Ben Johnson is a Disaster

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MennoSota said:
Help is coming in the portal, young one...
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bobmartinfan said:
Gopher season ticket holder since 1993 and I am done. Non competitive and I am over wait for next year. There is no next year. I pay my hard earned money on this crap show. No more. Why would our great inexperienced coach start and give major minutes to this piece of ***+ player - Henley when he knew or should have known he was gone to transfer at seasons end. There is NO chance that the barn will be fun again. Thanks for wrecking the program
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It’ll be great there again. Just gotta clean house of the current high school basketball class AA coaches and hire a bonafide flamethrower.
 


bobmartinfan said:
Ridiculous. There are many second year coaches who were/are successful. It was his job to keep the players that were here two years ago before they transferred than get get good recruits and coach up whatever players he had and he has failed miserably. Let’s ride him for five more years and we can start from scratch each year. How many 14th place finishes in the big ten before you say no more. At least we have many scholarships open to recruit Talen Cooper likes
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The world is coming to an end. The program is being shut down. All is lost. 😏
 

bobmartinfan said:
Gopher season ticket holder since 1993 and I am done. Non competitive and I am over wait for next year. There is no next year. I pay my hard earned money on this crap show. No more. Why would our great inexperienced coach start and give major minutes to this piece of ***+ player - Henley when he knew or should have known he was gone to transfer at seasons end. There is NO chance that the barn will be fun again. Thanks for wrecking the program
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Program wasn’t great when he arrived. He didn’t wreck it. May be involved in putting it into a semi permanent coma, but he didn’t wreck it.
 

bga1 said:
Yeah, I think we all know what the chances of hiring the right coach are. Monson, Tubby, Pitino, BJ. Maybe Tubby was the closest we got and he never once got above .500 in the Big Ten.

Ben is our best bet right now and also our only coach for now. I hope he nails it in the portal and I know you do as well. Personally, I think he has a 5-6 win team right now with Payne, Garcia, JOJ, Carrington and Christie as the core. Needs to get the right guys to make it 8+

And yes, I am assuming some good offseason improvement by both players and coaches.
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Just because we haven't hired the right coach the past few chances doesn't mean we can't do it right next time or we should stop trying. Both Pitino and Johnson were ridiculous reaches for a Big Ten program. We're one competent, experienced coach away from becoming relevant. We need the will and AD to make it happen. We all deserve to be skeptical about whether we have either.
 


Hates Monikers said:
Just because we haven't hired the right coach the past few chances doesn't mean we can't do it right next time or we should stop trying. Both Pitino and Johnson were ridiculous reaches for a Big Ten program. We're one competent, experienced coach away from becoming relevant. We need the will and AD to make it happen. We all deserve to be skeptical about whether we have either.
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You sir, are ridiculous to compare Ben Johnson to Richard Pitino. I’ve been watching Gopher basketball since the Clem Haskins days and I promise you, the Pitino days were better than glen monson, tubby smith, and Ben Johnson. Not sure what y’all are asking for but it seems like insanity to me at this point. Get Johnson out and hire a real basketball coach
 

SonoranGopher1 said:
You sir, are ridiculous to compare Ben Johnson to Richard Pitino. I’ve been watching Gopher basketball since the Clem Haskins days and I promise you, the Pitino days were better than glen monson, tubby smith, and Ben Johnson. Not sure what y’all are asking for but it seems like insanity to me at this point. Get Johnson out and hire a real basketball coach
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?? Was Glen Monson related at all to Dan Mason, the football coach?
 


I have to admit with the Gophers being this terrible I don't even care about college basketball these days. I am not watching the NCAA basketball tournament --- I didn't ever think this was possible even a few years ago. So thanks to the people that ruined Gopher basketball -- you took away something I really enjoyed.
 



SonoranGopher1 said:
You sir, are ridiculous to compare Ben Johnson to Richard Pitino. I’ve been watching Gopher basketball since the Clem Haskins days and I promise you, the Pitino days were better than glen monson, tubby smith, and Ben Johnson. Not sure what y’all are asking for but it seems like insanity to me at this point. Get Johnson out and hire a real basketball coach
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Glen Monson may be a real person, but he has not coached gopher basketball. The Tubby Era was objectively more successful than the Pitino Era.
 

