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Right: Now the most hated man in the state of Michigan, Justin Boren.
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Well, it’s official. Sophomore offensive lineman Justin Boren is a Buckeye.
Boren, who hails from Pickerington, Ohio, a suburb southeast of Columbus and attended North High School, left the Michigan football team in March, citing an erosion of “family values” since Rich Rodriguez replaced Lloyd Carr as head coach after last season.
Boren started every game last year at either left guard or center for the Wolverines. Due to NCAA transfer rules, he will have to sit out the 2008 season. Due to Big Ten transfer rules by going from one conference institution to another, he will have to pay his own way and will never be on scholarship at Ohio State.
Boren said this to Tim May of The Columbus Dispatch:
It’s exciting to be coming back home to central Ohio. I am looking forward to the chance to help the Buckeyes continue their excellence in any way I can.”
Translation: “I’m tired of getting my brains beat in by the Buckeyes every November, and now I want to play for the winning team.
Other football news:
Ohio State will host Navy next season, and will make a return trip to take on the Midshipmen in the Annapolis/Baltimore area for the 2014 campaign.
Yawn.
Other basketball news:
Freshman forward Eric Wallace is leaving the team and plans on transferring after playing in 15 of Ohio State’s 37 games this past season, and averaged 1.8 points in 4.8 minutes of action.
Wallace, who’s a tremendous athlete, just didn’t seem to possess the fundamentals or the basketball IQ that others had in his class, but would of eventually received more playing time as he developed.
This will free a scholarship for junior college transfer Nicola Kecman, a 6-foot-9 native of Belgrade, Serbia, who is considering the Buckeyes.
Kecman averaged 13.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for Eastern Arizona College, who finished with a 30-6 record.
According to Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Kecman made an official visit to Kentucky, this past weekend. He is scheduled to make an official visit to Ohio State this weekend, and is also considering Mississippi.
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