Oregon Extends Ernie Kent's Contract

by bluestreet on Jul 19, 2008 11:51 AM PDT Comment 13 comments

Must say I am surprised by this news:

Basketball coach Ernie Kent and Oregon have agreed to terms on a new contract that will run through the 2012-13 season.

The agreement, which took effect July 1, raises Kent's annual minimum guaranteed salary from $1 million to $1,060,000. It also will provide more than $347,000 in additional salary and benefits for his staff. It will take the place of Kent's previous contract, which ran through 2010.

"Ernie's acknowledgement of the role that his staff has played in the program's success reached the point that he was willing to deflect substantial personal gain to aid the continued growth of the program," Oregon athletic director Pat Kilkenny said in a statement.

"That speaks a lot not only for the commitment he has for his players and staff but also the university and this community."

The agreement also raises Kent's buyout clause from $1 million to $1.15 million.

Kent is 211-134 as head coach at Oregon. He has guided the Ducks to five NCAA tournament appearances, including two round-of-eight appearances, the 2002 Pacific-10 Conference regular-season championship, and two conference tournament titles.

"I am honored to have been the head basketball coach at the University of Oregon for the last 11 years," Kent said. "But our work here has just started. I want to build on the momentum and excitement that has been generated from our recent success ... and take this program to the next level."

Not that I believe Oregon is ever going to be a threat to UCLA basketball (with Howland in charge), they have really underachieved despite having some very decent talent on their roster (Hairston, Taylor, Leunen just to name from this past season) last few years.

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All I have to say is

bwah HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Let me see if I understand this. Mr. Kent “deflect[ed] substantial personal gain” to stay at Oregon? Really? I am sure several Division II programs and the NBDL were putting in bids in the $1,040,000 range and Oregon felt like they really needed to step up to the plate with the extra $20,000 to keep their man. Are you sure Phil Knight can afford that extra 60 grand a year? Bold move, gentlemen.

This just proves that if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a crappy, under-achieving, abusive, career-killing (just ask Hairston) basketball coach! As for me, I consider this to be just rewards for the over the top treatment of Kevin Love last year.

Enjoy Mr. Kent for the next 5 years you tree-loving, chicks-with-armpit-hair-having, shoe mogul-bowing, pot smoking, radical left wing-leaning, rain soaked, assisted suicide pervading, hippies. In my view, you have certainly earned it!

SUCKERS!

by Koach Karl I on Jul 19, 2008 12:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

KK - you left out a couple

Imperialist lackey running-dog stooge. Those are good ones, too.

by Fox 71 on Jul 19, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If they weren't going to fire him this offseason

they had to give him an extension. A coach always needs to have 4-5 years left on his contract to effectively recruit. A recruit is going to be weary about committing to a school and coach if he’s not sure the coach will be there his entire time. Once they decided to keep Kent this offseason thos extension had to come.

by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jul 19, 2008 1:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

E. Kent gets extended

and Lute’s coaching again this year. Ahhh – it’s good to be a Bruin!

by kkucla on Jul 19, 2008 5:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ok, ok...

i’m as proud a bruin as they come, and i’m sure folks are still a bit miffed about how k.love was treated by his home state, but i’m going to stick up for oregon and ernie kent here. i think coach kent is a pretty darn good coach, granted nike is filling the coffers making it a lot easier to recruit eugene but kent has done damn good work there. he’s no howland, but then again who is? maybe double-k was messing around, but i’m just not of the kind that feels you need to kick everybody down to assure your supremacy, quite the contrary. why does kent get any blame for how love was treated? he’s responsible for his team, not the entire student body, that’s just silly. either way, under him oregon has become a program that needs to be mentioned in college basketball.
now, i think oregon is a great state. since when are we in california throwing liberal-hippie insults? plenty of beautiful women- sans armpit hair, good food, great micro-brews, little more rainy than the bay area, overall good place. maybe not the most diverse place in the world, but i can deal. and their assisted suicide referendums were on point, both times, you don’t need barbri to realize that the feds blocking that was contrary to all norms of federalism, but i digress. what i’m trying to say is coach kent and oregon are alright by me- except for those black-on-black jerseys

Across The Face

by rb bruin on Jul 19, 2008 8:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

fair enough

Oregon is indeed not a bad place. I have actually spent quite a bit of time there and watching a football game at Autzen or a b-ball game Mac Court is actually pretty cool. I also admit to messing around. But that is as far as I will go. The truth remains that Kent is a terrible coach.

