Rick Majerus RIP

[ort5210]

Wes Hodkiewicz ‏@WesHod
Lots of sadness today across all sports but even more so with the death of Rick Majerus, who always made time to take calls from the P-G

[GGGG]

Damn.  Always was a Warrior.

[Chicos' Buzz Scandal Countdown]

Wow. RIP

[tower912]

RIP, Rick.   His last two years at MU were my first two.   I interacted with him a couple of times, which was beyond cool to the college freshman me.    God's blessings upon you. 

[Goose]

RIP Rick. Thank you for all the laughs.

[Warriors88]

Basketball lifer.  Won everywhere he coached in college.  Very sad to hear
this news.

[79Warrior]

Al, Hank, Rick...so many memories!  A true Warrior.

[nyg]

ESPN just had it on screen.  64 years old. 

[Dr. Blackheart]

With his education background...one of the best teachers ever.  Certain HOF.  The guy could break down every play in perfect detail.  Made winners out of every team he coached...mostly way overachieving. Second most career wins of any coach at Marquette next to Hank.  RIP

[Sir Lawrence]

RIP

[jmayer1]

RIP coach

[4everwarriors]

The stuff legends are made of.

[ecompt]

A very, very nice man who probably wasn't ready for the MU job when he took it but went on to become of the game's best college coaches. RIP

[MURFC]

I am bummed out, a sad day indeed.  RIP coach.

[Blackhat]

Awesome basketball mind.    RIP Coach Majerus.

[Dawson Rental]

"Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war."

                                                                         - Al McGuire

[ecc5051]

RIP old friend. Broken heart.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/01/17/majerus/index.html

[Knight Commission]

Perhaps the epitome of MU basketball. A native, alum, and coach.

[ATWizJr]

"Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war."

                                                                         - Al McGuire

you said it.

[MURFC]

Franchilla's comments on the passing of Majerus

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8700072/rick-majerus-college-basketball-coach-dies-64

[ChicosBailBonds]

A month ago you called Rick a huge assh*le.

STOP IT! 

We're all going to die, every one of us.  Does that mean things said about people when they are living should never be said?  There has been enough calling of many people here that and worse over the years...you can play that game forever.

RIP Rick.

[MattyWarrior]

RIP coach. Now you can join your parents.

[golden goose]

One of Marquette's graduates and a great supporter of the principals of the school has traveled to another place.  Always a big man; who cared for his friends and players.  Believed that feeding his players wasn't a violation of the NCAA rules but rather a requirement to his religion.
A 1968/69/70 playground teammate of mine during the Tosa summer league that included future NBA All Stars.  The start of his coaching tenure that consisted of Freddie Brown, Jeff Webb, Johnny Johnson and other NBA drafted players.  Set the best pick of anyone I knew.  He had the body of a football guard and a basketball IQ that would become legendary.  He took what Hank and Al knew and advanced it to a new level from St. Sebstian Grade School, Marquette High, MU, Ball State, tah and finally St. Louis.
He was responsible for the opportunity for me to go to MUand play there. Thanks Rick and hopefully we will meet again and I'll bring the butter burgers.  The game has lost a treasure; but his philosophy and ideas will stay in the game forever.

Number 31

[The Lens]

I've had the fortune to share many meals with Rick in the past 8 years. Many times he'd order nothing more than a salad, but he loved the idea of sharing. He was incredibly well read; he was curious and an intellectual.  In many ways he was a renaissance man.   There'd be meals where we'd never know he coached "ball" and there were meals where he'd be talking 100% about juco talent in Georgia or big men in china (usually at Jings).  I got to see first hand the incredible respect Kwamain Mitchell had for him.  Kwamain revered him.  Rick was a special guy, RIP.

[77ncaachamps]

An MU legend joins the stars in heaven.

These always make me laugh:

To Jay Bilas, wearing a polo shirt rather than the traditional Hawaiian shirt while covering a tournament in Hawaii...
"Jay, only a guy who gets out of the shower to take a piss would wear a shirt like that."


"I'm not a big Gay guy."



"In the late 1990s with Utah, we were in a regional, and coach [Al] McGuire was there and I asked him to talk to my team. He talked to them and then asked for any questions. Someone said to him, "How good was coach as a player?'' He said, "Let me explain something to you, 'We had an Indian mascot named Willie Wampum when coach played. I would have put the mascot before I put coach in the game."


RIP, Coach Majerus.

And to all of you, read MY LIFE ON A NAPKIN. Great, easy read.