Beilein Expects Michigan to Honor Fab Five (pending Webber)
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22993093/michiga…
Wouldn't be a Michigan March Madness without the Fab Five being mentioned. This seems to be the first confirmation that Michigan is moving towards re-hanging the banners thus triggering many on this board.
Beilein also hints at Webber declining invites, so it might really just boil down to him getting over it, apology or no apology.
Whats the Big Deal?
We have no moral stance against the Louisvilles of this world if we demand those banners be hung back up. I am glad Coach Beilein is handling Louisville championship questions with class but they cheated in order to win that just as Michigan cheated in order to secure the Fab Five recruiting class.
I think Webber is still salty over the timeout situation. Rarely does a mention of the Fab Five go bye without Webber's timeout being brought up.
A moral stance doesn't relieve the sting of the championship that was stolen from us. Nor does it make up for the crooked coaches and programs out there who have committed hundreds of infractions and gotten away with it. The NCAA convinced Mary Sue Coleman and Michigan to fall on their sword, and they did. It was extortion against a new university president and vulnerable young inner city kids. I know we all love to ride the high horse around here, but the NCAA is such a corrupt piece of shit, I sometimes wonder why we take so much pride in following their bullshit rules that they refuse to enforce against other bluebloods.
Yes! To hell with UNC!!
If it was truly about morals, then Michigan should return the piles of cash it made off of the kids' likeness as well.
Michigan cheated in order to secure the Fab 5 recruiting class??
Oh boy, please do tell...
Okay real talk, I just went for the Beilein quotes while reading the article cuz I didn't believe the headline at first.
So I didn't see who wrote the article. Now that I've seen it, I regret posting this.
This guy was the same dude who ranked Michigan as #15 in his re-seeded Sweet Sixteen.
Rip.
I liked those guys but my favorite Michigan players from that era were Rumeal Rice, Terry Vaught and Glen Mills.
Terry Vaught is Terry Mills and Loy Vaught's child?
He was a player around the same time as Demetrius Grant and Gary Calip.
forq
Let it go (especially the media). I don't want Webber anywhere near this program. Hoping he is not calling the game tomorrow night. If he does, we lose for sure.
It seems as if there is at least a small portion of our fan base that wants to rehang the Fab Five banners and at the same time hang a National Title banner for 2013.....because Louisville cheated. Seems like we can't have it both ways.
The Fab Five is a part of the history of our Program, for good and for bad. It exposed some of the dirty elements of collegiate sports, while at the same time showing some of the truth behind the exploitation. Above all, it showed a story about five men from struggling backgrounds coming together, becoming brothers, and creating a new style on the basketball court. It encapsulated the nation, and is an interesting phenomenon in the history of college basketball. I am proud of that team, those guys, and hope our university welcomes them back with open arms and does more to mend the relationships.
if the University and the Program want to welcome them back into the fold, I would be happy to see that day...
its been over 25 years... i hope that there can be a reconciliation one day.
Yes, and they were cleaner than any Duke/UNC team of the last two decades.
So Chris needs to apologize so we can recognize Jimmy, Jalen, Juwan, Ray, et all. I am not saying the banners are the way to do it, but trashing/ignoring the team through guilt by association is juvenile.
Once again (and clearly you didn't read all of what I said and just stopped at the first sentence):
We can recognize them. And I'm not saying the university should ignore them at all. I am in complete support of reconciliation. I'm just saying the banners don't need to be involved. We don't need them to remember the Fab Five, as these many years without them have established.
We did have to return the NCAA tournament revenues we received from the vacated years.
Do you think the 2013 team "never won anything"?
Two national championship game appearances in a row is nothing to sneeze at. They were the greatest collection of talent on a single team that Michigan basketball has ever had. And I'll go on a limb and say that level of talent may not be repeated at Michigan, at least in my lifetime. It was surreal watching five freshmen take the court for the 1992 national championship game.