And now time for some propaganda: If you are a Michigan fan that has been living under a rock you may have missed this. For those Maize and Blue faithful that don't live under rocks, the news of Justin Boren leaving Michigan has already come across you desks. I, being the insider that brings all you readers to this blog everyday, have no information except for what has been report but here is what I think about it: Big F'ing Deal. If you don't want to play for Michigan you should not play for Michigan. Boren being gone is not going to cost us one game but him being there and thinking he should be somewhere else might.
Boren said that part of the reason why he is leaving is that he was not getting the support he needed from the new coaching staff. The coaches are not there to support you. They are there to tell you how much you suck and to give you pointers on how to suck less. Coaches are only allowed to tell you that you may not have actually sucked as much as they said you did after you have graduated. He also implied the mutual respect and family atmosphere that existed under Coach Carr is gone. How can someone earn respect when they quit after a couple of months of practice? Boren, Mitchell, Ciulla, Mallet, and any other player that decides to quit can go ahead and pack their bags without any sympathy from me.
Many of you out there are probably thinking I am a moron. Boren was the best offensive lineman we had and was the one with the most experience of course Michigan would be better off with him. If you think that then eat me because I don't care. I would reather have a full line that is all on the same page than having a line that is fractured because some of them would rather be somewhere else. Bo had a sign made when he came to Michigan in 1969 that said that "Those who stay will be Champions." Nobody expected that Michigan team to do anything that year especially with perhaps the most talented Ohio State team ever assembled waiting for them but in the end it the players that did stay were champions. The defied the odds, beat the Buckeyes and won the Big Ten.
This year people are saying that Michigan will be lucky to win 8 games and are not even ranked in many pre-season polls. To be sure this year's schedule is tough with games at Notre Dame, at Penn State, at Ohio State and back to back games against tough Wisconsin and Illinois teams early in the season but here is what I know, Michigan is going to be ready. If players think practice is tough now, just want until the two a days in the middle of the summer. Just wait until they actually have a decent understanding of the new system and are forced to push their physical and mental limits beyond what they thought possible. Losing to Appalacian State, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Ohio State (all but Wisconsin at home) should be motivation enough but with the new coaching staff everyone is also fighting for a job, fighting for a scholarship, and fighting to prove that they have what it takes to be the best. If someone is not willing to do what it takes, then I say the bus schedule is posted in the Union, goodbye. But that is just me and I am trying to avoid doing homework right now so what do I know?
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Glad to see someone is using those old bus tickets I left around town
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