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Bruce Weber gets a raise & extension

Hot dang....
$1.5 million per year for a guy who has won a whopping 25 Big Ten games in the past three years (he is 25-27 in Big Ten play over the past 3 years since his predecessor's players all left), and he's built a tremendous 0-2 NCAA record since 2006 as well.
He's also presided over 36 point butt-whuppin's at the hands of mighty Penn State, and been embarrassed on the court with games where his team's scored in the 30's and off the course with scandalous drunk driving issues, robberies, break-ins, and players left for dead by other drunken players.
Hey- I am an Illini fan but I think there's a chance this might be regretted down the road.
 
Bruce Weber is a nice guy, but they don't pay you for being nice. It should be his performance that warrants the raise.
He is getting this raise on the merits of the potential for the future, and trying to lock him in so the 4 and 5-Star guys don't change their minds.
 
Chico said:
Good for BW. He's a class act and a nice guy.
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SFP said:
I'm with you Chico! He's one of the good guys!
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I agree with with you guys. A nice guy that has a 152-57 record in six seasons.
Has one of the top recruiting class's coming in. The future looks bright for the Illinois BB program:!: And lets not forget how the guy came in and took Bill's boys to second place in the NCAA T. As for Howard, Bruce was the the guy who gave him the chance. Howard returned the favor by recruiting his butt off and showing his loyalty by staying when other's came offering more:!: I'm happy for both:biggrin:
 
Pretty decent read in Today's Pantagraph on the extension:

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/05/22/usports/doc4a15d9682ddd5396428784.txt

Let??™s look at the numbers.

Any objective analysis of Weber??™s tenure must be divided into two parts: the first three years with Bill Self??™s recruits, the past three largely with his own.

The Illini went 89-16 in those first three seasons (.848), winning two Big Ten Conference titles, advancing to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2004, being national runner-up in 2005, and making the NCAA second round in 2006.

Deron Williams, Luther Head and Roger Powell moved on after the 37-2 season of 2005. Dee Brown and James Augustine were gone after finishing 26-7 in 2006.

Since then, Illinois is 63-41 overall (.605), 25-27 in the Big Ten (.481) and 0-2 in the NCAA Tournament.

Rewarding that, particularly to the tune of $500,000 per year, seems overly generous or unwarranted or both.
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Shame on you Cpac. How dare anyone be critical of BAM.

j/k

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tornado said:
Hot dang....
$1.5 million per year for a guy who has won a whopping 25 Big Ten games in the past three years (he is 25-27 in Big Ten play over the past 3 years since his predecessor's players all left), and he's built a tremendous 0-2 NCAA record since 2006 as well.
He's also presided over 36 point butt-whuppin's at the hands of mighty Penn State, and been embarrassed on the court with games where his team's scored in the 30's and off the course with scandalous drunk driving issues, robberies, break-ins, and players left for dead by other drunken players.
Hey- I am an Illini fan but I think there's a chance this might be regretted down the road.
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Man tornado you sure are hard on your boy Bruce Weber. :)

Good to see you expect a coach to compete for league titles and have a high standard of winning before showering them with praise, extensions, and raises. Especially a coach who has been at a school for a while.

Seems like fair expectations to me.
 
tornado said:
those expectations begin when you pass the $1 mil per barrier
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So the expectations raise with the dollar amount being paid?

A coach making $400,000 or so a year and is among the highest paid in his league shouldn't have the same expectations?

Seems weird to me but whatever.
 
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