Jimmy King's New Plan to Get the Fab Five's Banners Put Back Up
Jimmy King said on a podcast yesterday that he's working with the University to put together some sort of roundtable to discuss what it will take to get the Fab Five's banners put back up.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wol…
Good luck to him.
Do we still think that if Webber apologized, they'd go back up the next day?
I'm not sure how it is that you joined in May of 2015 and only have 8 MGoPoints, but kudos on your screen name. Messners Stache is sweet.
That's no way to talk about yourself, WD.
Wow, you really are WD. That'e exactly what WD would say as an alter ego to throw everybody off the trail.
You're going to say you hate noon games next, aren't you?
Exactly what we would expect you to say, WD
did getting a girlfriend become a cure all?
What they can't fix, a wife will. What a wife can't fix, having kids will. What kids won't fix, a mistress will. What a mistress will get you is a divorce.
This is good advice. If you're having relationship trouble, get married or have children. All your problems will go away.
I can see his point since 4/5 of the starting 5 along with the backups didn't do anything wrong. I can also see the university's viewpoint.
That is a reasoned and fair point, you know this thread is no place for that
I don't buy that for one second. Look at how many schools that have "self-punished" themselves in order to get leniency from the NCAA. They're all fine now.
Michigan went above and beyond those laughable measures and ended up really damaging the basketball program for a long time.
Big mistake in retrospect.
that was part of the punishment
Personally, even though it sucks, I'd rather be a school that reacts in the appropriate way than a school that "cheats the system" to get out of further punishment. The bottom line is that they played ineligible players, and that's against the rules.
That being said, if, in theory, the NCAA were any kind of actual, working, competent institution, it would be nice if there were some collaborative effort to make a compromise...but that will never happen.
Sigh...
It's crucial. Without the Fab 5 banners, how am I supposed to call for Beilein's head? Let's recount the past glory of Michigan basketball once more...
OK:
"As much as we were known for the trash-talking, the flashy passes, the dunks, the highlight reels, people forget that we actually led the nation in defense."
*Sigh*
I guess it is the "Banners, or it didn't happen" theory at play....
At first glance the guy folding the banner looks like SNL fake Sean Connery.
He looks like a slimmed down Captain Kangaroo.
That was a bad time to be a Wolverine what with the Captain's red and Mr. Greenjeans.
Captain Kangaroo actually wore a Navy blue coat from when the show first started in 1955 . Problem is, the show was televised in black and white until 1967. The change to a red coat coincided with the move from the "Treasure House " to "The Captain's place, which also happened in '71.
Need proof he was a Michigan fan? Here's the Captain with Tom Terrific:
...and with the rest of his gang:
Captain Kangaroo >>>>>>>>>Mr. Rogers
we vacated the two games of the final four in 1992. It was outside the 4 year statute of limitations rule when the investigation started in 1996. I've never seen a school do that before: vacated part of a NCAA tourney run but not all of it. I've seen just the tourney appearance vacated but our sanctions were truly unique in how it affected the official record books for us. In that case, maybe the Fab Five can still somehow lobby for an elite eight banner for that year, but I guess that would of be like rewarding mediocrity
Can the University vacate MSC and bring back the Final Four banners?
That actually raises a very interesting point. Putting the banners back up is meaningless in the same way saying, "We vacate DB" is. It already happened. Nothing changes.
You can display them at my house. I don't have any discernible standards.
Besides not being there, you obviously haven't spelled Crisler for a while either.
what the f does NY mind mean?
In other words, take your take and reevaluate.
I guess I just don't see paying players as that big of a deal. I think academic misdeeds (UNC) and covering up criminal activity (PSU) are much, much worse.
But then again I'm not a fan of vacating wins as a punishment under any circumstances. Even for PSU. You want to dock scholarships or ban post-season play, fine. But those games happened, even if a player took some money.
Yeah, I agree. It's hard to get past the idea that what we saw didn't actually happen. Besides that it's not even remotely a deterrent. The school has already reaped all the positive attention and benefits from winning whatever they won.
Instead of vacating, they should put asterisks in the record books, count your asterisked and un-asterisked wins, and then make it one fucking hell of a lot harder to win in the future. Far more extensive scholarship reductions, loss of home games, and take the wraps off the death penalty. And none of this Penn State "aw, you guys did good for a couple years, you can get out of jail now" bullshit. I think UNC should get the death penalty for their scandal, for example. I think Miami with the Nevin Shapiro thing should've been forced to play a year or two entirely on the road.