Johnson was the star of the spring game. Is he fired up for opening weekend? Oh yes.
“Woooooooo, I’m really excited to play such a big team,” Isaiah Johnson said of Houston’s imminent colossus of a matchup with Oklahoma.
The redshirt sophomore rocks back in his stance and lets the enthusiasm roll out like a red carpet at a Hollywood movie premiere as we talk just inside the doors of the UH Athletics/Alumni Center.
He has just finished another grueling practice of fall camp in the pouring rain. And in August, Mother Nature fires up the Texas blast furnace and shovels wave after wave of heat onto the players while it rains — even at 9 a.