Pearl, Howland Land Big Contracts

Bruce Pearl of Tennessee and Ben Howland of UCLA are two of the most successful and well-paid college basketball coaches in the land, and they just got a little more bank this past week. Bruce Pearl was signed to coach the Tennessee Volunteers through the 2013 season, but he extended his contract to 2014 and also picked up some sweet incentive, buy-out and bonus dollars in a new deal with the University.

Ben Howland was signed well into the next decade, but he increased his deal through 2015, grabbed some extra loot to increase with each year he remains the coach at UCLA, but kept some of the incentive dollars the same in the new contract. Here are a few of their past accomplishments:

  • Howland has guided the Bruins to three-straight Final Four appearances, and will go for a fourth this year.
  • Bruce Pearl coached the Vols to a No. 1 AP ranking after they beat then-No. 1 Memphis during the 2007-08 regular season.
  • Both the Volunteers and the Bruins won their respective conference titles last year, and both achieved their best regular season records in decades.

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Permalink - Posted in General on July 2, 2008 - Post a comment

Next Year’s Draft Picks

Gary Parrish. This guy always has something interesting to say, and even though I can disagree with his style (making every sentence, sometimes every word into its own line) I have to give credit where credit is due. The guy single handedly holds the CBS Sports college basketball page afloat. And that’s saying something considering that the network the THE college basketball station come tourney time. But anyways, I digress. Gary has a ridiculously early NBA draft prediction list for those of you who love to get in early on the draft. A lot of these guys haven’t played a minute of college ball yet, but a lot of them have. Here are a few of the predictions Gary makes:

  • The No. 1 pick will not be a one-and-done freshman. Instead it will be Blake Griffin, the power forward from Oklahoma.
  • Ty Lawson (Parrish’s No. 10) will go ahead of Tyler Hansbrough (No. 16).
  • Brandon Jennings, the guy in the media a lot these days for mulling a European adventure instead of college, is expected by Parrish to go No. 5.
  • With the possible exception of Jennings, there are no European players on the list, although they made up 5 of the first round picks in the latest draft. Parrish is basing his estimates off of current college players and incoming freshmen.

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Permalink - Posted in General on July 1, 2008 - Post a comment


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