Mike Brey Signs Contract Extension Through 2024-25 Season

Mike Brey enters his 19th season as head coach at Notre Dame as the all-time winningest coach in program history and now has signed a three-year extension.  
    
The contract will keep Brey as the Irish head coach through the 2024-2025 season. 

“Mike Brey has built one of the most consistently successful programs in the country,” University Vice President and James E. Rohr Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick said in a University statement. “And the foundation of that success is a winning culture that develops the members of his teams as both basketball players and young men. He is a perfect fit for Notre Dame, and we are excited to have him lead our program well into the future.”

Brey echoed Swarbrick’s statement and also expressed no desire to leave the Notre Dame program. 

“My goal has always been to be good enough to retire as the head coach at Notre Dame,” Brey said. “It sure looks like I might be able to pull that off with this extension. I am truly honored and humbled to be the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. I want to sincerely thank Notre Dame president John Jenkins and Jack Swarbrick for their steadfast support and commitment to our program.

“I’m proud of what our program has achieved in the past 18 years, and I could not be more excited about what the future holds.”

The extension will begin on July 1, 2018, and will run through June 30, 2025. Brey's previous contract was set to expire in 2021-22. 

If Brey does finish out the contract, it would mark 25 years as the head coach of the Irish. 

Digger Phelps and George E. Keogan coached 20 years at Notre Dame. Only six active men’s basketball coaches have been at their current school for 25 years or more as the 2018-19 season approaches.