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🗓️ 18 March 2024
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Chris Johnson worked in the background as an assistant under Lance Harter for 12 years. He watched the legend rack up 7 National Titles as Head Coach. Now, Johnson is the head man for Arkansas women’s track and he’s already solidifying himself as the man for the job—winning the indoor national championship in his first season at the helm of the program. Some say you never want to follow a legend, but Chris Johnson is making it look all too easy.
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0:00.0 | I'm very demanding and I think coaches demanding but his demanding was in a different way. I mean he was a little older |
0:07.6 | Obviously a lot more polished and had the understanding that they looked at him as like a you know a granddad you know we call |
0:15.0 | them silver fox me they're looking like the the crazy uncle you know if you |
0:19.7 | will so I just think the perspective is different I think there's a different level of energy that's there, |
0:25.0 | but I think obviously the goal is the same. So how you get to that goal and in the first team meeting, get down to say, I'm not coach, and coach is not me. |
0:34.0 | Obviously, he's done a fantastic job, and that's why we're here, and that's why this program is the way it is right now. |
0:40.0 | But I understand that there's a new leadership and with that being said we're going to do things a little differently. |
0:48.0 | We don't have to re-make anything or redo anything. |
0:52.0 | We just have to enhance what we already have. |
0:57.0 | Welcome into the Hog Pot. I'm Bo Mattingly and this episode is made |
1:07.6 | possible by our friends at Vold Vision, Saracen Resort, and south by |
1:12.0 | Northwest Hospitality. |
1:15.0 | After 12 years as one of the nation's top assistant track coaches, |
1:22.0 | Chris Johnson finally has the reins of the Arkansas Women's Program. |
1:27.0 | Work down, work down, work down, work down, work down, work down. |
1:30.2 | We're down. |
1:31.4 | Not even a year in, and he's already won a national championship as head coach. |
1:36.0 | In this year's national championship to the University of Arkansas Razorback. |
1:41.0 | The quick success is well earned, but it's been in the making for years. |
1:48.8 | And when you replace it in a legend, if you will, everyone has that same expectation for you. |
1:54.0 | Way to keep that tradition going. |
1:56.0 | Sitting behind a legend like seven-time national champion coach Lance Harder |
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