When all else failed, they nailed gangster Al Capone for income tax evasion. The government is pretty adept in that department, though it falls short in other categories.
Hope somebody at the Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to serve penalty papers on Chris Webber and any other member of the Michigan basketball program who profited handsomely through booster Ed Martin.
Sacramento pro star Webber, members of his family and other Wolverine cagers reportedly got something like $266,000 under the table prior to and during their careers. It’s so bad the Michigan administration already has taken itself to the woodshed in hopes of lightening the blows of the hammer the NCAA is getting ready to slam down.
How much money have you and I had to pay the IRS to compensate for the taxes the Wooferines didn’t pay? Anyone who got any of the rake-off needs to be brought to the table and shaken down. I’ve always felt that way about collegians who take illegal funds.
Yet generally we’re not talking about the kind of money that’s being discussed in regard to Michigan. If the back taxes are collected, our contributions might not have to be so high next April.
Michigan’s so-called Fab Five included Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson for the 1992 and 1993 seasons. Roy Williams worked hard to sign King out of Texas. Jimmy opted for joining the trash-talking Woofie Bloomer Boys. Wonder if King got a few bucks on the sly from Sleazeball Martin? As for the coaches and the other players indicating “we had no idea what was going on,” come on, guys. You see all those perks and figure Mommy and Daddy are footing all the bills? Most likely you find out how you can get into the act.
We hear a lot about vacating or forfeiting games the Wooferines won and taking down championship banners they sent up to the rafters in Ann Arbor. Chuckle, chuckle, Michigan finished second and third in the Big Ten during the Fraud Five reign, and second to Duke and then North Carolina in the NCAA finals. I think they won a couple minor tournament titles somewhere, but no big stuff.
What a shame it if the unenlightened Steve Fisher’s showoffs had won, denied Carolina’s Dean Smith his second college title, then had to be vacated as champions. Thank heaven the Dookies and the Tar Heels prevailed in 1992 and 1993. The Phony Five then broke up via departures for the pros. As I recall, the less-skilled Price and Jackson stayed; Webber, Howard and Rose bolted.
Sugar daddies, agents and such were finagling around with collegians long before.
When Kansas was in the 1971 Final Four, Villanova, Western Kentucky and Long Beach State’s participation in the tourney was vacated. Main problem was agents, tainting the likes of ‘Nova’s Howard Porter and W-Kentucky’s Jim McDaniels. Happened again in 1972 with LaFayette, Long Beach State and Minnesota drawing “vacations”. Then again in 1973 when LaFayette, Long Beach State and Austin Peay were rendered invisible as far as the tourney is concerned.
Long Beach State, hmmm, does the name of Jerry Tarkanian mean anythin’ to ya?
But again, the sad thing is that the Webbers and such have moved on and who gets the fecal end of the stick? Current coach Tommy Amaker and recruits who had nothing to do with the crookery.
However, if the NCAA would figure out a way to knock the financial socks off a school that’s involved in such crimes, it might help. Suppose Michigan had to pay $500,000 or so in penalty, beyond the NCAA tourney money it plans to refund. A stiff assessment against the school or its athletic department might encourage a little more chastity and oversight, you think?
That in mind, consider this gem from the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 18, 1902: “The University (KU) team is training hard for the game with Missouri on Thanksgiving. The trouble with the Haskell game (KU was walloped 24-5) was that the university relied too much on a false scent. An Indian who failed to make the team at Haskell is supposed to have given the signals to the University team and the latter relied too much on that. It happened the Indians heard they had been betrayed and changed their signals. This threw the university team into the air and disarranged their plans. From now on the university team will rely wholly on ability and will play ball for all there is in it. Unless Mr. Curtis (coach Arthur) trains a team that will win over Missouri, he may as well pack his grip.”
KU beat MU at Kansas City, 17-5, and finished the season with a 6-4 record. Still, Curtis was replaced as coach by Harrison Weeks before the 1903 season. Under Weeks, the Jayhawks were 6-3 in ’03. Would those marks look great right now!
Then the Golden Age. Lawrence’s own Bert Kennedy, dentist-coach, took over in 1904; in seven seasons he produced a scintillating 53-9-4 record, including a gleaming 9-0 in 1908. Nobody has come close to Bert’s 1904-10 reign at KU; probably nobody ever will. Fielding Yost posted a 10-0 here in 1899 before going to Michigan, but Kennedy takes the cake.
