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But those young ones ran their mouths excessively. That explains why Bobby Hurley wore a T-shirt after Duke's title in 1992 that said "You can TALK the game, but can you PLAY the game?"

Snarky to some ... but the so-called Fab Five deserved that one.

 

Of course that Duke team scored very high in the Insufferable Prick Quotient.

Christian Laettner is still one of those guys you just want to punch in the face whenever you see him.

 

And in Detroit, Mitch Albom weeps uncontrollably.

 

The standard of proof on the "Chris Webber dumped the game" theory above seems a bit thin.

 

What's meatier? Webber dumping the game or ARod using 'roids?

 

Sean Connery: "Did you miss that free throw, or did you MISS it?"
Derek Luke: "That's not exactly a soup question, is it?"

 

Webber was the nation's top recruit coming in ... he was the big "money" recruit (pun intended).
In all seriousness though, as much as Webber seemed to have a solid reception back in Detroit during his stint there last year ... I don't think he'll ever be fully forgiven in that state for what he did.
Banners or not though, you can't tell a kid who grew up in the 80s and 90s in Michigan that the Fab Five never existed. What a show.

 

His old school always said that if it was proven Webber took money in high school, they would forfeit the three state championships.
During the Ed Martin trial, it came out.
headmaster said "We're still not voiding the titles."

 

Did the Fab 5 even win the Big 10?

 

Nope. I believe Jim Jackson and Co. won it when they were freshmen and Glenn Robinson and Purdue won it when they were sophomores.

Michigan did beat Jackson and Ohio State in the regional final to get to Minneapolis though.

The Big 10 was fucking loaded back then.

 

If anybody wants to scroll through the Free Press microfilm files for the spring of 1987, there was a full-page feature story, written IIRC by Mick McCabe (still the Freep's prep-sports guru today) centering on Webber's recruitment out of 8th grade to attend high school. (The top contenders being, again IIRC, Detroit SW, coached by Ed Martin's buddy-pal Perry Watson; Allen Park Inter-City Baptist; Detroit DePorres; Orchard Lake St. Mary's, and Country Day).

Ed Martin had already been in the picture for a couple of years -- he latched onto Webber in 5th or 6th grade.