University of Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle and women’s basketball coach Linda Lappe are expected to put the ink to contract extensions soon. The school’s Board of Regents approved extensions for the second-year coaches during its regular meeting Wednesday on the CU-Colorado Springs campus.
The contract extensions for Boyle and Lappe go through April 30, 2016. Both contracts include increased bonus potential if their players perform well both in the classroom and on the court.
Boyle and Lappe, both hired in April 2010, have brought some life back to struggling programs while making winning transitions from the Big 12 Conference to the Pac-12.
The CU men’s team is 38-21 under Boyle, 14-7 this season.
“I’m extremely happy personally. My family is in a great place. … The Boulder community has been great to the Boyle family,” Boyle said after Tuesday’s practice.
Lappe, a former player at CU for legendary coach Ceal Barry, is 33-21 at CU so far, 15-5 this season.
“I love Colorado. That’s why I came back,” Lappe said. “It’s a place that I loved being a student at for five years.”
CU is proposing that both Boyle and Lappe earn a 3 percent merit raise, increasing their base salaries to $165,830. Boyle’s compensation package is unchanged and amounts to nearly $429,000. Lappe’s compensation package is the same as before and amounts to $124,980 a year. Ryan Thorburn,
Lacrosse added. CU will add women’s lacrosse beginning in the spring of 2014.
That will give the school 17 sports, nine men’s teams and eight women’s.
