By: AP via ClickOnDetroit.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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…..

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