re: Trent Johnson to be hired today per WGSO and Fox 44

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...in what appeared to be an effort to underrate Brady and overrate Johnson.

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You were back to blowing the coach of ARKANSAS STATE whose only claim to fame is a MIRACLE Final Four run.

Johnson has made as many NCAA appearances and NIT appearances AND Sweet 16 appearances in 9 years as Brady has in 17 years. Except Johnson has done it at two schools - one being Nevada.

Johnson's pre-LSU resume completely destroys John Brady's. It's not even close.

We'll see what he can do.

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Brady created NO excitement with LSU BBall.

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Factually incorrect. SEC titles are exciting; owning Arkansas is exciting. Going to the Final Four is exciting. Brady did all of those at some point. Did he suck? A little too often, yes. But to say he created no excitement is to be too nega.

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But to say he created no excitement is to be too nega.

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Anytime Brady had any momentum or excitement after having a good team, the program stayed exactly where it was during his entire tenure - nowhere.

He had good teams. He built no program.

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Whereas, John Brady coached Samford to a losing season his first year, never got them into the postseason at any time. Then when fired from LSU had led them to back to back losing seasons

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As glad as I was to see LSU dismiss Brady,it is unfair and inaccurate to attempt to portray is tenure at Samford as a failure. Samford was a member of a one bid league at the time,the TAAC. His teams twice won the regular season title and under today's scenarioes would then be awarded an NIT berth.

Now to have modest success at Samford doesn't necessarily make one the heir apparent to an SEC school,either. But Brady did do relatively well at Samford.

Please do me a huge favor, and quit mentioning that fricking loser BRADY's name. he is exactly where he needs to be ----arkansas. good riddence. may they run an intricate an offense as lsu did under the loser

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has Johnson been hired officially?

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Yes, and he is already off to a 4-2 regular season start.

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But Brady did do relatively well at Samford.

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Brady was barely over .500 at Samford, never had a 20 win season and - regardless of how current scenarios would be different - never made the postseason. And just like at LSU, for every two winning seasons, he had a losing season.

I emailed a friend of mine who worked in the athletic dept at Stanford asking why would he leave since he was a west coast guy. Here is his response...

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Throughout the entire year it was just assumed that he was going to get a contract extension. Our AD even talked about sitting down after the season and working one out. The 08-09 year would have been the last on his contract. My guess was that he got fed up with the new AD wavering and decided to leave. Stanford was pretty much his dream job, but he obviously knew he could make more money elsewhere even when he accepted the job 4 years ago.

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it was just assumed that he was going to get a contract extension.

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Exactly. A West Coast columnist was writing about this a few weeks ago and even pondering the possibility of Mike Montgomery returning to Stanford to replace Johnson.........then Montgomery got the Cal job.

Johnson certainly was available. He looks pretty good coming in. No objections from me. Welcome, Trent, to LSU and Baton Rouge and...........

Hope Trent goes 15-1 in the SEC