New Stanford coach Kyle Smith gets ‘best job in the country’

STANFORD – Kyle Smith remembers an argument he had in a bar in 2004, after someone said Mike Montgomery had just made a great move by leaving Stanford to coach the Golden State Warriors.

Smith disagreed, saying Montgomery already had the best job in the country.

Twenty years later, that “best job” now belongs to Smith, who was formally introduced as the men’s basketball coach at a press conference on Stanford’s campus Wednesday.

“I’ve been saying that this is the best job...