Yesterday Purdue locked up Matt Painter through 2022. It was an important three-year extension and is commonly done for coaches that have been at a school awhile (In Painter's case he just finished his 11th season at Purdue) simply to assure he can tell recruits "Yes, I am not going anywhere while you're on campus. With a very important recruiting class to lock down for 2017 he can now tell those players he is signed through the end of their college careers. That is a small, but important distinction in the world of recruiting, and it was even part of the logic that Morgan Burke was thinking last year when he spoke of a potential extension for even Darrell Hazell (because Hazell only has three years left on his deal).
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