01-29-2007, 07:09 PM | #31 | |
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Majerus was malicious to many people in many things, in many different ways. He is not a good person.
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Well, I've heard different angles on the Lance Allred affair. He was an ass, but he was always an ass to all comers, as he demanded perfection. After your playing years, Coach Majerus was there for the guys. I would prefer him to Bobby Knight any day.
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I've never seen or worked with Bobby Knight up close, but based on my interactions with Majerus I'd choose Bobby everytime.
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It would be an interesting study to see which coach had a higher rate of attrition over the years.
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Chris Jackson's dad told me last year that they knew exactly what they were getting when Chris decided to play for Majerus and if they ahd to do it all over again, Chris, his dad and mom would do it the exact same way. Contrary to porpular opinion, Majerus never hid the fact that playing for him was going to be brutal.
What he did to Lance Allred was incredibly indecent, but what bothered me most about the entire article was that it came to be 2 years after Allred had left Utah. If Monson was any kind of man, he would have written it when it happened. But he's a coward and a grudge holder. I agree with Goat and Archaea in the sense that Majerus was a top notch coach and that it was much easier to live with it because he was winning. I don't apologize for nor do I defend his behavior because that's my job to do so. I will, however, say that I'm glad he was at Utah because of what he did for Ute basketball. There are few basketball geniuses and he is one of them. I also agree that Ute fans didn't like Reid because he put a helluva team on the floor. That guy could coach.
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Also, Monson is the bigger coward because he never went to Majerus for any kind of rebuttal or even a comment in his own defense. If that isn't cowardly, I don't know what is. You can surely understand that, can't you?
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01-30-2007, 09:37 AM | #38 |
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Monson's story was so ridiculously one sided and self serving. Yes, what Majerus did was wrong but Monson conveniently left out that Lance Allred was an asshole as well. There was culpability on Lance Allred's side as well, but that certainly did not help with the personal grudge that Monson had against Majerus so he left it out of the story.
Look Monson is an ass for the way he dealt with the Majerus situation. I still remember Monson writing an article claiming that Majerus wrote a letter in praise of Al McGwire, after his death, as a means to grow his national stature. In a sense Monson used the death of Majerus mentor as a chance to get a shot in against Majerus, with no proof of his claim. Majerus wrote that letter as what it claimed to be, a tribute to his mentor. Monson being the grudge holding ass that he is, decided to use a man's death to go after his enemy. That is as bad as anything Majerus ever did. |
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During the weeks after KW said that people who were being critical of him don't know anything about football, Monson proudly beat his chest about taking on Majerus and Karl Malone (though he omitted the fact that neither of them were actually in Utah anymore when he "took them on.") The other thing he did this past year was imply that KW threatened to beat him up by making the comments that he did. That lasted for a few days but never got any legs so Monson dropped it. Then again, PK has a point when he says that people shouldn't take on someone who has an unlimited amount of ink at his disposal...ahh the good ole media!
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