In their heyday the Fab 5 was in a prime of being the bad guys of the NCAA and being known as the outlaws for how they acted and what music they listened to in the locker room, but the Fab 5 in my eyes and the eyes in the time of change saw that they were the team to be reckoned with in the 90’s with a sweet ball handler in Jalen Rose and 2 all-around players in Chris Webber and Juwan Howard. The team was a gelled machine always clicking on all cylinders when they went to two consecutive NCAA Title games in 92 and 93. In this essay the two main points I would like to state are that the Fab 5 are great guys with the media twisting what they saw in the locker room and out on the court, and how Ed Martin had potentially wrecked and tarnished …show more content…
If we're five black guys at the University of Michigan, and its like, "You have the nerve to jump up in Christian Laettner's face and talk trash? He's God to us. You have black shoes, black socks, bald heads, and long shorts?" Like, that's too much at one time. It wasn't just the media; there were people who really had a sincere hatred because not only did they not like us, but they didn't want their kids to be like us. (Neumann, 2011). In my opinion I feel that for them to be misunderstood and to what they wore on the court helped change the game to where everyone can show a little piece of themselves other than show casing their abilities on the court, and it did open up a new can of worms with the style in question, but it was the start to an era of the Allen Iverson’s to what they wore on the court and how they could portray the different styles that have become of today’s game with Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony just to name a couple of guys that have a style and swagger about them on the court that could have never come about if the Fab 5 wouldn’t have ever changed up how basketball players dress and act to get pumped up before the game. The game when the Fab 5 played I think they were also victimized to being called villains but in the documentary they were asked about it and they embraced it as do some of the NBA players like Lebron James does today but only because they had no other choice …show more content…
In return, the coaching staff regularly makes tickets to basketball games available for Martin. 1992 When Michigan reaches the Final Four, the University receives a limited number of rooms at the team hotel. Fisher makes two of the coveted rooms available to Martin. Martin keeps one room for him, and gives the other room to Webber's father, a violation. 1995 After signing with Michigan, Louis Bullock is introduced to Martin. While the other three violators are from Detroit, Bullock attends high school in Maryland, and doesn't receive benefits until he enrolls at Michigan. Bullock receives about $71,000 from Martin through 1999. August 1996 Martin attempts to place deposits on apartments for Traylor and Bullock. He also offers airline tickets to Puerto Rico to Bullock's parents in order to see a tournament. When Fisher becomes aware of infractions, he has Martin retrieve the deposits and make sure that the airline tickets are not used. But Fisher does not report these infractions to Michigan's athletic administration or compliance office, as he is required to do so. September