Driving to a meeting in Detroit this morning for my day job, I flipped on WJR just as the Lloyd Carr press conference was beginning. I must say it was a solemn moment. Woody, Earle, John, Bo, and now Lloyd. The Michigan rivalry has been apart of this Buckeye’s life for 38 years now. They have all had a role in making it all that it is and now Lloyd too is moving on.

I know many Michigan fans are glad to see him go, and of course I myself never, ever, forever want to lose to the school up north. But Tress was right when he said about Lloyd that you judge a man by his whole body of work. And on that account Lloyd is going out a winner. He has represented college football and Michigan with civility and integrity that is rarer and rarer these days. It’s a shame that is not enough in the times we live in, where winning matters above all else.

Respecting Coach Carr in no way diminishes my pasion for the Buckeyes and my disdain for our opponent on game day of the rivalry. So as I crossed the border into Michigan I called a truce and silently listened giving Coach Carr his due....but only for a little while..... after all, it’s only 363 days till we play the school up north again!