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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3390992, member: 1414"] I guess I completely disagree on what UConn [B]Should Do[/B]. They had a coach who had become lazy, and largely incompetent. He had stopped doing the job to the best of his ability. He had quit on UConn. He wasn't putting in the work recruiting, teaching players or even on the sidelines. As a result he needed to stop being our coach. So you think that a guy who stopped performing for two years and who got paid over $6M over those two years, was somehow owed $10M not to have to work at all? I can see no moral or ethical case for Kevin getting any money from UConn. I can see a case for him paying some back for being a total slacker while he was being paid. Fortunately, UConn drafted the contract well enough that some of Ollie's many transgressions allowed them to fire him for cause and not have to pay him not to work. Who expects to be paid not to work? Since when is that normal? Sure it applies in some contracts with athletes and coaches, but that's simply [U]the athlete applying the letter of the contract against the employer[/U]. The Red Sox paid Jose Offerman for several years after he stopped being able to play (and now Pedroia as well). That's not the team doing the "right thing". The right thing would see them not accepting that pay since they aren't earning it. Kevin is certainly not earning any money from UConn. [/QUOTE]