{"id":24038,"date":"2001-05-12T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2001-05-12T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/05\/12\/sauer-contract-not-extended-still-has-3-years-left\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:16","slug":"sauer-contract-not-extended-still-has-3-years-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/05\/12\/sauer-contract-not-extended-still-has-3-years-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauer Contract Not Extended; Still Has 3 Years Left"},"content":{"rendered":"
Despite leading Wisconsin within a game of the Frozen Four, Badgers coach Jeff Sauer did not have his contract extended by the school’s athletic board on Friday.<\/p>\n
It’s the second time in three years Sauer’s contract has not been extended. The 30-year collegiate coach still has three years remaining on his contract, but extensions are generally given at the close of the season.<\/p>\n
“It’s basically a signal that not everything is where we would like it to be,” Wisconsin athletics director Pat Richter told Andy Baggot of the Wisconsin State Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sauer’s Badgers defeated Providence in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but lost to Michigan State in the quarterfinal round. The season was largely a disappointment for the Badgers, the 1999-2000 WCHA regular-season champions who were expected to compete for the title again.<\/p>\n
Instead, they finished fifth in the WCHA, and lost the Final Five play-in game to Colorado College. They ended the season with an overall record of 22-15-4.<\/p>\n
Sauer admitted he has talked with Richter, a former member of the NCAA Ice Hockey Committee, about retirement, but said he wants to work through the end of his contract.<\/p>\n
“From my point of view, I have a contract until 2004, and that’s fine,” Sauer told the State Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Sauer’s contract was also not extended after the Badgers went 15-19-4 in 1998-99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite leading Wisconsin within a game of the Frozen Four, Badgers coach Jeff Sauer did not have his contract extended by the school’s athletic board on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n