Names & Faces: Trent Johnson, Michael Phelps

Trent Johnson

The former Stanford men’s basketball coach has been asked to help stabilize Louisville’s program in the wake of a bribery scandal that will cost Rick Pitino his job. Johnson, who coached the Cardinal from 2004-2008 and TCU from 2012-2016, was hired as an assistant to Louisville interim coach David Padgett. “I’m ready to do whatever coach wants me to do,” said Johnson, who was 276-264 as a head coach, including 80-48 at Stanford. “I’ve known Coach a long, long time, but nothing surprises me because his maturity when he was 18 and I was 30 was so impressive. ...... My role is to give him advice where he needs it.