The majority thought he was a diversity hire and totally out over his skis as a Big Ten head coach.
Never a head coach at any level. Never on a winning college team or on the bench of a highly successful team as an assistant coach. Yet here we are with only one loss after nearly the entire team transferred and left him for dead.
It's not just the one loss and the win at Michigan. It's how he has melded a group of guys who didn't know each into a disciplined impressive team. They play for each other. In the two Big Ten games they committed four and three turnovers ...total, two games. They follow the game plan and we have one. Very impressive, fun basketball team and an amazing beginning to a career.
Indiana, storied basketball program, has not had a head coach win his first conference game on the road in 100 years. Ben Johnson accomplished this task for the Gophers. I liked that he was chafed by the loss to Michigan State and really genuinely felt we could have won the game.
It sure seems like the future is in good hands after this impressive beginning. Way to go Ben and the Gophers!
Never a head coach at any level. Never on a winning college team or on the bench of a highly successful team as an assistant coach. Yet here we are with only one loss after nearly the entire team transferred and left him for dead.
It's not just the one loss and the win at Michigan. It's how he has melded a group of guys who didn't know each into a disciplined impressive team. They play for each other. In the two Big Ten games they committed four and three turnovers ...total, two games. They follow the game plan and we have one. Very impressive, fun basketball team and an amazing beginning to a career.
Indiana, storied basketball program, has not had a head coach win his first conference game on the road in 100 years. Ben Johnson accomplished this task for the Gophers. I liked that he was chafed by the loss to Michigan State and really genuinely felt we could have won the game.
It sure seems like the future is in good hands after this impressive beginning. Way to go Ben and the Gophers!
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