According to Chad Cooper of HoopInsider.com, Rice will be hiring Trent Johnson, current head coach at Stanford, and paying him $600,000/year. I trust the guy, and if he's right, it will be a huge coup for Rice.
I'm not from Houston, an alum of either Rice or Stanford, or any rival of either school, but could you please explain to me why you think this is legitimate at all?
I know the guy was an assistant at Rice, but why would you leave a sweet 16 Pac 10 school for a 0-16 C-USA school with no fan base?
Yes! I knew one of those new science buildings had to pay off sooner or later. They finally perfected the mind control ray. Wait 'til you see our football coach. Mwah-ha-ha.
Stanford is a decent basketball school though. In a hell of a conference. 600,000? I bet Stanford would match that if they aren't already paying more as it is.
If true, this'll be great. It makes CDC look less like a jerk for firing Willis Wilson (even though it was the right decision).
Trent was a former assistant at Rice under Willis Wilson. I can't imagine that he would be happy about the way Willis was let go, so I'm not putting a lot of faith in the rumor that Trent will be our new head coach. He may just be using Rice to get more cash from Stanford. He'd be a great get for Rice, though - he's taken both Stanford and Nevada to the sweet 16
Doesn't make sense. Mike Montgomery would have waited out and taken over Stanford if this was the case. Bring on Charlie Ward.
Charlie Ward should be coaching football. QBs in particular. Not basketball. Not by a longshot. What Ward could contribute to the gridiron is rare.
Who knew? It was actually recently-unemployed Ben Braun. he's no Trent Johnson, but a solid hire, imo.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3338164&campaign=rss&source=NCBHeadlines I heard about Ben Braun, and Trent Johnson going to LSU ahead of time, but I thought that I had used up all of my credibility by this post. Apparently, Johnson knew he wasn't going to get extended at Stanford, so he played Rice to get more money at LSU.
