Comments on: Rumeal Speaks His Mind

By: jg

jg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:39:21 +0000

Let’s not act like the players and coaches involved are the bad guys. Is what they did wrong? From the ncaa’s standpoint yes. Everybody was cheating under the ncaa standards, but our A.D. decided to take the “high-road” and completely disown all those guys and stripped them of all their great accomplishments while they were on campus. The University could have fought it just like everybody else did if they had wanted to bad enough.

By: Ken in Las Vegas

Ken in Las Vegas — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:49:07 +0000

Well he may not have NEEDED that money to help his family, but I’m sure it helped his family and was a part of why he took it.

By: Bando Calrissian

Bando Calrissian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:56:14 +0000

Chris Webber needed that money to help his family?

You serious, Clark?

By: jamie mac

jamie mac — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:27:43 +0000

Raw Recruits.

A great book about hoops recruiting published in 1989/1990 range, penned by Armen Keyteyian and Alexander Wolff.

A must read.

One of their assertions was if players at a program stick around all four years its because going to the NBA would be a pay cut.

Hyperbole, sure…..but doesn’t Rumeal’s comments about 9 pros on the roster not turning pro lend a lot of credence to that theory.

By: jmblue

jmblue — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:17:06 +0000

Huh? Players have been taking money under the table for a LONG time. It’s an open secret, for instance, that Wooden’s UCLA program was dirty. Just a couple of years before the Ed Martin scandal, OSU got nailed by the NCAA and its program imploded. Kentucky got busted during the 1980s. SEC football programs get in trouble constantly. Michigan basketball was far from the first or last to experience this fate. Anyway, our real problem wasn’t so much the scandal/investigation as that we made one of the worst coaching hires ever (Brian Ellerbe) after we fired Fisher.

By: Ken in Vegas

Ken in Vegas — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:06:11 +0000

I would also be happy to have Steve Fisher in the house or any of the Fab Five members at that. I followed Chris Webber’s career obsessively, even though he was a big part of our program’s deterioration. I just can’t dwell on an 18 year old kid taking some money that can help his family when he was probably assured that it would never hurt anybody anyway. I don’t see that as any different than my decision to drink underage, which I was arrested for when I was 18. Kids who take money now should be treated a little differently because they know what potential consequences are because they have examples from history, but as far as I know Michigan was really the first team to be made an example of in what was probably a pretty common underground activity in those days.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:40:30 +0000

I will welcome Steve Fisher with full heart.

By: ohmigods

ohmigods — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:38:22 +0000

those who don’t remember the past are bound to repeat it

By: AG2

AG2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:01:24 +0000

Would Steve Fisher even get a positive reaction from the fans if he accepted the invitation? Heck I don’t even think Bill Frieder would.

By: Ky Fox

Ky Fox — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:20:19 +0000

No I dont care. Bring the 89′ team in for the celebration, honor the team and be done with it. There is nothing better than to move forward and let the past be the past. The media asked the question right? Why not ask questions about the 88′ 89′ season…isnt that what we are exonerating? It makes no difference anyway, its just my opinion in that I like to think of the past as the past while I hope for the future. “Dont let yesterday use up today” Once again, just my opinion.