ANN ARBOR, Mich. -Justin Boren one of two returning starters off of Lloyd Carrs Michigan team from a year ago has left the team. He said the reason he was leaving was due to an erosion of the family values. He says according to the Associated Press that the Michigan of old was very much a family value oriented team. I don’t dought this because Lloyd Carr was a class act. But I am stongly wondering if this is the case because if it was I don’t know that the fact that Boren is blasting the new coach and staff doesn’t seem like a family value type thing to do. Maybe he should have tried to watch his ex-coach and tried to imulate him and go softly into the night.
Boren who was 6-foot-3, 310-pound would have been the most experienced lineman coming back. The junior-to-be started every game last season, either at center or left guard.
After leaving the team on Monday he blasted the coaches with this statment on Wednesday.“Michigan football was a family, built on mutual respect and support for each other from (former) Coach (Lloyd) Carr on down. We knew it took the entire family, a team effort, and we all worked together.
“I have great trouble accepting that those family values have eroded in just a few months. ” … That I am unable to perform under these circumstances at the level I expect of myself, and my teammates and Michigan fans deserve, is why I have made the decision to leave.”
He may have had trouble adapting to new coach Rich Rodriguez’s no-huddle spread offense. He mentioned the difficulty the offensive linemen had constantly running to the line of scrimmage. Sounds like Mr. Boren needed to do some conditioning.Rodriguez said “I don’t know if we’ll have any more (attrition), but we’re forging ahead with guys that play for Michigan,” the coach said.
Way to go coach talk about the people who stayed not the quitters.
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