When all else failed, they nailed gangster Al Capone for income tax evasion. The government is pretty adept in that department, though it falls short in other categories.
Hope somebody at the Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to serve penalty papers on Chris Webber and any other member of the Michigan basketball program who profited handsomely through booster Ed Martin.
Sacramento pro star Webber, members of his family and other Wolverine cagers reportedly got something like $266,000 under the table prior to and during their careers. It’s so bad the Michigan administration already has taken itself to the woodshed in hopes of lightening the blows of the hammer the NCAA is getting ready to slam down.
How much money have you and I had to pay the IRS to compensate for the taxes the Wooferines didn’t pay? Anyone who got any of the rake-off needs to be brought to the table and shaken down. I’ve always felt that way about collegians who take illegal funds.
Yet generally we’re not talking about the kind of money that’s being discussed in regard to Michigan. If the back taxes are collected, our contributions might not have to be so high next April.
Michigan’s so-called Fab Five included Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson for the 1992 and 1993 seasons. Roy Williams worked hard to sign King out of Texas. Jimmy opted for joining the trash-talking Woofie Bloomer Boys. Wonder if King got a few bucks on the sly from Sleazeball Martin? As for the coaches and the other players indicating “we had no idea what was going on,” come on, guys. You see all those perks and figure Mommy and Daddy are footing all the bills? Most likely you find out how you can get into the act.
We hear a lot about vacating or forfeiting games the Wooferines won and taking down championship banners they sent up to the rafters in Ann Arbor. Chuckle, chuckle, Michigan finished second and third in the Big Ten during the Fraud Five reign, and second to Duke and then North Carolina in the NCAA finals. I think they won a couple minor tournament titles somewhere, but no big stuff.
What a shame it if the unenlightened Steve Fisher’s showoffs had won, denied Carolina’s Dean Smith his second college title, then had to be vacated as champions. Thank heaven the Dookies and the Tar Heels prevailed in 1992 and 1993. The Phony Five then broke up via departures for the pros. As I recall, the less-skilled Price and Jackson stayed; Webber, Howard and Rose bolted.
Sugar daddies, agents and such were finagling around with collegians long before.
When Kansas was in the 1971 Final Four, Villanova, Western Kentucky and Long Beach State’s participation in the tourney was vacated. Main problem was agents, tainting the likes of ‘Nova’s Howard Porter and W-Kentucky’s Jim McDaniels. Happened again in 1972 with LaFayette, Long Beach State and Minnesota drawing “vacations”. Then again in 1973 when LaFayette, Long Beach State and Austin Peay were rendered invisible as far as the tourney is concerned.
Long Beach State, hmmm, does the name of Jerry Tarkanian mean anythin’ to ya?
But again, the sad thing is that the Webbers and such have moved on and who gets the fecal end of the stick? Current coach Tommy Amaker and recruits who had nothing to do with the crookery.
However, if the NCAA would figure out a way to knock the financial socks off a school that’s involved in such crimes, it might help. Suppose Michigan had to pay $500,000 or so in penalty, beyond the NCAA tourney money it plans to refund. A stiff assessment against the school or its athletic department might encourage a little more chastity and oversight, you think?
That in mind, consider this gem from the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 18, 1902: “The University (KU) team is training hard for the game with Missouri on Thanksgiving. The trouble with the Haskell game (KU was walloped 24-5) was that the university relied too much on a false scent. An Indian who failed to make the team at Haskell is supposed to have given the signals to the University team and the latter relied too much on that. It happened the Indians heard they had been betrayed and changed their signals. This threw the university team into the air and disarranged their plans. From now on the university team will rely wholly on ability and will play ball for all there is in it. Unless Mr. Curtis (coach Arthur) trains a team that will win over Missouri, he may as well pack his grip.”
KU beat MU at Kansas City, 17-5, and finished the season with a 6-4 record. Still, Curtis was replaced as coach by Harrison Weeks before the 1903 season. Under Weeks, the Jayhawks were 6-3 in ’03. Would those marks look great right now!
Then the Golden Age. Lawrence’s own Bert Kennedy, dentist-coach, took over in 1904; in seven seasons he produced a scintillating 53-9-4 record, including a gleaming 9-0 in 1908. Nobody has come close to Bert’s 1904-10 reign at KU; probably nobody ever will. Fielding Yost posted a 10-0 here in 1899 before going to Michigan, but Kennedy takes the cake.
