Jay Johnson to be named LSU baseball coach
Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball.com is reporting that Jay Johnson of Arizona will be named LSU's new head baseball coach.
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Jay Johnson’s LSU salary package (premium)
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From Johnson’s Arizona Wildat bio:
Jay Johnson (44 years old) was hired as the University of Arizona's 16th head baseball coach in program history on June 8, 2015. The 2021 season will be Johnson's sixth leading the Wildcats.
In five seasons as the Wildcats' head coach, Johnson has amassed a 163-96 record, and is the first coach in school history to have led his team to the NCAA Tournament in each of his first two seasons as head coach. He has led his Wildcat teams to at least 30 wins in all four full seasons with Arizona and in all six of his full seasons as a Division I head coach. Since Johnson was hired by Arizona in 2016, only two other Pac-12 programs have logged 30+ wins every full season: Oregon State and Stanford. He is the only active Pac-12 head coach to have logged 30+ wins in each of his first six full seasons as a DI head coach. The program's 163 wins are the third-most in the Pac-12 since 2016.
Since Johnson’s arrival, Arizona has produced 15 All-Pac-12 first-team selections and 28 Major League Baseball draft picks. Arizona had a program-record six players drafted in the first 10 rounds of the 2018 MLB Draft and has produced 14 top-10 round picks during his time in Tucson.
Jay Johnson Coaching History
• Arizona Head Coach (2015-present); 163-96 record
• Nevada Head Coach (2014-15); 72-42 record
• San Diego Associate Head Coach (2006-13)
• Point Loma Nazarene Head Coach (2005); 37-14 record
• Point Loma Nazarene Assistant Coach (2002-04)
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