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... ASUDevils.com - Health concerns to keep Majerus from job The Network NCAA Football NCAA Basketball FB Recruiting BB Recruiting High School RSS HomeHeadlinesMessage BoardsAMPRadioSubscribe March 29, 2006 Health concerns to keep Majerus from job Chris Karpman ASUDevils.com Publisher Health issues will prevent Rick Majerus from becoming Arizona State's next basketball coach, according to sources close to the ESPN analyst and inside the Sun Devil athletic department.

After heavily campaigning for the position for weeks, Majerus accepted a conditional offer pending a background check and medical clearance, but it was determined on Wednesday that he was not sufficiently physically prepared for a return to the coaching ranks.

A source familiar with the discussions between ASU athletic director Lisa Love and Majerus said that concern about Majerus' health and fitness became the lone impediment to a deal ultimately being signed between the two parties.Love met with Majerus on at least two occasions to discuss the position, with the conditional offer made in the second meeting.

Majerus was said to be so excited about the position, he offered to take the job at the same annual salary that was being paid to Rob Evans, approximately $600,000.

Majerus backed out of the USC coaching job less than a week after he was hired in December of 2004, when Love worked at the school, and that along with Majerus' significant health concerns prompted Love to require more stringent m...

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