He did a good job holding everything together after Montgomery left. He has also shown he can recruit big men at multiple schools. Sorry, his point guard sucked. :wave:
He was losing the Lopez Twins to the draft so might have been in his mind. Link to Sporting News Article http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=397619
I like the hire. He has been successful everywhere he has been and more importantly builds the program in the right direction, getting better each year. And for once maybe he can keep our big men near the post and not let them run an offense from 25 feet out.
"born in September 12, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is a men's college basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of the LSU Tigers basketball team. Johnson had previously been the head coach at Stanford University and Nevada, where he achieved some success in the 2004 NCAA tournament with star player Kirk Snyder and then-freshman Nick Fazekas.[1] Johnson had an overall record of 79-74 (.516) in five seasons as the head coach at Nevada." guess what website this is from? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Johnson