Rick made me realize you can be a special player and person. Rick hammered you on both. He didn’t hammer you on just being a good basketball player. He hammered you on who you are as a human being, socially and everything.
Everyone knows ex-Utah basketball coach Rick Majerus was a walking contradiction.
And everyone knows a story of how obsessive, rude, crude and sentimental he was. Those adjectives clash, but that’s how he was.
It depended on your relationship with him.
Here’s yet another endorsement from a former player, one that loved him: Doc Rivers.