Paul Mainieri making his retirement announcement on Friday at Alex Box Stadium.
Mainieri Steps Down With Usual Amount Of Class
ColumnsBATON ROUGE, La. — I’ll never forget the moment I found out Paul Mainieri was one of the nicest guys in our profession. I stopped by in the summer of 2009 to visit with him, middle of the hot, thick, humid summer. It felt like the sun was about three miles from the LSU campus.
I was about three minutes into my visit with coach Mainieri in his office and he got a call on his cell phone. He looked down at it and immediately said, “Eric I’m so sorry, but I really really have to take this call.”
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