![]() Webber left Michigan after two seasons and was the No. (Dad, bringing levity to the situation, apparently had a license plate that read: TIMEOUT). Webber touched on that in his speech, too, and credited father Mayce with helping him get through all the fallout - and there was a whole lot of it - from that moment. Michigan lost both, the second marred by the infamous timeout that Webber called - and that Michigan didn't have. He was Big Ten freshman of the year in 1992 and a consensus All-American in 1993, leading the Wolverines to back-to-back championship games. He headlined a star-studded recruiting class at Michigan, which came to be known as the "Fab Five." Webber went on to star at Detroit Country Day, and was Mr. He told of the sob stories coaches would tell him if he didn't sign with them. Even then, college coaches were after him hard. Webber told stories about the pressures he faced growing up in Detroit, as a 12-year-basketball prodigy. Webber would feel like a Wolverine again if that happened.īut until Michigan does something like that, nothing is going to change.View Gallery: Michigan Sports Hall of Fame 2022 inductees Webber, the player, deserves to have his jersey hanging from the rafters of Michigan’s Crisler Center. ![]() If Michigan really wants to accept Webber as a Wolverine again, they’ll acknowledge what he was on the court. Webber doesn’t need to meet Michigan’s athletic director to feel like he’s part of Michigan again. They are a part of history that should be acknowledged. ![]() They did not get those banners because Martin gave Webber some cash. At the very least, Michigan owes it to the other four members of the Fab Five to put their banners back up. There was a lot of ugly in this whole situation and there were a lot of hurt feelings. "If it's not something that affects their bottom line, they're not going to be in a rush to act." "They can choose to acknowledge what we accomplished regardless of what he does. He is a Michigan legend.Ĭhris Webber not on Chris it's on Michigan," Jalen Rose told the Detroit News. They should realize, whether they want to acknowledge it or not, he’s the best player to ever play for Michigan. They should also realize that Webber made Michigan a whole lot more money than he was ever given by Ed Martin. If Webber decided to donate some money to the school, which he ironically is now allowed to do since the disassociation has ended, I’m sure Coleman and Brandon would be more than willing to take his money. If that’s how Michigan wants to be, fine.Ĭoleman and Brandon can choose not to forgive some men who made a choice a long time ago as kids that almost any kid would have made. “But I think you have to reflect on the larger meaning and that we want to hold ourselves to a higher standard.” “Some day, I won't be president anymore, and maybe someone else will have a different view,” Coleman told The Michigan Daily, the school’s student paper, last year. ![]() University president Mary Sue Coleman took down the Final Four banners Webber helped raise, and as recently as a last year, she made it clear those banners aren’t going back up as long as she’s around. They took every opportunity to turn up their nose at Webber. Those in charge at Michigan felt like they could. Was it a mistake for them to take money? Yes. Webber, Maurice Taylor, Robert Traylor (now deceased) and Louis Bullock were made out to be the bad guys for accepting money from a bad guy in Ed Martin. This disassociation was not Michigan’s doing-it was the NCAA’s. ![]()
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