Don Shane: Fab Five documentary, controversial but good

If you watched the Fab Five documentary on ESPN last night it was definitely controversial and the brutal honesty of it may have caught you by surprise, but it’s also what made it so good.

You just do not hear players today criticize an opposing player publicly, even if it’s years later. The way the Fab Five players got all over Christian Laettner and that school’s program, they called him “soft" and said they “hated them.”

Jalen Rose went as far as saying, “They don’t recruit players like him at Duke" and if they did he thought they were all "Uncle Toms.” Very strong stuff.

Rip Jalen and the others if you want, agree with them or call it insulting or not true. but I found their honesty and opinions refreshing and powerful. They were not afraid to express themselves.

Jalen was not shy talking about the money he took from Ed Martin. A few thousand dollars for “pizza or a movie.” It amounted to chump change and was illegal, but he didn’t lie to the grand jury about it.

Jalen told the truth as compared to Chris Webber who took $280,000 and lied to the grand jury. To this day Webber has not apologized for what he did and I don’t think he ever will. It means he’ll never have a relationship with Michigan and the banners may never be put back up again.

Let's face it, those five guys changed the culture of college basketball. Teams still wear long baggy shorts, still wear black socks, and a lot of guys shave their heads.

It all started with the Fab Five and I don’t think we’ll ever see five freshman start together again and therefore a group of five will never have the impact on college basketball they had.