MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- When Ben Jobe became head coach at Southern University in 1986, a 5-foot, 11-inch point guard from New Orleans walked into his office with a problem.
"The coach had left and he said he had been promised a scholarship, but he didn't have one," Jobe recalls. "A lot of schools had turned him down because he was too small."
That player was Avery Johnson. Nearly 30 years later, Jobe is still thankful Johnson walked through his office door. Southern won back-to-back SWAC tournament titles in 1987 and 1988 with the 'Little General" running the show on and off the court.
If Johnson winds up at Alabama, Jobe says the Crimson Tide "would be getting a steal." ESPN is reporting Johnson has made a verbal agreement to coach the Tide after reportedly meeting Saturday night with Alabama athletic director Bill Battle about the vacant head coaching position.
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