Brad Stevens is a HOT commodity…

Tonight, his Butler team

plays a “second straight”

national championship game…

Last year, the basketball coach

with the "look" of “a GENTLE GEEK”

lost “The Big One”

to Mike Kyzyzewski AND Duke…

This year's “obstacles?”---

Jim Calhoun and Connecticut...

Stevens is 34 years old…

Soon, he's sure to be offered

“big-dollars” to coach at

more-famous schools...

I’m not positive Stevens

will be over-zealous to

depart Butler and

his "cozy coccon"...

MONEY is NOT

an overwhelming need...

Stevens is from a wealthy family…

MOM is a college professor…

Dad---an orthopedic surgeon…

Brad’s WIFE is a “labor lawyer”…

Stevens earned a degree

in “economics”…

He became “a rising star” with

Indianapolis “pharmaceuticals giant”

ELI LILLY---

but Brad "QUIT--to become a basketball coach”…

NOW in his fourth year as “Butler boss,”

Stevens is--“BELIEVE it or not”--having his

LOSINGEST season… 26 and NINE…

He will be "cautious" when

“big-time offers” appear…

Brad saw what happened to his

Butler PREDECESSOR---Todd Lickliter…

“HE” was “NATIONAL

COACH OF THE YEAR” four seasons ago…

Lickliter’s Bulldogs reached the

NCAA Sweet 16---losing to Florida Gators

“en route” to their second straight

National Championship…

High-powered universities came at

Lickliter with lots of cash...

He was hired by Iowa of the

Big Ten Conference...

Todd FLOPPED with

the Hawkeyes… his 38 and 58 record

"the WORST 3-year stretch" in

Iowa hoops history… Lickliter

got FIRED… THEN—last summer---

the ‘07 Coach of the Year

applied to run the basketball

program at---“Florida Gulf Coast College”

in Fort Myers…

Lickliter got TURNED DOWN…

Brad Stevens OBSERVED

“what CAN happen”…

It would NOT

be a HUGE SHOCK if he DECLINES

“fat-cash offers”---remaining at Butler…

I’m Hubert Mizell…and that’s what I think.