Its More Than Just A Sticker, Its Justin Boren

It seems like this is a larger topic then at first blush. Maybe it's the off-season that's getting to people. Maybe we just have nothing better to concern ourselves with right now. Spawn of MZone was unhappy with the messing of perfection. Varsity Blue thinks let bygones be bygones...and takes a shot across the MBN bow with a jab at our title (thanks for that). And WLA responds in kind.

I can live with a Michigan man adorning his helmet with Florida State, Northwestern, Richmond, Nebraska and Georgia Tech stickers for a senior bowl. If Morgan Trent wants to do that, so be it. It's his helmet that he earned with 5 years of blood, sweat and tears playing football for the Michigan Wolverines. Like Spawn of MZone, I see the Michigan helmet as a icon that needs no such improvement. But given that senior bowls are famous for players doing such things to their head-gear...I can accept it. The Michigan helmet that we see on Saturdays in the fall is much more important than the ones we see in senior bowls in January.

I do not pretend though that seeing a Buckeye sticker on a Michigan helmet didn't make me seriously question the integrity of the man who's wearing said helmet. I know he's given everything to to Michigan and its fans over 5 years, and his character is intact as far as some bloggers are concerned. I wish I was able to just turn the other cheek and say no big deal.

We've never made an attempt here to say we honestly like Morgan Trent. Is he a good football player? Sure he is. He's been the starting corner back for Michigan since whenever...including two coaching staffs that saw him as the best option. Did he miss big plays and make bonehead mistakes? Sure. And I would argue that making a big mistake as a corner back is much worse than making a big mistake as a defensive lineman. You're on an island out there by yourself. It comes with the territory. But there is a reason tOSU fans are sad to see him leaving.

Until the East-West Shrine game last weekend, I never considered him anything less than a noble and faithful Michigan man. I do not know him personally, nor have I ever even met him. So for me to cast my character insults may seem resentful. But how much more worse is it to see a player who I truly cheered for, basically slap Michigan fans in the face with a solitary Buckeye sticker on his Michigan helmet. If Michigan won a few times over the last 5 years against tOSU, then maybe I could see it as something of a light-hearted joke. But we haven't, so I'm bitter.

Like I said, it's not the other stickers that bothered me. Not at all actually, just the one sticker of Michigan biggest rival. And so what if bloggers or fans want to be critical? How do you think Bo would have felt had he saw Morgan Trent's helmet this past weekend? Call me old-fashioned, but I think it was a disgrace.


Morgan Trent may get drafted in the last round of the NFL draft and go on to have a Tom Brady-like career. Or he may get cut after being picked up as an undrafted free-agent. Who really knows. I don't really care now. But there is a distinct difference between what is preceived as right and wrong. And to me, what he did was just wrong.