New Basketball Staff Thread

[Demo]

1 minute ago, lillurk said:

Not sure who Kenny helped get to Georgetown but there are some interesting names from their roster: Jayden Epps, Drew Fielder, Jordan Burks, Caleb Williams. Somebody from URI hopped in the portal too, don’t recall who or if he was particularly interesting for IU.

Johnson was the Operations Director and coached U17 for Team Takeover in the EYBL before he went the college route. That is a very insular program. Those guys are super familial and crazy proud of it. 
Nyk Lewis is a Team Takeover kid. Just sayin’…..

[Ctf9]

Iowa and McCollum just poached Luke Barnwell from Texas Tech. Probably makes Achoki more of a long shot and may relate to the Johnson hire. 

[Parakeet Jones]

19 minutes ago, Trish said:

Have you been on campus between May 9th - August 9th? No better place in the world. 

So it’s great when the students aren’t there? Lol

[Home Jersey]

2 minutes ago, Ctf9 said:

Iowa and McCollum just poached Luke Barnwell from Texas Tech. Probably makes Achoki more of a long shot and may relate to the Johnson hire. 

How do you figure?

[Bowhunter]

I don’t get this hire. Especially with his baggage. 

[Trish]

6 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said:

So it’s great when the students aren’t there? Lol

Exactly, back me up @Chris007

[Ctf9]

4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

How do you figure?

I’m just guessing online, but we didn’t hire anyone for a long time, and then Murphy is a no and another Texas Tech assistant leaves and 24 hours later we get Johnson. Maybe Johnson was in the works for weeks! But maybe once IU found out Murphy and Achoki were a no they moved to the next option. 
 

Seems unlikely Texas Tech would lose its top two recruiters in one offseason. Again I’m just guessing online. 

[RaceToTheTop]

3 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

I don’t get this hire. Especially with his baggage. 

Nobody has baggage any more with the new rules unless it is off the court stuff like domestic violence.

[HoosierInParadise]

I don’t get this hire. Especially with his baggage. 

I guess, but assistants will drum to the beat of their boss. I doubt he has issues while on staff with CDD...

[dwtaylor1055]

5 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

I don’t get this hire. Especially with his baggage. 

then why did we hire Ya? he had some baggage

[lillurk]

14 minutes ago, Demo said:

Johnson was the Operations Director and coached U17 for Team Takeover in the EYBL before he went the college route. That is a very insular program. Those guys are super familial and crazy proud of it. 
Nyk Lewis is a Team Takeover kid. Just sayin’…..

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

I don't recall seeing Kenny Johnson's name even whispered as a possible staff addition until Osterman's tweet.  DDV is handling his staff hires as close to his vest as Dolson did the coaching search.  And given our university's reputation for not getting our fingers dirty I have to believe that everybody involved in this hire have satisfied themselves that Kenny is a good hire and he's been completely vetted.

[IUGRAD06]

5 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

I don't recall seeing Kenny Johnson's name even whispered as a possible staff addition until Osterman's tweet.  DDV is handling his staff hires as close to his vest as Dolson did the coaching search.  And given our university's reputation for not getting our fingers dirty I have to believe that everybody involved in this hire have satisfied themselves that Kenny is a good hire and he's been completely vetted.

Assistants for the most part are given out marching orders from the head coach.  He does something dirty it came from the head coach.  

[Pagoda]

Recruiting has always been the wild west and a messy business.  What Kenny did doesn't seem out of line for what was actually pretty darn common.  So, personally I don't care that much about his NCAA penalties. 

Hopefully he knocks it out of the park for us.

[Deserthoozier]

6 minutes ago, IUGRAD06 said:

Assistants for the most part are given out marching orders from the head coach.  He does something dirty it came from the head coach.  

And/or coaches hire assistants specifically because they know how they operate and who they are connected to…for better and worse.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

This is from Raby's story on Johnson and this just blows my mind.

Johnson earned his Bachelor of Science in cell, molecular biology and genetics in 1999 from Maryland, where he was a Benjamin Banneker Scholarship recipient. He worked as a protein chemist and molecular biologist at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Md., after graduation.

[Golfman25]

31 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said:

So it’s great when the students aren’t there? Lol

Summer school was some of the best times.  :)  

[Golfman25]

24 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Nobody has baggage any more with the new rules unless it is off the court stuff like domestic violence.

Apparently he knows how to write checks.  :)  

[Stuhoo]

5 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

This is from Raby's story on Johnson and this just blows my mind.

Johnson earned his Bachelor of Science in cell, molecular biology and genetics in 1999 from Maryland, where he was a Benjamin Banneker Scholarship recipient. He worked as a protein chemist and molecular biologist at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Md., after graduation.

I remember this from his first IUBB go-around.

I think it's partly the visual; he looks like a big 'ol beer guzzling slick salesman type, but to be good at what he does a guy has to be really really smart, and he clearly is.

[JaybobHoosier]

Welcome aboard (back aboard) Mr. Kenny Johnson. He helps in the recruiting department and was considered a top assistant at one point. If he can get us in with really good talent then let’s go! Might not be a hot name but it makes sense. Help get recruits to Coach and let it role from there.

Go Hoosiers!