Jalen ready to forgive Chris?
I never want to get too excited about a Fab Five reunion, but it appears Rose is ready at least to make that first move...
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverin…
Haven't we been waiting on Chris for like 20 something years now?
Who gives a shit
That pretty much sums it up. I stop giving a shit a long time ago.
I would try a laxative if I were you, also eat more fiber and drink more water!
You are specifically talking about "leaving" a shit. I was referring to "giving" a shit. Big difference.
I’ll take your shit
Let them have their reunion, but NEVER hang the banners. (HAWT take I know)
I used to care, and maybe a small part of me still does... but goddamn, they are grown men these days, time to fade away to history...
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Good for him. These guys played nearly 30 years ago, and they still can't help putting themselves in the spotlight. Enough already.
If they hadn't gotten in trouble, the university would have been putting them in the spotlight for the last 25 years to continue to profit off of their likenesses and accomplishments.
Juwan, Jalen, Jimmy, and Ray didn't get in trouble.
It was Webber, Mo Taylor, Louis Bullock, and Tractor.
Um Jalen might not have gotten caught but he got stuff too
I was referring to Jalen and Chris.
And as someone already pointed out, Jalen just didn't get caught.
Good for him then. He didn't get the school in trouble. Despite being investigated by the FBI, nothing was found with Jalen.
Guess we are doing this again.
I, for one, care. Jalen has been a great representative and spokesman for our University. He's been more of a man than C Webb ever could be in terms of owning mistakes, moving on, and taking actions that support, grow, and enrich our community. If Webber is ready, I'm thrilled.
Are you forgetting that DUI that Jalen picked up shortly before the Fab Five documentary came out, which he then got the press to sit on until about two weeks after the film aired? He ended up spending time in jail...
Yes because everyone should be measured solely based on their biggest mistake.
Do you want Harbaugh fired?
It all comes down to Webber. My gawd the guy is in his 40's now. Time to admit a mistake, when you were young, and make amends now and move on in life. I really don't care anymore, but anything I see from him he comes across as childish about this whole thing still.
Agree! he comes across as a pouting little boy forced to sit in the corner facing the wall with his arms crossed. I would be shocked if he EVER owned his problems in A2. I am happy that the others seem to be doing well especially Jalen and Juwan. I dont get how Webber can show up at the Chanpionship vs Louisville, get out of the car and puts on a M beanie. Shows support on camera, but doesnt sit with the others and still wont comment on the whole ordeal.
Jalen’s a prominent alum whose been successful in two prominent careers and positively reps Michigan all the time.
I hope they can bury the hatchet and be friends again some day. Hell, even Kobe and Shaq are civil these days.
I loved that team, hang the banners IMO
Good for Jalen. But it's all for naught because Webber will never own up to anything he did. I've long since stopped caring about a Fab Five reunion. I'm far prouder of the current team and program under Beilein than I ever was of the team in the early 90's. The championships and Finals appearances of the recent teams were all accomplished as a team and program - not as a bunch of 5 individual guys with their own separate persona.
Well you should care, because if there ever were a reunion and they got along again, the spotlight would be back in a big way on the program, and would blow past MSU, who'd go back in our shadow. They were nothing without our program imploding.
Good luck ever getting Webber to own up to anything. That guy treats UM like a gangrene-infested limb. Sawn off, severed, done away with, and forgotten about.
Whether Webber ever decides to be the bigger man and own up to his mistakes or not, I don’t really care. He played 25 years ago. This program is now far more than just what the Fab Five made it.
See I don’t see that as the case. Beilein has been in contact with Weber on multiple occasions and the guy acknowledges the teams accomplishments all the time. He went to the final four in 2013 and I believe he was there this past final four as well. Point is if he was truly done with Michigan he wouldn’t care at all. It seems like he still loves the team. He has nothing against the current staff. My question is who exactly is he angry at? The athletic director, president, and most if not all the board of regents have changed since his time here. Is he angry at his teammates? The whole situation really confuses me. I wish he would come out and at least say what the issue is. He’s really quiet when it comes to his days here
He went to the ‘13 title game because Rose went on air and very subtly called Webber a pussy if he didn’t show up. Had Rose not done that, I doubt Webber shows to that game.
