Johnson always dreamed of being coach
Johnson’s father, Jerry Johnson, a retired high school coach in Oroville, California, said that Jay was so diligent about becoming a coach that he wasn’t a troublesome teenager. “There were no sleepless nights with Jay,” he said. “He knew what he wanted and he toed that line. The only incident we ever had was when he said a cuss word to an umpire as a high school junior. I took him out of the game and when he got home he cried for an hour. He never did it again.”
