Trent Johnson Hired Thread

Good stuff coach, also congrats on your recent championship!

Overwhelming majority approved.

Lester Earl and SPEEDY said we could do better.


I still think he has us on the track for sustained mediocrity with the occasional tournament run. Not sure if that will keep him his job forever or not.

If he could just lock up Louisiana we could be good consistently.

let us also remember the reveille article announcing Trent's hiring

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Who cares what anyone thought about the hire the day of? If we hired Mike Krzyzewski (yes I had to look that up) tomorrow and 4 years from now he had the same or worse record he'd still be on the hook for doing a bad job.

Bottom line is that he has done a terrible job recruiting and frankly does a pretty poor job at "coaching up" the players he does have.

I'm really not sure who on the board was saying it, but its absolutely correct. Joe Alleva needs to ask himself; if you had the foresight of knowing the results of the last four years mixed with the overall state of the program prior to hiring TJ, would you have still made the hire?

wow did this stanford fan nail it....

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As a stanford fan, I can only say good riddance to that shitty coach. LSU fans, enjoy timeouts called too late to stop runs, timeouts right before media timeouts, an incomprehensible rotation (you know the worst player on your team...get more familiar), and, of course, a stagnant ugly offense.

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Yikes

Some of these are looking pretty prophetic now four years later...

tigerbball73 (posted 4/9/08): "he has no ties to teh south his recruitting base is all west coast so oce again we will have another coach who cant keep Louisiana players in Louisiana"

otowntiger (posted 4/9/08): "I don't see him being a great salesman for LSU basketball. I hope he can connect with the fans, because frankly that was the main reason Brady was fired. If we just wanted a solid coach and a recruiter, we could have settled for Piere. I for one am not enthused, but I really want to be wrong."

calihaze (posted 4/9/08): "Trent Johnson is definitely not on the same coaching level as Miles or Saban. LSU hoops fans will be longing for the Final Four run of Brady after a few of those 18-13 seasons Johnson is known for"

and calihaze again (still on 4/9/08): "...Or at least you will be counting down the minutes to the football opener during the upcoming run of mediocrity that Johnson brings. Very average recruiter who got the Lopez Twins only because they had always wanted to go to Stanford. NIT or Bust!!!"

Pinchdatail (quoting a Stanford fan from another board): "As a stanford fan, I can only say good riddance to that shitty coach. LSU fans, enjoy timeouts called too late to stop runs, timeouts right before media timeouts, an incomprehensible rotation (you know the worst player on your team...get more familiar), and, of course, a stagnant ugly offense"

saints63213 (posted on 4/9/08): "the question you should ask your self if you were a high school basketball player like Greg Monroe would a guy like Trent Johnson make you stay home and play at LSU?

I would say no I could pass him up and go elsewhere"

And some...well, less prophetic...

Prominentwon (posted 4/9/08 in response to saints63213): "good thing you're not Greg Monroe."

budlight34 (posted 4/9/08): "the guy won at Stanford and Nevada, i repeat, Stanford and Nevada!. LSU will be a consistent participant in the tourney with this guy"

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holy shite...that dude was SPOT ON

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It's like the BYU-Crowton article.

this is priceless.