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What s neat about playing football here is that we re on TV eight to ten times a season, whether it be on CBS, ESPN, or a regional broadcast. <br><br>You Can Come Home<br><br>Johnson, along with his assistants Dave Lawson and Mike Barwis, is responsible for three weightrooms and over 400 athletes in 20 sports. He has one son, Adam, with his wife, Jan. A former letterman in football and track who graduated from Glenville State College, Johnson started his career as strength coach when he became a graduate assistant at West Virginia under Dave Van Halanger (now at Florida State). Johnson accepted the head coaching responsibilities at WVU in 1982.  I had a background in powerlifting, and had always been interested in strength and conditioning. But it was Coach Halanger who taught me about motivating athletes, and what it takes to be a Division I strength coach. After the 1988 season in which WVU took on Notre Dame in a bowl to decide the National Championship, Johnson left the college environment for four years to coach the Baltimore Orioles.  I was one of the first five strength coaches in professional baseball, and I thank God for the other four guys who were ahead of me, says Johnson.  You talk about barriers! You talk about misconceptions! You ll have pitchers tell you,  Hey, I can t run the ball to the plate, and batters who ll say,  I m not going to bench press the ball out of the park. Then there were the veterans, who had the attitude of,  I got here without you, I m going to stay here without you, and I m going to be here long after you leave. Because strength training was not mandatory for the Orioles when he arrived, except for stretching, Johnson had only 14 guys from the 25-man roster willing to work with him during his first year.  With college athletes you have more control over the discipline of the athletes. Johnson kept at it and earned their trust, and by his last year virtually the entire team was working out. Although there were some younger players who saw the value in conditioning, the greatest influence Johnson had to get players in the weightroom was Cal Ripken, Jr.  The best thing for me going to the Orioles was Cal Ripken Jr. I attribute a lot of my success to Cal Jr., because he was the leader of the team. <br>Johnson admits that after four years the requirements of being involved with a major league baseball team were getting to him.  People look at it as glitz and glamour. The first year it s kind of neat, but you re on the road about 125 days a year and at times you don t know what day it is-it s just a crazy, crazy lifestyle. So when the athletic director at WVU asked if I was interested in getting my old job back, I tell you, it was a pretty easy decision. <br>Johnson came back just in time, because that first year he saw his Mountaineers take on Florida in the game that would decide the National Championship. Johnson also says he was pleased to find that the college baseball players were really starting to get into strength training, which he says was recently sparked considerably by the success of Mark McGwire.  No question there-McGwire s success has made my job