Horst Report Time Warp:1994 Last Time Michigan was in the Elite 8

     Do you remember the short- shorts basketball players use to wear?!  Like John Stockton, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Dr. J and shit?!  From the beginning of basketball, players just wore basically boxer athletic shorts.  All the way through the 80's and up into the 90's.
Yea those ones!
     Then came The Fab Five.  Five young men, 2 from Detroit, 1 from Chicago, and 2 from Texas, put on some longer ones, and the shorts on basketball players, young and hold you see, began with them.  On Feb. 2 1992, the first basketball game the Fab Five started together, they scored every single point for the University Of Michigan, and they helped change the face of basketball.  Though it is credited to Michael Jordan in the 80's.  He did hem his shorts a few inches longer than the NBA regulation.  But no doubt about it, the Fab Five flaunted it, and that's when that look became popular.  Jalen Rose said, he wasn't trying to make a fashion statement.
"They were comfortable and easier to run in.  Coach (Steve Fisher) never said that I couldn't wear 'em in practice, so we (Chris Weber) left em' on for a game.  Next thing you know, the whole team was wearing them, and we were in the news, not for basketball, but for how our shorts looked!  I was like 'you've gotta be kidding me!'" he stated in a 2007 interview.
A lot of critics said they looked "gangster and thuggish", and that it was setting a bad example for the youth.  Yep there you go!  Tell the kids "no" and the kids love it.  This was the trend so much back then, that this is how the modern day look is now.
     At that time I was all hyped up about basketball, and the Fab Five and Michael Jordan were my favorites to watch and follow.  Yes I was young, 9 at the time, but I was playing and wanted to get better.  So I watched Jalen Rose at Michigan, he was a point guard, and so was I so, he was my favorite player.  Then he got drafted by the Nuggets, and that was awesome!!
     The Fab Five were good, they were fast, alley ooping, nailing 3's and playing great defense.  They seemed unstoppable.  2 years before they arrived at Michigan, the Wolverines won the national championship in basketball, so expectations were high.  Well Jalen and the boys stepped up to the task, and made it all the way to the Final Four, and played in the Championship 2 years in a row.  The first year they got spanked by Duke 71-51.  The next year they played North Carolina.
     That's when Chris Weber called a timeout with seconds left, down by 2, when Michigan didn't have any, resulting in a technical foul.  That sealed it for North Carolina and the Tar Heels won the Championship.  The Wolverines never got that close again, and only one of the Fab Five players won an NBA championship. (Juan Howard w/ Miami 2012).
     Now if you look in the NCAA men's basketball records, that team doesn't exist.  The University of Michigan's men's basketball scandal cost the Wolverines all of there wins that season(1993).  The scandal indicted Chris Weber, and 3 other players for taking over $600,000 from a Michigan booster from 1981-1994.  Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, Juan Howard and Ray Jackson had no part of it, but that team was punished, and they lost almost an entire career built off that team because Weber first lied about receiving money, then later confessed.
     So let's see if this Michigan team led by Trey Burke, and Mitch McGary, can exercise the demons of the past and make it to the Final Four.  We will see today at noon, when they take on the University Of Florida.  My brackets fucked, so let's go Wolverines!!  Shua out!