GOPHERS HIRING BEN JOHNSON

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DarrenTheGreek said:
I try to have the mindset of not overreacting and letting people have a chance. Go get 'em coach!

I mean, can it get much worse? We were 13th seed out of 14 this year. People seem to think we are on the cusp of being a perennial sweet 16 team.

Good luck Coach Johnson!
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This logic is insane. We sucked so who cares that we make a sucky hire? There were proven head coaches who are on a ton of P5 team radars who wanted the job and we hired someone who wouldn't even have gotten a mid major HC job.
 


Otis said:
How many coaches turned us down to get to this selection?

It's going to come out. This is going to be embarrassing.

Either we were turned down by double digits to get here.

Or worse, he was in our top 5?

I feel like Harry Potter after he finds out he has to die. I mean, F me!
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I know that's how we ended up with Pitino. I guess, if true, This is just not that desirable of a job. I hope this Johnson fellow proves me wrong.
 

laazrakit said:
Well, when year after year, lately (it seems) Minnesota produces the #1 recruit in the country, it's tough not to dream of seeing them in the maroon and gold.
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Johnson was an assistant here for all of those top rated guys with the exception of Chet and Kendall Brown and all we got was Amir Coffey.
 



topos said:
Being the head coach vs Richard Pitino’s assistant is a very different situation.
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True. But give me some evidence of his connection to any success on the floor.
 

WriterGoph said:
Amazing to see so many loyal "fans" jumping ship and giving up their tickets this quick.

Everyone demanded a change and now they don't trust the AD's choice?

Imagine that.
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I was on the fence about my tickets as part of my group is bailing. This hire did not help at all and no I don't trust the choice.
 






Love how one of the big stories is the big role he played in bringing the only 2 out of the last 19 4+ stars from MN on campus. To Pitino's team. Who just got fired after being mediocre for years and years. And now hiring his assistant. Lmao
 





MaxyJR1 said:
This is like hiring Juwan Howard. Terrible hire 😂
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Yes one of the top NBA assistants who was a shoe in for an NBA HC job in the next few years + a known NBA legend is very similar to an assistant coach with zero name recognition, zero pedigree, and a key part of a program that has been going down hill since he arrived (Xavier).
 



Holy Man said:
Disagree. I don’t see any evidence at all that he was an effective local recruiter. I was all in on his hire as an assistant for that reason and it never materialized.
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Oturu and coffey
 

laazrakit said:
I'll just throw this in here... on paper, that Brewster hire wasn't a bad hire. That dude could (and still can, for that matter) recruit his ass off. Problem was, he couldn't figure out how to hire the right assistant coaches to make it work.

If what people are throwing around about the AAU stuff... if it proves out that Ben is the new coach... maybe it could be a good hire. He's still gonna need the right assistants, though.
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Brewster was not a good hire on paper. No experience and made us the laughing stock of the country. On paper this is a terrible hire.
 





Holy Man said:
Disagree. I don’t see any evidence at all that he was an effective local recruiter. I was all in on his hire as an assistant for that reason and it never materialized.
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He got Jarvis before he was ineligible, Kalscheur, Coffey, and Oturu. Murphy not local.
 

NDGopher69420 said:
This really odd narrative keeps being pushed by the media especially locally and makes zero sense. It's a quality people will blindly believe to support the hire even though it's baseless. What part about him is a good recruiter? He has been a below average lazy recruiter his entire career.
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How do you know he’s a lazy recruiter?
 

Let’s hope this wrangles in those suburban white kids to want to play at the barn.
 





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