Chaaa Chingggg!!

Each and every year you see it, some team makes a big time run in the NCAA tournament and the only person who cashes in off of it, is the coach. We saw it with Jim Larranaga at George Mason back in 2006 and now this year with Brad Stevens, the Butler Bulldogs Coach who was just given a 12 year contract extension thru the 2021-2022 season.

Now I am actually a big Brad Stevens fan after watching what he has done this year. He without a doubt had the toughest road to get to where they got, having had to face Syracuse, K State and Michigan State and then on to face the Dukies in the title game. But what I don't get is why such a long contract with double the salary (rumored almost $1.5 mill per year). I know he is a hot commodity and some big time college basketball school such as Boston College might have swooped in and stole him away but give me a fuckin break a 12 year extension for a program that most likely won't sniff the Final Four again by the 2022 season seems a bit extreme for me.

I think that Butler had a nice run and Gordon Haywood is definitely an NBA calliber player but don't even dare try and tell me that Brad Stevens is the young new guy who is going to build a powerhouse at Butler because that ain't gonna happen. First off he can't compete with the big boys such as Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Cuse, etc. to land the big time HS recruits on top of the fact that there are coaches who are around his age who will supply a much better national program such as Billy Donovan at Florida, Jay Wright at Nova and Tom Crean at Indiana whom he will be competing with for in state players (and I think Indiana has a little more history than Butler).

I am just not in favor of rewarding a coach who has had one good season the keys to my entire basketball program for the next 14 seasons. You think Gordon Gekko was proud of Bud Fox for hitting it big off one fuckin deal HELL NO, did Gordon Bombay settle for beating just the Hawks HELL NO, he had to come back and take it to Iceland before getting respect, I personally think he should have had to prove more than one magical year to deserve the type of contract he got. But then again he out coached possibly the greatest coach of all time in Coach K during the national championship game and was an in and out buzzer beater away from winning the whole thing, so maybe locking up Brad Stevens was a genius move. Only time will tell.