When all else failed, they nailed gangster Al Capone for income tax evasion. The government is pretty adept in that department, though it falls short in other categories.
Hope somebody at the Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to serve penalty papers on Chris Webber and any other member of the Michigan basketball program who profited handsomely through booster Ed Martin.
Sacramento pro star Webber, members of his family and other Wolverine cagers reportedly got something like $266,000 under the table prior to and during their careers. It’s so bad the Michigan administration already has taken itself to the woodshed in hopes of lightening the blows of the hammer the NCAA is getting ready to slam down.
How much money have you and I had to pay the IRS to compensate for the taxes the Wooferines didn’t pay? Anyone who got any of the rake-off needs to be brought to the table and shaken down. I’ve always felt that way about collegians who take illegal funds.
Yet generally we’re not talking about the kind of money that’s being discussed in regard to Michigan. If the back taxes are collected, our contributions might not have to be so high next April.
Michigan’s so-called Fab Five included Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson for the 1992 and 1993 seasons. Roy Williams worked hard to sign King out of Texas. Jimmy opted for joining the trash-talking Woofie Bloomer Boys. Wonder if King got a few bucks on the sly from Sleazeball Martin? As for the coaches and the other players indicating “we had no idea what was going on,” come on, guys. You see all those perks and figure Mommy and Daddy are footing all the bills? Most likely you find out how you can get into the act.
We hear a lot about vacating or forfeiting games the Wooferines won and taking down championship banners they sent up to the rafters in Ann Arbor. Chuckle, chuckle, Michigan finished second and third in the Big Ten during the Fraud Five reign, and second to Duke and then North Carolina in the NCAA finals. I think they won a couple minor tournament titles somewhere, but no big stuff.
What a shame it if the unenlightened Steve Fisher’s showoffs had won, denied Carolina’s Dean Smith his second college title, then had to be vacated as champions. Thank heaven the Dookies and the Tar Heels prevailed in 1992 and 1993. The Phony Five then broke up via departures for the pros. As I recall, the less-skilled Price and Jackson stayed; Webber, Howard and Rose bolted.
Sugar daddies, agents and such were finagling around with collegians long before.
When Kansas was in the 1971 Final Four, Villanova, Western Kentucky and Long Beach State’s participation in the tourney was vacated. Main problem was agents, tainting the likes of ‘Nova’s Howard Porter and W-Kentucky’s Jim McDaniels. Happened again in 1972 with LaFayette, Long Beach State and Minnesota drawing “vacations”. Then again in 1973 when LaFayette, Long Beach State and Austin Peay were rendered invisible as far as the tourney is concerned.
Long Beach State, hmmm, does the name of Jerry Tarkanian mean anythin’ to ya?
But again, the sad thing is that the Webbers and such have moved on and who gets the fecal end of the stick? Current coach Tommy Amaker and recruits who had nothing to do with the crookery.
However, if the NCAA would figure out a way to knock the financial socks off a school that’s involved in such crimes, it might help. Suppose Michigan had to pay $500,000 or so in penalty, beyond the NCAA tourney money it plans to refund. A stiff assessment against the school or its athletic department might encourage a little more chastity and oversight, you think?
That in mind, consider this gem from the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 18, 1902: “The University (KU) team is training hard for the game with Missouri on Thanksgiving. The trouble with the Haskell game (KU was walloped 24-5) was that the university relied too much on a false scent. An Indian who failed to make the team at Haskell is supposed to have given the signals to the University team and the latter relied too much on that. It happened the Indians heard they had been betrayed and changed their signals. This threw the university team into the air and disarranged their plans. From now on the university team will rely wholly on ability and will play ball for all there is in it. Unless Mr. Curtis (coach Arthur) trains a team that will win over Missouri, he may as well pack his grip.”
KU beat MU at Kansas City, 17-5, and finished the season with a 6-4 record. Still, Curtis was replaced as coach by Harrison Weeks before the 1903 season. Under Weeks, the Jayhawks were 6-3 in ’03. Would those marks look great right now!
Then the Golden Age. Lawrence’s own Bert Kennedy, dentist-coach, took over in 1904; in seven seasons he produced a scintillating 53-9-4 record, including a gleaming 9-0 in 1908. Nobody has come close to Bert’s 1904-10 reign at KU; probably nobody ever will. Fielding Yost posted a 10-0 here in 1899 before going to Michigan, but Kennedy takes the cake.
