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Louisiana State University Baseball Media Conference Monday, June 28, 2021 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA Tom Galligan seasons and all the work that he's been doing to ensure a LSU President seamless transition into the next era of excellence for our Scott Woodward baseball program. LSU Director of Athletics Thank you again. Welcome, Jay and Maureen. Geaux Tigers! Jay Johnson LSU Head Baseball Coach And now I will turn it over to the person who I think is the best athletic director in the United States of America, my Press Conference friend and colleague, Scott Woodward. SCOTT WOODWARD: Thank you, President Galligan. BILL FRANQUES: Welcome, everyone. Thank you for That's too kind of you. joining us today for the introductory press conference for Coach Jay Johnson, the leader of our next generation of Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you, and thank you for national champions here at LSU baseball. all of those who are watching here inside Alex Box Stadium. I'm thrilled to welcome our new baseball coach To begin with, I'd like to welcome to the podium the Jay Johnson and his wife Maureen to LSU. I can't think of president of Louisiana State University. He has served in a better place for this introduction than the Champions that role for the past year and a half and has done an Club because that is the legacy Coach Bertman built, the unbelievable job for our state and for our university in an legacy Coach Mainieri continued and the legacy Coach unprecedented time in our history of the university, of the Johnson inherits today. country and of the world. We owe a great debt of gratitude to him. He's wrapping up his service as president. He'll be It is a legacy that I'm certain Jay will continue to build upon returning to the LSU law school at the beginning of July. and build upon quickly because everywhere he goes, he wins immediately. At the University of Nevada he inherited Please join me in welcoming LSU president Tom Galligan. a team 14 games back in the conference standings and turned them into the Mountain West champions in two TOM GALLIGAN: Thank you very, very much. Good seasons. At the University of Arizona he inherited a team afternoon, and thank you for joining us today as we begin with six winning seasons in the conference in 30 years and writing a new chapter in the storied history of LSU Tigers brought them to the College World Series the first year to baseball. We're extremely excited to welcome Jay the final game. Last season he let the Wildcats to the Johnson and his wife Maureen into our LSU family. Pac-12 championship and back to Omaha. That success Welcome. is not an accident. It is the product of the most prepared coach in college baseball. We really look forward to celebrating many Tiger wins with you in the years ahead. Jay's teams aren't just prepared, they produce, too. Last year his offense scored more runs than any team in the Jay is a proven leader, a talented recruiter, a dedicated country. The last two seasons his team has led the Pac-12 student of the game who is great at developing hitters. in runs, hits, walks on-base percentage, slugging He's well prepared to build upon the legacy of our baseball percentage and batting average. Needless to say, that's program and lead our Tigers to even greater success in the the kind of offense we're looking forward to. seasons ahead. I know these stats will be music to the ears of those LSU I want to congratulate athletic director Scott Woodward on fans who remember fondly Coach Bertman and the "gorilla making yet another great coaching hire for LSU. I also ball" days. Eddy Furniss, wherever you are, we love you, want to really thank Coach Paul Mainieri for all the babe. We have fond memories of that. Coach Bertman is wonderful memories he's given us over the past 15 a man who established an unprecedented legacy of 109428-1-1002 2021-06-28 22:48:00 GMT Page 1 of 9 excellence for LSU baseball and Coach Mainieri carried it Rouge community incredibly proud. That is my mission, forward for 15 seasons. and that is what we have started working on a couple days ago. When Paul announced his retirement one month ago today, I had a clear picture of the qualities I wanted in the These two guys right here, Coach Bertman and Coach next head coach of the premier college baseball program Mainieri, start with Coach Bertman. I've got a great story in the country. I wanted to hire a teacher, someone who about Coach Bertman. I didn't get a chance to meet him was passionate about our student-athletes and their until last night, but I was a very young coach like 24 years success on the field, in the classroom and in the old, 23 years old coaching like Connie Mack baseball, and community. That's Jay Johnson. I had no idea what I was doing at that point in time, so who's the best in the country at what I want to do? It was I wanted to hire a winner, someone who had proven he Skip Bertman. So I bought his videotape, so he made knew how to build championship programs and bring them some money off me a long time ago. It was called "How to to Omaha. That's Jay Johnson. win the big one." Most of all, I wanted to hire someone who was ready, I can't tell you how influential that was that my development ready for this moment, ready for the expectations, ready to as a coach. I have a great story about this, too. I was win championships, and there is nobody in the world who coaching 16- to 18-year-old boys, and your speech, is more ready for this job than Jay Johnson because he's speeches and your motivational sheets and all of these been preparing for this moment for his entire life. things that you utilized to motivate your players to do amazing things. Five national championships in a 10-year It is now my pleasure to introduce to you the 26th head period is legendary. I look at this man and I see the John baseball coach of the LSU Fighting Tigers, Jay Johnson. Wooden of college baseball. This is the greatest college baseball coach of my entire lifetime. JAY JOHNSON: I don't think I can do it as well as Coach O, but Geaux Tigers! Start this thing off right. That was Coach, we didn't meet until yesterday, we didn't talk on the the only thing we need to say to start this thing off. phone until a couple days ago, but you've been influencing me for a very long time. I want to say thank you for that. I'm honored to be here. I'm incredibly humbled to be here. I'm not standing here today if it's not for that right there, When I think about the 44 years of my entire life, I really because winning is about people and getting people to do believe every day has led me to this podium right now, to things that they didn't think were possible. this program, and it's beyond a dream come true. Everybody knows what a good baseball player looks like. I didn't come here for any other reason because this They can see it. It's tangible. You can touch it. You can doesn't come along but one time in your life, and I view this put it on a radar gun. You can look at it with pitch ability, opportunity to be the head baseball coach at LSU as the but it's another thing to get that person to really believe that opportunity of my lifetime. they're important, they have value and they can become anything that they want to become. Getting started, gratitude is a big thing to me. You don't get to a moment like this without the help of really, really The Hold on to the Ropes story was told in a small town in influential and important people. President Galligan, I California, like we'll go 2001, so 20 years ago, and I believe haven't got a chance to meet you yet until we shook hands that was the start of my journey here. right there, but I am very honored to meet you. I'm honored to have this opportunity that you ultimately signed So Coach, thank you for showing exactly how this was to off on with the advisement of Scott and the athletic be done. department and these two great Hall of Fame coaches. So thank you. Coach Mainieri. At 29 years old at the University of San Diego, probably in June, probably sometime right around Scott, Stephanie, Dan, Verge, thank you. I'm honored to this time, Coach Mainieri was hired at LSU, and I watched be here, and I really, really respect and appreciate how you that press conference, and I'm not into that sort of thing all guys approached me through this entire time, and there's the time, but who's Skip Bertman going to choose to lead nothing I want to do more than to give you exactly what LSU baseball back to national prominence? Paul Mainieri.
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