INDIANAPOLIS – Matt Johnson is an Easterner. He was born in upstate New York, played college basketball in Pennsylvania, and worked at jobs in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
Johnson, 33, was overseeing a six-person staff and 27 sports as director of strength and conditioning at George Washington University. He conceded he had other job inquiries but was disinterested in leaving.
Then the Butler Bulldogs called. Would he be interested in a new position? Train men’s basketball players, and nothing else? Move nearly 600 miles to Indiana?
“I just had a feeling like, ‘This was it.