I do agree in that Webber has no beef with Beilein, the players or staff. I’m sure he wants them to do well. But he will never willingly come back to Ann Arbor. You can take that to the bank. He wants nothing to do with this program anymore. At least not on an active basis. There’s a reason he’s never done an interview about his time here, didn’t do the 30 for 30, and I’m assuming that after the UNC title game, packed up all his shit, left Ann Arbor and has never come back.
My guess is it also just brings up bad memories for him. My guess is he’s never really gotten over the UNC game and it’s still a really sore spot for him in his life.
Yeah. I'm quite happy that my time at the U (I was there with the Fab Five) wasn't the subject of media scrutiny. Though admittedly 'JFW a drunken moron again.' would likely get boring for the AA news and the Daily.
If someone gave me 500K or whatever when I was 18-21 I'd be dead due to testosterone poisoning exacerbated by massive resource availability and poor impulse control.
I didn't realize there was a dog-whistle comments function on MGoBlog 3.0.
So he took money, I don't blame him at all
If Jalen loves Chris so much, and wants to reconcile so bad, why doesn't he get on a plane, fly to where Chris is at for one of his gigs, or his home, and go see him in private and have a talk. Instead of trying to build a public spectacle about it, have a private talk first, lay some ground work.
Not everything has to be done in front of the media.
It’s possible he’s tried that. Regardless it needs to happen in front of the cameras this is not something that can be settled in secret. I would want nothing more than to see the five of them reunited with coach Fisher at Crisler Center at halftime of a game. I just don’t see that happening ever unfortunately
Jalen is the man but he sure does love to talk about the Fab Five maybe a bit, too much?
Does anyone do anything privately anymore?
Personally will never buy in to Chris Weber. He looked out for himself over team and that is when he lost me for good. I feel the same way about Barry Sanders. He didn't even notify the Lions he was retiring. They had to find out from his dad. Very weak!?
As for Barry Sanders, I don't know that I would judge it too harshly. While it was kind of weird to announce one's retirement to your hometown paper rather than your team, the Lions were not terribly reasonable with him in the ensuing lawsuit. If you're an NFL running back, I don't begrudge you a bit of selfishness about your health, but Sanders probably could have found a better way to go about this.
As for Webber, I guess the platitude of "he put himself over team" could be interpreted a lot of ways here and I would be curious to know what your argument is in the case. I guess I don't expect absolute adherence to idealized sports collectivism from anyone, so I need clarification.
Does anyone TRULY care about this?
I’d be more excited to the day in the future where they bring back the 2018 team and celebrate.
The Fab Five can make up all they want. Webber needs to make up with Michigan. Until he apologizes I don’t care to hear him or see him.
Honestly? I am tired of this saga
I prefer to talk of last years team or the 2013 team or ricky green and phil hubbard 1976 team or
The Championship 1989 team to hearing anything of the fab five. As Bobby Knight said, they never won a thing, I agree.
Short shorts, to long shorts, back to shorter shorts.
Can someone show me evidence of Webber taking any money? He very well may have but where is the proof or evidence? How does anyone know? As far as I know the feds never proved anything other than forcing Webber to admit that he lied to them.
Not sure what evidence you want, but I was around those guys at the time. It happened. Not worth debating.
Are people really clamoring for a "reunion" of a team that led to massive sanctions and didn't win Michigan anything of note along the way? And it would just be a self-serving couple of guys trying to white wash the past.
The Fab 5 was awesome on the court and screwed over Michigan for over a decade. Yes other guys were cheating, but Michigan was dumb/unlucky enough to be caught rather flagrantly, and they were punished. Why anyone wants to relive that is beyond me.
Webber’s pissed because the fab five were exploited. Too many of you are so quick to jump to judgement. Ed Martin was not a booster for the University. He gave kids stuff regardless of where they went to school. He was then desperate to launder the money he was earning through his numbers ring. Webber DID make tens of millions for the university.
Even if he did give Webber money it wasn’t in exchange for Chris going to UM. If Ed Martin wanted to give Webber money knowing he was a bonafide future star then that’s on him. The problem was it was laundered.
The Martin scandal is the most misunderstood scandal ever. We way overpaid for our mistakes. The only mistake was letting Martin get close to the program but that was tough because he already had relationships with some players and P Watson. Fisher had a tough task of playing by the rules and pleasing his young stars.
And for those of you saying “they didn’t win anything” please...
They earned their place in history.
Hang the banners.