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Monson: Stop the player abuse. College coaches should be teachers and motivators, not dictators

Britton Johnsen didn’t know exactly how to answer the question, the one about Rick Majerus and his sometimes extreme and eccentric behavior while he coached — and won, won a lot — at Utah.

Looking back at it, Johnsen, now a full-grown adult who would never put up with that kind of treatment from anyone, was baffled that college athletes — himself included — subject themselves to being treated, at times, as though they are some kind of cattle to be herded, allow themselves to be screamed at, sworn at, belittled, verbally abused, treated in a manner that would never fly in any other setting, short of, perhaps, the military.