If you are Brad Stevens, the men's basketball coach at Butler University, you still would have your job. Last year, Stevens signed a 12-year deal to stay as coach of Butler. Stevens is 34 years old.
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| Butler Bulldogs coach Brad Stevens |
This is a classic case of a university seeing a young coach, and wanting to lock him up to an incredibly long-term deal. Butler certainly doesn't have the history of a great basketball team like Kentucky or Kansas, but with Stevens at the helm, they have a shot at a long run. Duke was not very good until Mike Krzyzewski came along in 1980. Now Krzyzewski is still the coach of Duke, and is on the verge of being the all-time winningest coach in men's basketball.
No doubt, if a good job comes up, Stevens probably has an out clause in his contract should he ever want to leave Butler.
The Stevens deal, while being very long, is not even half as long as the deal basketballer Magic Johnson signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1984. That deal was a 25-year contract. Johnson retired from basketball in 1991.
How do they know if he is any good? He must not have that much experience if he is only 33 years old?
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