Majerus Article in SI

[xuab]

All I can say about this article is wow...I never knew much about Majerus. It does make me grateful and proud to have Sean as a coach.

Here's a snippet from the long article:

But then, consider this: Of the 80 recruits Majerus signed with the Utes, only 33 survived to play as seniors. Nearly 59% of them transferred or otherwise left early, most unable or unwilling to meet Majerus's exacting standards or endure his mercurial, sometimes crude, even cruel behavior.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/01/17/majerus/index.html?eref=T1

[joebba]

When the Saint Louis president, Father Lawrence Biondi, introduced the Billikens' new basketball coach last April, he tried to invest the press conference with proper Jesuitical gravity by explaining the Latin origin of Majerus's name ("Magnus, meaning great"). Majerus corrected him. "The name is really from Luxembourg," he said, "and I think it means sausage-eater."

Rick Majerus appears in a new ad. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHKB6nQrzM)