When all else failed, they nailed gangster Al Capone for income tax evasion. The government is pretty adept in that department, though it falls short in other categories.
Hope somebody at the Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to serve penalty papers on Chris Webber and any other member of the Michigan basketball program who profited handsomely through booster Ed Martin.
Sacramento pro star Webber, members of his family and other Wolverine cagers reportedly got something like $266,000 under the table prior to and during their careers. It’s so bad the Michigan administration already has taken itself to the woodshed in hopes of lightening the blows of the hammer the NCAA is getting ready to slam down.
How much money have you and I had to pay the IRS to compensate for the taxes the Wooferines didn’t pay? Anyone who got any of the rake-off needs to be brought to the table and shaken down. I’ve always felt that way about collegians who take illegal funds.
Yet generally we’re not talking about the kind of money that’s being discussed in regard to Michigan. If the back taxes are collected, our contributions might not have to be so high next April.
Michigan’s so-called Fab Five included Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson for the 1992 and 1993 seasons. Roy Williams worked hard to sign King out of Texas. Jimmy opted for joining the trash-talking Woofie Bloomer Boys. Wonder if King got a few bucks on the sly from Sleazeball Martin? As for the coaches and the other players indicating “we had no idea what was going on,” come on, guys. You see all those perks and figure Mommy and Daddy are footing all the bills? Most likely you find out how you can get into the act.
We hear a lot about vacating or forfeiting games the Wooferines won and taking down championship banners they sent up to the rafters in Ann Arbor. Chuckle, chuckle, Michigan finished second and third in the Big Ten during the Fraud Five reign, and second to Duke and then North Carolina in the NCAA finals. I think they won a couple minor tournament titles somewhere, but no big stuff.
What a shame it if the unenlightened Steve Fisher’s showoffs had won, denied Carolina’s Dean Smith his second college title, then had to be vacated as champions. Thank heaven the Dookies and the Tar Heels prevailed in 1992 and 1993. The Phony Five then broke up via departures for the pros. As I recall, the less-skilled Price and Jackson stayed; Webber, Howard and Rose bolted.
Sugar daddies, agents and such were finagling around with collegians long before.
When Kansas was in the 1971 Final Four, Villanova, Western Kentucky and Long Beach State’s participation in the tourney was vacated. Main problem was agents, tainting the likes of ‘Nova’s Howard Porter and W-Kentucky’s Jim McDaniels. Happened again in 1972 with LaFayette, Long Beach State and Minnesota drawing “vacations”. Then again in 1973 when LaFayette, Long Beach State and Austin Peay were rendered invisible as far as the tourney is concerned.
Long Beach State, hmmm, does the name of Jerry Tarkanian mean anythin’ to ya?
But again, the sad thing is that the Webbers and such have moved on and who gets the fecal end of the stick? Current coach Tommy Amaker and recruits who had nothing to do with the crookery.
However, if the NCAA would figure out a way to knock the financial socks off a school that’s involved in such crimes, it might help. Suppose Michigan had to pay $500,000 or so in penalty, beyond the NCAA tourney money it plans to refund. A stiff assessment against the school or its athletic department might encourage a little more chastity and oversight, you think?
That in mind, consider this gem from the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 18, 1902: “The University (KU) team is training hard for the game with Missouri on Thanksgiving. The trouble with the Haskell game (KU was walloped 24-5) was that the university relied too much on a false scent. An Indian who failed to make the team at Haskell is supposed to have given the signals to the University team and the latter relied too much on that. It happened the Indians heard they had been betrayed and changed their signals. This threw the university team into the air and disarranged their plans. From now on the university team will rely wholly on ability and will play ball for all there is in it. Unless Mr. Curtis (coach Arthur) trains a team that will win over Missouri, he may as well pack his grip.”
KU beat MU at Kansas City, 17-5, and finished the season with a 6-4 record. Still, Curtis was replaced as coach by Harrison Weeks before the 1903 season. Under Weeks, the Jayhawks were 6-3 in ’03. Would those marks look great right now!
Then the Golden Age. Lawrence’s own Bert Kennedy, dentist-coach, took over in 1904; in seven seasons he produced a scintillating 53-9-4 record, including a gleaming 9-0 in 1908. Nobody has come close to Bert’s 1904-10 reign at KU; probably nobody ever will. Fielding Yost posted a 10-0 here in 1899 before going to Michigan, but Kennedy takes the cake.