[1] He graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood[2] and from the University of Arkansas at Monticello in 1994 after playing baseball there for two years.
[3] Johnson began his coaching career as an assistant at Sylvan Hills and Arkansas Baptist High School before landing the head coaching job and winning a state championship at Abundant Life School in Sherwood.
[4] He has served as a pitching coach for the Central Arkansas Bears and Dallas Baptist Patriots, before joining the Mississippi State Bulldogs in 2016.
He spent one season with Mississippi State before he was hired to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks pitchers.
Leaving his pitching coach role with the first-place Twins for the same position at the NCAA level was reported as a rare move by many in the media, including Jeff Passan.