RIP Rick Majerus

I think the clock on this site is screwed up. I believe it's set to Pacific time.

 

1) I work with a guy who went to Ball State at the same time as Whitlock when Majerus coached there. Somehow, the three ended up in a class or a lecture together and the two were antagonists at first, but ended up getting along famously. (Whitlock, help me out here). Stories my buddy told were fascinating.
2) Mid-late 80s, Ball State is playing at Minnesota in a Thanksgiving break game. I get tickets and take my dad. During the course of the game, Majerus takes off his sweater, which disappears by the end of the game. Someone asks him about it in the postgame and his response was "It's OK. Somewhere, there's a homeless family of four now living in that sweater...."
RIP

 

Dang. Sorry to hear about this.

Some may remember, but Majerus followed the late Al McGuire as head coach at Marquette in the late 1970s.

 

Weird. Time for every post is correct on my end.

 

I remember that. And didn't Ndiaye end up later admitting that he made it up after Majerus forced his hand?

Majerus handled that situation masterfully.

 

I covered a road game when he was at Ball State. A young child of an administrator at the host school was playing with a superball behind the Ball State bench, and the child's parents weren't paying close attention. Well, the ball bounces and hits Majerus, who catches it, spins and fires it at the administrator, hitting her in the face.

I didn't know a guy that big could move that fast, or that gracefully.

RIP to a memorable coach.

 

Incorrect. Hank Raymonds followed Al McGuire in the late 70s. Majerus followed Raymond in the 80s.

Majerus was a McGuire assistant, including on the 77 title team, though.

 

Aww, man. That truly sucks.

What a guy. Always a great story. RIP, Coach.

 

RIP

I think I remember reading some wild stories about this guy on this site.

 

AP moved a story.

 

Sent flowers

 

As does USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2012/12/01/st-louis-utah-coach-rick-majerus-dead-at-64/1739971/