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[BCPanther]

Minnesota has hired Ben Johnson per Jeff Goodman.

Good for Ben Johnson but, man alive, is that jumping into the deep end without a life vest.

[Panther'73]

Minnesota has hired Ben Johnson per Jeff Goodman.

Good for Ben Johnson but, man alive, is that jumping into the deep end without a life vest.

Ben Johnson as former UNI Asst coach?

[BCPanther]

Ben Johnson as former UNI Asst coach?

Yep. It's a play to try to keep all that talent at home.

Type of hire that works great or blows up spectacularly in 3 years.

[sevelev711]

Wow, after seeing this I checked out the Minnesota message boards and there's a lot of Jake hate. Plenty of "how many people said no for us to talk to him?", "scraping the bottom of the barrel" and "would have been interested in him 10 years ago" comments. If the AD is listening to fans - Jake's chances of going there seem pretty slim.

I can see how they can be so judgemental of him, after all he's only won 4 tourney games, compared to the...2, that they've had in my lifetime.

[CyCarp]

I can see how they can be so judgemental of him, after all he's only won 4 tourney games, compared to the...2, that they've had in my lifetime.

Lol, well they're not very happy with Ben Johnson either.

[UNIdad]

News just broke they are hiring Ben J.



Ben Johnson

Gulp. Oh. Phew.

[UNIChippewa]

Yep. It's a play to try to keep all that talent at home.

Type of hire that works great or blows up spectacularly in 3 years.

Wow.

Where was he most recently?

[PantherAlum09]

News just broke they are hiring Ben J.



Ben Johnson

I see what you did there... Well played. Former Gopher player and current Xavier assistant with a ton of ties to Minnesota AAU circuit. I'm still surprised they didn't hire Niko to be honest. He has shown that he can recruit some talented Minnesota kids to Colorado State. I don't know as much about Johnson but I assume he can, too.

[ronfitch]

Wow.

Where was he most recently?

Xavier since leaving UMN as an assistant after his time at UNI.

[DownGoesKansas]

What an interesting day. Never thought we'd be having this conversation. lol

[vbfan19]

Wow, after seeing this I checked out the Minnesota message boards and there's a lot of Jake hate. Plenty of "how many people said no for us to talk to him?", "scraping the bottom of the barrel" and "would have been interested in him 10 years ago" comments.

run&blade is on the gopher site too??

['70 Grad]

So was it "Ben J." that had an interview and the people that ferreted out that rumor thought it was our Ben J.?

[sevelev711]

So was it "Ben J." that had an interview and the people that ferreted out that rumor thought it was our Ben J.?

...That's just stupid enough to be plausible.

[UNIdad]

So was it "Ben J." that had an interview and the people that ferreted out that rumor thought it was our Ben J.?

I wondered the same thing.

[A Fan In Lean Years]

Wow, after seeing this I checked out the Minnesota message boards and there's a lot of Jake hate. Plenty of "how many people said no for us to talk to him?", "scraping the bottom of the barrel" and "would have been interested in him 10 years ago" comments. If the AD is listening to fans - Jake's chances of going there seem pretty slim.

The clarity of the outsider's perspective.