One day, two vastly different moves in the CAA.

While Hofstra was firing Tim Welsh following Friday's DWI arrest, Northeastern was rewarding coach Bill Coen with a multiyear contract extension.

Jeff Goodman of Foxsports.com is reporting that the deal is for six seasons. Here's guessing that Coen, previously a candidate for the openings at Boston College and Siena, will get a major-conference job long before the deal expires.

Few mid-major coaches in the northeast have fared better over the past several years than Coen, who, way back in 2006, interviewed for the Fairfield job that ended up going to fellow BC assistant Ed Cooley.

Interestingly, while Al Skinner was recently fired at BC, both Coen and Cooley have fared exceptionally well over the past four seasons. Both won 20 or more games last year -- Cooley went 23-11 at Fairfield and Coen 20-13 at Northeastern -- and both have now received multiyear extensions.

Coen, who athletic director Peter Roby praised as "a terrific coach and educator", has taken the Huskies to the postseason in back-to-back years -- to the CBI quarterfinals in 2008-09 and to the NIT, where they nearly upset UConn, this past season.