Butler's Brad Stevens to be Next Boston Celtics Head Coach

Fans of Butler Bulldog basketball are not going to be happy with this news, but they will have to admit that it couldn't happen to a better man. Their head coach of six seasons, Brad Stevens, is moving on to bigger and better things as the next head coach of the Boston Celtics.

The announcement was made on Wednesday that Stevens was leaving Butler for Boston:

"Our family is thrilled for the opportunity given to us by the leadership of the Boston Celtics, but it is emotional to leave a place that we have called home for the past 13 years," said Stevens.

"We truly love Butler University and Indianapolis, and are very thankful to have had the opportunity to celebrate so many wonderful things together. What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with. When it comes time for our kids to look at schools, we will start with Butler University."

Stevens is exactly the kind of coach that a rebuilding Boston franchise needs. During his six seasons with the Bulldogs he took a small, relatively unknown program and turned them into a national title contender playing for it in back to back seasons (2009-10 and 2010-11).

He will be the kind of coach that will get the most out of whatever talent the team has, and since they have been trying to trade it all away he may not have much to work with. The good thing is that he is just 36 and accustomed to not working with much after coaching at a small, private school for the last six seasons (Butler's enrollment is around 4500 students). 

His relative youth should help him relate to the young players he is going to be working with--because the Celtics are not going to have anything else on their roster for the next couple of seasons.