Fab Five would have been treated better at Michigan State, Jalen Rose says
Football is king at Michigan. Even Fab Five members Chris Webber and Jalen Rose can attest to that. That’s not the case at Michigan State, where Rose claimed the famed quintet would be treated differently at the rival university “because that’s a basketball school.
” Rose made that statement during a wide-ranging 40-minute interview along with Webber on TNT Sports’ “The Steam Room” with Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley. When Barkley talked about his time at Auburn, he shared how the basketball team was treated worse than the football team. He used the dining hall as an example, with the football team getting to eat steak and lobster while the other sports teams had hamburgers and hot dogs, he claimed.
Barkley asked Webber and Rose if they experienced the same thing during their college days in Ann Arbor. “The first year I felt that way,” said Webber, whose time at Michigan overlapped with Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard and Big Ten champion football teams. “My time at Michigan was great.
… But we made a lot of comments, especially Jalen, about what we were given to eat then. ” Then Rose echoed his fellow Detroiter Webber before stating how things would be different had the Fab Five played at Michigan State. “I complained the whole time.
And Michigan is 100% a football school,” Rose said. “And by the way, respectfully — and I'm a season-ticket holder and I'm an alum and Fab Five, shout out to Dusty May I love him very much, and I think we're going to win (the NCAA Tournament) this year — but to this day, Michigan still hasn't acknowledged the Fab Five and our banners are not up. “That's definitely a football school and I know people are not going to like this — if we went to Michigan State, they would treat us different because that's a basketball school.