Brad Stevens Signs New 12-year Deal With Butler

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NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Brad Stevens is content to keep coaching the Butler way.
The 33-year-old coach, who came within a buzzer-beating shot of winning the NCAA men’s basketball championship, signed a 12-year deal Thursday that extends through the 2021-22 season.

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16 Responses to Brad Stevens Signs New 12-year Deal With Butler

  1. Rick 04/08/2010 at 6:40 PM #

    We had no hope so I am glad he is not at Wake or Clemson.

  2. 61Packer 04/08/2010 at 6:45 PM #

    Glad to hear it. It’s a much better job than the one here, anyway.

  3. PapaJohn 04/08/2010 at 7:07 PM #

    Smart move Butler, lock him up as best as you can.
    Can’t wait to hear the financials when they get out.

  4. elvislives 04/08/2010 at 7:15 PM #

    Butler’s 14 year old coach signed a 12 year contract? Jim Caldwell’s legacy lives on in Indianapolis…

  5. Badinboarder09 04/08/2010 at 7:22 PM #

    Can’t another school buyout the contract, so he can still go somewhere else?

  6. tractor57 04/08/2010 at 7:31 PM #

    If he is the real deal Butler did the wise thing.
    For WFU – next

  7. Rochester 04/08/2010 at 7:52 PM #

    Where’s Bradley? I want to hear if he feels Butler took a big risk here by extending this unproven coach.

  8. SuperStuff 04/08/2010 at 8:08 PM #

    A 12 yr contract? Yikes!!!

  9. wolf2003 04/08/2010 at 8:15 PM #

    If we were in the market and everything played out as they are now, I doubt we would even have a dog in the fight for stevens.

    12 years wow!

  10. wolfie91 04/08/2010 at 10:04 PM #

    ^Did wake even have a dog in the fight? Seems to me, with the parity that exists in college basketball, that coaches aren’t looking to move around as much as they might have in the past.

  11. ThomYorkepack 04/08/2010 at 10:19 PM #

    The only thing this really means is Stevens will have a significant buyout when he moves on from Butler…but it may not be as significant as one would think. Lots of times when coaches have leverage, they will negotiate a contract where the buyout is not that much if the coach wants to move on, but huge if the school wants to fire him.

    When Indiana wants to hire him in 2 or 3 years, they will still be able to.

  12. wolfbuff 04/09/2010 at 7:53 AM #

    Good for him. Maybe he realizes he has a good thing going, that he can win where he is without jumping from school to school chasing the next big pay-day, has a sense of ownership with respect to the program there, and can continue to build it. There is nothing wrong with that. I’m sure he lives comfortably without having a multi-million dollar contract.

  13. Badinboarder09 04/09/2010 at 8:00 AM #

    Did this same thing happen to Coach K when he first started out at Duke? Did alot of bigger schools try to pick him up?

  14. choppack1 04/09/2010 at 8:48 AM #

    When coach K first started out at Duke he hadn’t done much. However, when he did make the tourney, he made a splash. But he was also in a major conference – big difference between his situation and Stevens. Stevens is more like Mark Few’s.

    I don’t know if UCLA made overtures – but I do know that a lot of NBA teams made runs at him.

  15. jaybird80 04/09/2010 at 9:30 AM #

    A 12 year contract birngs to mind V’s book, “They Gave Me a Lifetime Contact Then Declared Me Dead.”

  16. Lunatic Fringe 04/09/2010 at 5:29 PM #

    Jerry Meyer of Rivals.com states in his “Mailbag” article today that there is a strong sentiment that C.J. Leslie may go back to North Carolina State.

    Here is an excerpt from Meyer:

    Rarely do you see a recruit go back to a school that he has decommitted from, but at the McDonald’s All-American Game last week there was a strong sentiment that Leslie will do just that.

    Leslie, who committed to North Carolina State during his sophomore year and lives in Raleigh, N.C., has stayed in close contact with the North Carolina State program this year. Luke Cothron, who plays the same position as Leslie, recently decommitted from North Carolina State. This decommitment stirred up speculation that Cothron felt Leslie would end up at North Carolina State and he did not want to compete with him for playing time. Also, the frontcourt at North Carolina State is wide open for Leslie to be the go-to man.

    http://www.allkyhoops.com/2010/04/strong-sentiment-that-cj-leslie-may.html

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