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per ESPN:
Jay Johnson is Minnesota's new offensive coordinator, but he's hardly new to Minnesota.
Johnson grew up in the southern Twin Cities suburb of Lakeville and followed the Golden Gophers as a kid. He remembers going to games at the old Memorial Stadium and the Metrodome, and though his career path took him to different parts of the country, he said he "always kept an eye on the Gophers."
So while Johnson is charged with improving Minnesota's offensive output, he knows exactly what the roots of the program are.
"We need to run the football," he told ESPN.com. "That comes a little bit with the Big Ten and where we play and the elements we play in. And I think it also comes with how we want this team to be perceived, as a physical football team."
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post...ordinator-jay-johnson-will-emphasize-run-game
Go Gophers!!
Jay Johnson is Minnesota's new offensive coordinator, but he's hardly new to Minnesota.
Johnson grew up in the southern Twin Cities suburb of Lakeville and followed the Golden Gophers as a kid. He remembers going to games at the old Memorial Stadium and the Metrodome, and though his career path took him to different parts of the country, he said he "always kept an eye on the Gophers."
So while Johnson is charged with improving Minnesota's offensive output, he knows exactly what the roots of the program are.
"We need to run the football," he told ESPN.com. "That comes a little bit with the Big Ten and where we play and the elements we play in. And I think it also comes with how we want this team to be perceived, as a physical football team."
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post...ordinator-jay-johnson-will-emphasize-run-game
Go Gophers!!