Stop with the racist nonsense. We hired someone that wasn’t qualified, period. People would have been just as upset if we hired a random white assistant coach from Xavier. Ben won’t even be able to field a group of guys to practice in June for summer workouts because our roster is so decimated.
8 guys on the roster.
10. With more to come including walk-ons.
And there you go with an opinion the University of Minnesota does not hold.
The U can hire whomever they wish. And, they can write the qualifications however they wish. Your opinion is an opinion.
If that is true, he should have made a full court press for Shaka Smart.
Indeed, yet the fact is the University hired Ben Johnson as head men's basketball coach, which therefore makes him objectively qualified for the job as opposed to people who claim he is not qualified, even though the UMN has made him qualified. The haters in this picture are those who speak poorly of Ben Johnson when he's had less than 3 months on the job and no basketball games have been played.
I know... I shouldn't give him any acknowledgement. I debated whether to reply but I've read so many of his posts which seem to hint insight of some form or another (I guess he works at the U?). I thought I'd give him an opportunity to demonstrate why anyone should read his one sentence diatribes.
This is an insane stance. By this logic, every person who has ever been hired for any job is qualified for that job.
Our roster wasn’t deep enough to have sustained success last year. They really had 2 good players and 2 good role players.
Writing a job posting that qualifies someone hardly makes them qualified for the job. Seen it waaaaay toooooo many times over the years. Same thing happened here.
Shaka is a nice dude and all, but he'd get eaten alive in the B1G.
Sorry. Calling it a "POS hire" is a bit more than disagreeing.
The guy who's got 10 years of experience in the A-10 and Big 12 would get eaten alive, but the guy with no experience at all won't?
I suppose you see Shaka as the Marquette type. Just not quite UW material.
His preferred style of play didn’t work well in Texas. He was almost fired before last year. He’s a good recruiter but pretty overrated as a developer and in game coach.
I love Bud but there is a logic failure in the quote. Bud is actually saying that Xs and Os don't win games. I agree to some degree as no plays are likely ground breaking. However, coaches are the ones who "manage the players and put them in the right places, and recognize their talents. That's what wins games."
He is qualified by virtue of the hire. He may or may not succeed in this job, but the hire itself officially qualifies Ben Johnson.
I understand your attempted logic at this take but I just strongly disagree with it. With this line of thinking, every single person hired for any job in the history of time is qualified. I don't think taking this stance bolsters your argument, IMO it's so preposterous that it actually discredits your overall point.
Grant being modest...he manage and put them in the right places and recognize their talents... hopefully BJ has a similar ability.
It is upon you to prove Ben Johnson is not qualified. Since there is no objective rules that determine qualification, you must use subjective opinion. You can attempt to be persuasive, but that doesn't actually prove Ben Johnson is not qualified, it just persuades emotions to feel a certain way.
There is no proof right now that he is qualified or is not qualified- since he has a zero win loss record as a head coach in college. It is all on Ben to show if he is qualified or not. We will know a lot by late this fall. # 1 job is fall recruiting. We won't be sure about his coaching until he has the players to compete with and that is 2 years away-minimum. I like Ben, I think he is promising and I want badly for him to succeed. It has been a really rough start, I don't know how anyone could spin it differently. If he goes over 12-13 wins this year- we have witnessed something masterful.