Gold Rush said:
I have to admit with the Gophers being this terrible I don't even care about college basketball these days. I am not watching the NCAA basketball tournament --- I didn't ever think this was possible even a few years ago. So thanks to the people that ruined Gopher basketball -- you took away something I really enjoyed.
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I was thinking the same thing last night, there has been a halo effect on my love for the tournament and the tournament has been a lifelong sports love.
 

Gold Rush said:
I have to admit with the Gophers being this terrible I don't even care about college basketball these days. I am not watching the NCAA basketball tournament --- I didn't ever think this was possible even a few years ago. So thanks to the people that ruined Gopher basketball -- you took away something I really enjoyed.
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bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Glen Monson may be a real person, but he has not coached gopher basketball. The Tubby Era was objectively more successful than the Pitino Era.
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The Tubby era was more successful in wins than the Pitino era. However, that era was very damaging as well. Tubby went 6 years without ever going above .500 in the Big Ten. This further tarnished our program with the perception that even a HOF coach could not win here. IMO it made it even tougher to get a quality coach in here.
 



bga1 said:
The Tubby era was more successful in wins than the Pitino era. However, that era was very damaging as well. Tubby went 6 years without ever going above .500 in the Big Ten. This further tarnished our program with the perception that even a HOF coach could not win here. IMO it made it even tougher to get a quality coach in here.
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I always assumed the reason why Teague had to go so far down his list was related to how Tubby was fired. If I look at a school that has had the limited success we had, and then see that making the tournament and winning a game to get to the round of 32 won't save my job if the AD decides the doesnt think highly of my next recruiting class and thinks I look too disinterested based on the way I sit on my stool on the raised court, that doesnt seem like a very supportive environment. If I'm an up and coming coach, I'm open to a challenge, I'm not open to an environment where I might be fired immediately after having one of the most successful post season outcomes in recent program history.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
I always assumed the reason why Teague had to go so far down his list was related to how Tubby was fired. If I look at a school that has had the limited success we had, and then see that making the tournament and winning a game to get to the round of 32 won't save my job if the AD decides the doesnt think highly of my next recruiting class and thinks I look too disinterested based on the way I sit on my stool on the raised court, that doesnt seem like a very supportive environment. If I'm an up and coming coach, I'm open to a challenge, I'm not open to an environment where I might be fired immediately after having one of the most successful post season outcomes in recent program history.
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I think the turning point with Tubby was probably that the U was unwilling to help him with an ounce of grace for Royce White. Most programs would have worked that one out and given the kid a chance. I don't think he was ever that thrilled here afterwards. That was our shot. I don't know the inside story on the Royce White deal so perhaps the U did the right thing but that team would have been pretty darn good with him and it might have changed the momentum here a lot.

It is possible that Tubby was chafing pretty good with the administration and his attitude and lack of recruiting in the last 2 years sent him packing.
 


This is brutal man.

I’m not that into Battle or Cooper as players, but both hitting the portal?

Feels like we’re just a bad program who has accepted being a bad program.

Though he made a terrible hire, I don’t think Coyle will put up with it much longer.
 

skiumah1 said:
This is brutal man.

I’m not that into Battle or Cooper as players, but both hitting the portal?

Feels like we’re just a bad program who has accepted being a bad program.

Though he made a terrible hire, I don’t think Coyle will put up with it much longer.
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At this rate we are going to need the Miracle on Wood in 2024.
 

skiumah1 said:
This is brutal man.

I’m not that into Battle or Cooper as players, but both hitting the portal?

Feels like we’re just a bad program who has accepted being a bad program.

Though he made a terrible hire, I don’t think Coyle will put up with it much longer.
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This is way worse than Brewster at this point, Ben is the worst hire in Gopher sports in my Gopher football, basketball, hockey watching life.
 






goldengophers said:
This is way worse than Brewster at this point, Ben is the worst hire in Gopher sports in my Gopher football, basketball, hockey watching life.
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Or Henley committing to Depaul didn’t see that coming. I thought if not Louisville he would go back out west.
 


The seat has to be getting hot hot hot! CBJ better get a good commitment from the portal here pretty soon to give some direction and hope we can land decent portal players.
 



007gopherfan said:
The seat has to be getting hot hot hot! CBJ better get a good commitment from the portal here pretty soon to give some direction and hope we can land decent portal players.
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We've been saying for some time that this off season will tell the tale of the rest of Johnson's tenure here. Part one is retention, and I hope we've seen the last of the transfers. Part two is recruiting.
 

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