was transferring to Ohio State because, as he put it, "family values have eroded" in the Wolverines' program.

"That was just an excuse about why he wanted to leave," Michigan defensive end Brandon Graham said. "He put that on himself. He didn't give (the coaches) a chance when they got here, and he was just so used to the Coach Carr era, he didn't want to get used to nothing else."

Michigan offensive lineman David Moosman clearly didn't want to discuss Boren.

"Just didn't want to be here. ... Probably shouldn't have come in the first place," he said. "Who's fault was that?"

Asked if he would ever allow his own son ? should he someday have one ? to attend Ohio State, Graham scowled.

"No. I wouldn't do that. I couldn't do that," he said. "I'm not Justin Boren. I couldn't do that."

Once seen as a traitor by Ohio State fans, now Boren is a favorite son. Once a starter for the Wolverines, he's now seen as Benedict Arnold in shoulder pads by Michigan faithful.

"He came to the good side, and here he is," Cordle said with a grin.

Without insight from Boren, no one knows what he is thinking this week. Even his teammates are wondering.

"He's going to have a lot of internal things going on," Ohio State safety Kurt Coleman said. "It's going to be a motivation for him to play. He's usually an animal out there with his mindset. I think this is going to be a totally different game. I would like to watch him throughout the game."
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Ohio State football: 'Big meatball' has seen Game from both sides - The News-Herald Sports : Breaking news coverage for Northern Ohio
Article published November 18, 2009
Key story lines running deep in the trenches

COLUMBUS - Jim Cordle was an early enrollee at Ohio State and was sitting in an offensive line meeting during spring practice in 2005 when a kid he knew a bit from their high school football frays came in while on a recruiting visit.

"He sat down in the back of the room and I looked back a little while later and he'd fallen asleep," Cordle recalled. "I thought, 'You big meatball, go to Michigan.'"

And Justin Boren did. Go to Michigan, that is. Then, in a move believed unprecedented in the century-long rivalry between the two teams, he transferred to Ohio State where, presumably, he no longer catches up on his sleep during team meetings.

"He turned tide and came back to the good side," Cordle said.

Boren's ex-Michigan teammates see it otherwise. To them, he turned tail and went to the dark side. He did a Benedict Arnold, committing the ultimate traitorous act. And, considering he leveled a broadside or two at UM coach Rich Rodriguez on his way out the door, Wolverine players didn't hesitate to fire back on Monday at the start of Ohio State-Michigan week No. 106.

We would love to provide you with Boren's response, but he was not made available for interviews on Monday during the media's lone session with Buckeye players this week.

(If you're interested in why covering OSU is often such a thankless task for beat reporters, others not made available by coach Jim Tressel for Michigan-week interviews included quarterback Terrelle Pryor, running backs Boom Herron and Brandon Saine, receiver DeVier Posey, receiver-return specialist Ray Small, leading tackler Ross Homan, and sacks leader Cameron Heyward. Good gracious, why would anybody want to talk to them?)

Boren started all 13 games at either center or left guard for UM, where both of his parents had been athletes, during the 2007 season and captured honorable mention all-Big Ten. Then Lloyd Carr retired and Rodriguez was hired and Boren suddenly became a Buckeye.

The 315-pounder sat out the '08 season under transfer rules before becoming a mainstay at left guard for Ohio State this year. On Saturday, he will make his first foray back into Michigan Stadium where he will get anything but a hero's welcome.

"He's pumped up," Cordle said. "He knows they'll be going after him. It's always a little weird, I guess, when a central Ohio kid [Boren is from Pickerington] goes to Michigan, but I think most people understood that's where his dad had played football and that there were things Justin probably couldn't control during the recruiting process. He wasn't happy. During the off-seasons he drove home every weekend. I knew he was really a Buckeye at heart. So, this is his week. I think he's been waiting for it since the day he got here."
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scUM's defense is bad enough when they all attempt to play their assignments, I can't imagine how [censored] that they will play if they are going out of their way to make JB look bad. I think both Boren brothers will be going all out to make their mark in this game on the side of the Light, but they'll be doing it inside the team concept, whilst the undisciplined scUM squad may make more mistakes trying to show up JB. I can't wait to have (or see) some pancakes for brunch Saturday :biggrin:
 
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MaxBuck;1597696; said:
Nobody but Brandon Graham on that D has any right to squawk. But Graham does; he's been a man among midgets on the Michigan defense this season.
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From what I've heard of rr's recruiting, Graham is a man amongst midgets on the entire team, dear Barwis, say it isn't so :tongue2:
 
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MaxBuck;1597696; said:
Nobody but Brandon Graham on that D has any right to squawk. But Graham does; he's been a man among midgets on the Michigan defense this season.
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Brandon Graham can't be any good. Just ask any Michigan fan. Follow the logic:

1. Lloyd left Brandon Graham when he stepped down as coach.
2. Lloyd left the cupboard bare--no talent survived Lloyd leaving. Even the transfers (Boren, Mallett) weren't talented. Lloyd had recruited no talent and had no talent on the roster when he turned in his keys.
3. Brandon Graham therefore cannot be talented.

I don't know why this is so difficult for everyone to understand. Michigan fans have been explaining this over and over again for the last 2 years. Maybe it's about time we believed them--well, at least about Graham (not about Boren).
 
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I have seen Justin pull on occasion this year... so wouldn't it be great if he pulls and leads the running play right into the scUM bench??

Yep. that's my call for the first play of the game if I'm Bollman. Sweep into the scUM bench!!

This will be a great game. I'm tired of waiting for it.
 
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