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Nothing if fired for cause. That's where the fight is and the negotiations for the actual amount paid.
To say Louisville has recklessly prioritized on-field success regardless of cost or image would be an understatement...
Tell me where I am wrong here. Louisville made a statement yesterday regarding the investigation. Illinois made a statement regarding the investigation. You think the statement was the correct move.
as in amount remaining on contract or actual buyout amount?
frozenrope9190
- Aurora, IL
I do. Well maybe I do. If he legitimately committed to Louisville, then it sucks he and all the other players that played fair are going to be punished. I feel for all the kids affected by this that are innocent. Of course, sucks that he flipped so late, but kids are kids.
Of course, if it comes out later Louisville gave him some cash to flip over, then I will not feel sorry whatsoever. I prefer the innocent before proven guilty stand though.
From the article... "Pence predicts that Pitino would prevail in a legal struggle over his reported $44 million buyout,"
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Jeebus, Louisville, just close the program down for a while and let the Yum center air out.
Chris OttsVerified account @christopherotts 9m9 minutes ago
Months before $160m deal, Tom Jurich's daughter got a job at adidas
http://www.wdrb.com/story/36464932/...60-million-deal-with-university-of-louisville
Chris OttsVerified account @christopherotts 9m9 minutes ago
Months before $160m deal, Tom Jurich's daughter got a job at adidas
http://www.wdrb.com/story/36464932/...60-million-deal-with-university-of-louisville
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
I looked through his entire contract and could not find anywhere it states that he has a buyout like that. Even if he did, seems hard to justify how his firing wouldn't constitute under the "just cause" section.
http://media.bizj.us/view/img/8556042/pitino-current-contract.pdf
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This isn't six degrees of Kevin Bacon. BU (and thus UI) is only six months removed from a direct working relationship with a named defendant. BU's name can be found in stories published by national news outlets. It's not just people on this board that are making the connection.
Like has been said already, the worst possible thing you can do when the Tribune, or ESPN, or the blowhards from the Score call asking for a quote, is to say "No comment".
Be swift. Be transparent(ish). Silence leads to speculation.
Last try at this.
I was pointing out that by your given example, one could infer that by suggesting a similar track as Louisville, you felt we were also culpable. That was the ENTIRE point I was trying to make. Not that you believed we were as guilty as Louisville, but that the inference could so easily be made by using Louisville as your example.
That is, again, the whole point regarding making a statement. Look at the other schools that came out yesterday. Which ones were the most covered/re-posted/re-tweeted? The schools of the arrested assistants and Louisville. By also releasing a statement we acted in concordance with the obviously guilty schools. That is bad optics.
Not yet. Schools with clear ties are being hounded by press & will need to say something very soon. This is staying a step ahead of the media.
Pitino fired
I actually have nothing against Pitino. I don't root for him but basketball has been better with him in it over the last 30 years. The Lattener shot in the tourney was probably the greatest game ever played, the Celtics flameout ("Larry Bird isn't walking through that door"), the all white suite, the extramarital affair and ensuing abortion with an assistant's wife, the battles with Calipri, the prostitution ring with recruits... Man, just writing this makes me already miss him.
Ransom Stoddard
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- Bloomington, IL
I'm having more fun imagining Pitino being unemployed--and hopefully unpaid. I'll enjoy any Pearl schadenfreude when the time comes.
You are trying to build a strawman that people deny or do not know that BU knows Lamant Evans, and knows him very well. That is not the case. The issue is about the press release, and the need to emphasize that link.
The only schools that issued press releases or official statements were the ones where the defendants and people prosecuted had served as coaches, assistants, players, employees, administrators, etc. ... AND Illinois, which apparently "monitors" the situation (whatever that means, especially to recruits and future recruits).
What does "monitor" even mean? That if somehow BU is implicated we may take appropriate action? We will do that anyway, we need an official statement a priori? It is just an invitation for negative recruiting.
Yes because it gets it out of here. I'm only here to see how the mighty have fallen.
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Just saw an unmarked police car roll up to Yum. Guy came out of building with desk top computer than leave
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Just saw an unmarked police car roll up to Yum. Guy came out of building with desk top computer than leave
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U of L presser will be on here live -- think at 12 CT.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/36457982/...on-investigation-of-u-of-l-basketball-program
http://www.wdrb.com/story/36457982/...on-investigation-of-u-of-l-basketball-program
No, it is choosing from among multiple optics. Remaining silent sounds like a cover-up. Shrieking our innocence just begs the media to skewer us. We took the third choice - a statement that manages to appear transparent without really revealing anything. There was no perfect choice, but ours was a good one.
Ransom Stoddard
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- Bloomington, IL
^^^:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:
In today's media climate, there's no doubt in my mind that the DIA was fielding a lot of questions on this. Now they can have a single, consistent statement that's way better than a bunch of individual "no comment" responses.
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