Cool Story Bro - Juwan

I pre-dated the Fab 5 by a bit, unfortunately.  I did, however, get to witness Roy Tarpley do a massive pile of blow at a party though.  So there's that.  Dude was a massive talent; coulda been a hall-of-famer if not for his vices.  Damn shame.

I was expecting an ending along the lines of the laundry room story, in the Bacon book, about Tom Brady...

I'm just imagining what it must be like to pull a load of laundry out of the dryer and realize the t-shirts are about the size of a bedsheet. Must have been some laundry.

Did you go all Hanson Brothers on Coach Howard, trying to get your quarter back?

Were his clothes dry or not? Trying to decide who's the guilty party here. 

i was at UM at the same time, but didn't live in SQ (Bursley represent!)

the stories of the Fab 5 "conquests" in SQ were legendary (i.e Chris Webber having a line of girls waiting outside of his door all night etc.)

I did work at Burger King to pay some bills, and usually worked the closing shift.  It wasn't unusual to have a few of the Fab 5 come by very late to pick up some late night munchies. They were all very nice, but always seemed red-eyed from studying late and spent a lot of time giggling for no reason (probably about the funny jokes from practice)

Juwan cares very much about the cleanliness & freshness of his clothes.  But not yours!

Is this a Christine Blasey Ford story?

Ah yeah, I also heard the rumor about girls lining up outside Webber's dorm back in the day.  Through the prism of three decades, I now ask myself why didn't I saunter over to South Quad and shoot my shot with the dozen or so co-eds who probably didn't get admitted.

Then I looked at myself in the mirror just now and answered my own question.

I used to see him all the time at the movie theater on Carpenter. 

I'm much younger and only graduated last year, but I'll never forget the time I was on a bus with DJ Wilson. As my girlfriend and I were getting off the bus, the doors slammed shut and my girlfriend had to stick out her arms to hold them open. 

DJ looked up from his phone amazed lol.

What did he say when you told him? Or how did he react? Just curious.

Juwan Howard was in one of the classes  that I was a GSI for (Analyzing Television Com 417, I think). He was in one of the other GSI's discussion sections, so I didn't interact with him a lot, but he was always friendly and came to the lectures regularly (unlike some other student athletes I had in my classes).

Fab Five Sixth Man (and erstwhile NBA journeyman) Eric Riley was in my section for the very first class that I was a GSI for. He was very tall. I remember looking up at him as I told him "Eric, you really should come to class more often.

Cool story bro.

Did the washer/dryer machines really only cost a quarter then? I was a year after you and remembered them being at least $1.00. Perhaps it was a South Quad benefit.

I mighta posted this before, but (as is undoubtedly the case with others here), I had a class with the Fab Five and some football players. It's kinda crazy to realize that I was also sitting with our future hoops coach.

Intro to Urban Planning as a sophomore - I was applying to architecture school for junior year, so I figured it was in my wheelhouse.  An architect where I was working six years later related to me that it was apparently a blow-off class that many athletes took, because blow-off class.  The professor (Warner, I think?) was a sweet old lady whose assignments were so softbally that I'm kinda surprised Coach Hutch never had her on scholarship.  Athlete attendance was about 70%ish, but that was about par for the course for everyone.

Of the athletes in attendance, Chris and Jalen were by far the most chatty: I vaguely remember Jalen talking a bit about how parts of SW Detroit were food deserts served only by a lone Farmer Jacks.  (As a Laker fan, I sorely regret neglecting to tell Jalen that in 15 years he'd be literally and figuratively dunked to on to the tune of 81 points by a then-grade schooler named Kobe who would then proceed to coldbloodedly relate that tale ad infinitum)  

CSB Fab5 version.

Recall seeing Webber getting his head shaved on someone’s front porch at a house on either Packard or State.    And seeing Juwan, Jimmy and Jalen walking around fairly often.   And seeing “Big Nook!” on the scoreboard during player intros and being totally confused.