He had some pretty good teams with the likes of Ridnour, Jackson, Brooks, et al. He still screwed the pooch. He killed Hairston’s career. His best assistant coach left to come to UCLA. As an assistant. Not a head coach. Why do you think that is?

And I wasn’t blaming Kent for the Oregon student section’s railing on K Love. I was actually pointing out that because the Oregon fans went over the line, they deserve to keep that albatross of a coach around their collective neck for 5 more years. I would agree that under Kent Oregon needs to be “mentioned” in college basketball. Yeah-they are mentioned as an under-achieving team that may steal a game or two during the regular season but chokes in big games in The Tournament.

Finally, while assisted suicide may not be all bad (God knows I think about it all the time at the office) and most of California may be liberal hippies (except for God’s Country behind the glorious Orange Curtain), I will hold firm on this: Oregon has more than its fair share of bong toting, overweight pale chicks with enough armpit and leg hair to cover the UCLA practice field if they ever want to replace that fake shit. Jesus Christ, can’t they shave? And if they are taking requests, a little laser treatment around the old afro clam wouldn’t hurt.

by Koach Karl I on Jul 19, 2008 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Enough

Koach Karl I , Aside from UCLA being vastly superior to Oregon. There is no need to go off about the state of Oregon. There More than enough pot smoking hippies in Cali (Just ask my friends at Berkley, UCLA and $uc). The women in general may not be the money hungry, fake women that we are all used to in California, but there are plenty that are gorgeous with great personality’s. I have lived in California my whole life and wouldn’t trade it, but Oregon is beautiful and your remarks are not worth the time it took you to type them. Fresh air and No traffic. I may be over reacting to your trash talk… I just wanted to add my two cents.

GO BRUINS!

DBalter

by westwood12003 on Jul 20, 2008 8:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm Surprised by the Extension

I was in Oregon during the end of March and for all of April. There was a good bit of talk about firing Kent in the papers and on the street.

Rye and others provide the context—if you keep a coach, you have to give him a “longer term”, this was a very low raise and not a ringing endorsement and, the buyout is low.

So, one might say he was “almost fired”. If Oregon does not have a very big year, soon, I think he will be gone.

sjh

PS. For what it’s worth, in my eyes Oregon is an incredible place, one of the most “livable” places I’ve been.

sjh

by Class of 66 on Jul 21, 2008 6:32 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

SJH - a question

Was that shiny orange thing in the sky visible at all when you were there? We Floridians call it “the sun.” Many people in the People’s Republic of Oregon have never seen it.

With that shot having been taken, I’ve spent some time in Oregon, and it seemed OK to me. I didn’t care for Portland or Eugene, but being a visitor in a big city doing depos is no treat under the best of circumstances.

by Fox 71 on Jul 21, 2008 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That Orange Thing

was only visible from inside a building or hotel room.

As soon as one went outside, it got covered with clouds and it rained. Every day.

But, I like rain so—fine with me.

What sums it up for me was a bumper sticker “Keep Portland Weird”. As a devotee of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, that bumper sticker made clear to me that Oregon would be a dandy place to live.

sjh

by Class of 66 on Jul 22, 2008 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

maybe now he can afford a barber and a hairstyle not out of the 80s

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Jul 21, 2008 1:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey, Silver! Hold on a second.

What’s so bad about a hairstyle from the 80’s? When you get to be my age, you’re happy to have any hair at all to start with, and the early bird special at the local barber shop don’t do nothing but 80’s haircuts. Frankly, I think I would look silly with a haircut like Ryan Seacrest.

by Fox 71 on Jul 21, 2008 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs