BASKETBALL: UCLA COACH SIGNED THROUGH 2014-15 SEASON.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX basketball coach Ben Howland Ben Howland (born May 28, 1957 in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American college head coach of men's basketball. He has been the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles since 2003, and recently signed a contract extension through 2013. signed a new seven-year deal that will pay him nearly $2 million a year, the school announced Tuesday. Howland will make $1.97 million this year, and $2.3 million in the final year of his contract in 2014-15. The deal also includes an incentives package from his previous contract worth a maximum of $235,000 per year. "I'm just really happy the university continues to show such confidence in me," Howland said. "I very much appreciate that. It makes me feel great. I feel very blessed. ... It's great when your bosses, the people you work for, recognize you and reward you. Believe me, it's very much appreciated by me and my family." Howland, 51, has received raises after each of the past three seasons in which UCLA has made the Final Four but failed to win the national championship. Howland made a base salary of $1.5 million last year. There's much more security to these contracts than Howland had in his first head-coaching gig Slang for "gigabyte" or "gigabit." See GB. gig - gigabyte at Northern Arizona Northern Arizona is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the southern border of which in Arizona is called the Mogollon Rim. In the West lies the Grand Canyon, which was cut by the flow of the Colorado River while the land slowly rose around it. , where he had one-year deals the first three years. "I'm always motivated mo·ti·vate tr.v. mo·ti·vat·ed, mo·ti·vat·ing, mo·ti·vates To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel. mo and worried about the worst-case scenario worst-case scenario n → Schlimmstfallszenario nt , which is losing your job," Howland said. "I'm always worried about job security. I don't think in our business there's any other way to look at it. John Brady (the ex-LSU coach) played against us in the Final Four three years ago, and he was fired midway through the year this year. You look around. It's a volatile profession." jill.painter@dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Ben Howland went 35-4 in 2007-08. |
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