In what has become an semiannual right of passage for the Board of Regents, basketball coaches Tad Boyle (praise be his name) and Linda Lappe received a contract extension. Through a vote on Friday, the respective contracts were extended to the end of the '18-'19 season, without an increase in salary.
I don't mean to undersell this move, since it is important for the coaches to continue to enjoy a sense of job security, but I'm not kidding when I say that this has become a common occurrence. The contracts for Boyle and Lappe have been repeatedly extended tweaked over the previous two years, including the following instances:
February 2012
November 2012
April 2013
June 2013
July 2013
I've become accustomed to the idea that, in sports, contracts are barely worth the paper they're printed on. Coaches can be fired or quit at the drop of a hat, so all of this is mostly for posturing. Anyone who is familiar with the programs in Boulder knows that Boyle and Lappe are here until they no longer want to be. Still, simply the idea that both the coaching eras we're currently enjoying would continue through 2019 is a welcome one. I'll take it.
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Today in the bag, I'm talking about the US sneaking through to the knockout rounds, the first games of the World Cup's sweet sixteen, and a big-time recruit in football
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Monday, June 30, 2014
Monday, April 9, 2012
Quick Post: ... and I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't those pesky recruiting violations
Ah Baylor. Once again you've crossed into my consciousness with your outright dickishness.
Over the past few years Baylor, once the athletic laughing stock of the American Southwest, suddenly became a Waco behemoth, seemingly capable of no wrong on the court. Football? Check. Men's hoops? Check. Women's basketball? Double-check. A combined 80 wins this past season in football, mens and womens basketball set an NCAA record. Sic 'em, indeed.
Of course, everyone knew, with a wink and a nudge, that Baylor had accomplished these feats with typical SWC aplomb (read: they cheated), but the proof was lacking. That is, it was lacking until today.
Finally getting around to it, the NCAA has let it be known that the saintly Baptists in Central Texas are just as scum ridden as the rest of us heathens. 1,671 acts of impermissible contact with recruits across nine different sports (including equestrian!), the illegal hiring of recruiting services, and an assistant coach encouraging witnesses to lie? Not very Christian of you, Baylor. The NCAA even threw in the old "failure to monitor" chestnut to top the sundae off.
The Bears tried to sweep this all under the rug by self imposing a few extra recruiting silent periods and a few empty scholarships. However, since the mens basketball program was still under probation when some of these major violations were alleged to have taken place, we might just hear more about this in the coming months.
No wonder El Jefe and his millions of "Pac-12 Funbucks"© wanted nothing to do with them two years ago.
Over the past few years Baylor, once the athletic laughing stock of the American Southwest, suddenly became a Waco behemoth, seemingly capable of no wrong on the court. Football? Check. Men's hoops? Check. Women's basketball? Double-check. A combined 80 wins this past season in football, mens and womens basketball set an NCAA record. Sic 'em, indeed.
Of course, everyone knew, with a wink and a nudge, that Baylor had accomplished these feats with typical SWC aplomb (read: they cheated), but the proof was lacking. That is, it was lacking until today.
Finally getting around to it, the NCAA has let it be known that the saintly Baptists in Central Texas are just as scum ridden as the rest of us heathens. 1,671 acts of impermissible contact with recruits across nine different sports (including equestrian!), the illegal hiring of recruiting services, and an assistant coach encouraging witnesses to lie? Not very Christian of you, Baylor. The NCAA even threw in the old "failure to monitor" chestnut to top the sundae off.
The Bears tried to sweep this all under the rug by self imposing a few extra recruiting silent periods and a few empty scholarships. However, since the mens basketball program was still under probation when some of these major violations were alleged to have taken place, we might just hear more about this in the coming months.
No wonder El Jefe and his millions of "Pac-12 Funbucks"© wanted nothing to do with them two years ago.
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