District Court rules against Kevin Ollie

[businesslawyer]

For what it's worth, I would be shocked if the case wasn't proceeding on a contingency fee basis where it's not costing KO anything unless and until he receives a cash judgment or settlement. I don't know anything, but just from looking at his lawyer's firm's webpage it is clearly a contingency fee based practice.

 

[August_West]

Well there's always the nuclear option where he spills the beans on any potential improprieties witnessed as an assistant (if they exist). But then he'd really never coach again

Glen the cheese eating rat Miller has a job already.

 

[Chief00]

Probably less so than if his representation hadn't decided to try to leverage negative statements in the media as a negotiation technique. I wonder if Ollie has been well served by those flawed attempts at grandstanding?

The “long game” is based on what life expectancy tables?

 

[Madmannsucks]

If I am reading this wrong, show me. It appears this ruling is really nothing.

 

[Chief00]

So this brings me back to one of his attorney’s bragging down the Big East tournament how he was going to demolish UConn. I wonder how much of this is face saving for the legal team? Wait until this becomes quietly meaningless and then just let things fade away. However, losing cases doesn’t lower the profile. So it’s really baffling what their goal is?

 

[KembaStepback]

To me, its a lot of money and worth pursuing if he thinks he really has a chance. NBA will be there when he's ready. I would think a bunch of teams would take him as an assistant.

 

[Madmannsucks]

To me, its a lot of money and worth pursuing if he thinks he really has a chance. NBA will be there when he's ready. I would think a bunch of teams would take him as an assistant.

Yeah or ESPN. Not like he is inarticulate. I mean they took Lavin among many others.

 

[Austin316]

This crap feels like an episode of Maury.

 

[gtcam]

If I am reading this wrong, show me. It appears this ruling is really nothing.

Correct
If you read it, it does leave doors open but nothing in the immediate future
All these folks celebrating it are puzzling
I just wish there would be no more postings involving the lawsuit - it brings out the worse in folks

 

[Chief00]

Correct
If you read it, it does leave doors open but nothing in the immediate future
All these folks celebrating it are puzzling
I just wish there would be no more postings involving the lawsuit - it brings out the worse in folks

If the ruling is about nothing - why did KO’s Dream Team ask for it in the first place?

The judge seemed frustrated because she can’t rule on hypotheticals but that’s exactly what Team KO asked her to do.

 

[methodology]

Well there's always the nuclear option where he spills the beans on any potential improprieties witnessed as an assistant (if they exist). But then he'd really never coach again

Bruce pearl contradicts that theory. Illegally recorded a telephone conversation with a recruit he lost and had the recruit on tape admitting he got money and and SUV. He then turned over the tapes to the NCAA.

 

[CallMeBruce]

I'm bored by this story but I feel compelled to point out that while this is probably a sick zinger for a non-lawyer the ruling has zero to do with the merits of anything so Bilas is not the one who seems uninformed here.

Would be a sicker zinger if it weren't lifted from A Few Good Men

 

[UofCT]

To me, its a lot of money and worth pursuing if he thinks he really has a chance. NBA will be there when he's ready. I would think a bunch of teams would take him as an assistant.

He's better off coaching a YMCA travel team for 4th graders than NBA.

 

[CL82]

Would be a sicker zinger if it weren't lifted from A Few Good Men

Nah it works because you remember it from A Few Good Men.

 

[UConnNick]

If Vitale, Bilas and any other media types think the school should pay Ollie 10.7 million dollars for purely PR reasons, or out of some sense of tortured morality just because he's a nice guy, that's one thing. Insane, but whatever. If they think Ollie has any rational, legal basis for getting the money, they're just plain stupid. Vitale has an excuse because he is stupid. Bilas doesn't, since he's an attorney who should know better.

 

[krinklecut]

For what it's worth, I would be shocked if the case wasn't proceeding on a contingency fee basis where it's not costing KO anything unless and until he receives a cash judgment or settlement. I don't know anything, but just from looking at his lawyer's firm's webpage it is clearly a contingency fee based practice.

Works on contingency? No, money down!

 

[UConnNick]

Works on contingency? No, money down!

If any attorney(s) took this case on a contingency fee basis, they're even bigger idiots than Ollie. Working for nothing, or what might effectively work out to $25 or $50 per hour for a miniscule, nuisance value settlement, is not my idea of sound business judgment for any attorney.

 

[superjohn]

Yeah or ESPN. Not like he is inarticulate. I mean they took Lavin among many others.

He's not inarticulate but Lavin is certainly more articulate than Ollie.

 

[huskyrob1]

Well there's always the nuclear option where he spills the beans on any potential improprieties witnessed as an assistant (if they exist). But then he'd really never coach again

It's called mutual assured destruction. I hope for his sake he just drops this completely, fires his attorneys and gets a coaching job somewhere.

 

[husky8273]

For what it's worth, I would be shocked if the case wasn't proceeding on a contingency fee basis where it's not costing KO anything unless and until he receives a cash judgment or settlement. I don't know anything, but just from looking at his lawyer's firm's webpage it is clearly a contingency fee based practice.

they let the client decide whether to engage them on either a hourly fee basis or a contingency

 

[CL82]

If Vitale, Bilas and any other media types think the school should pay Ollie 10.7 million dollars for purely PR reasons, or out of some sense of tortured morality just because he's a nice guy, that's one thing. Insane, but whatever. If they think Ollie has any rational, legal basis for getting the money, they're just plain stupid. Vitale has an excuse because he is stupid. Bilas doesn't, since he's an attorney who should know better.

Vitale has cut run on this.

Not sure what's up with Bilas. I think he had a good one liner initially and later just kept running with it.

 

[Ukonnfan]

Ollie's attorney is playing the long game of bleeding his client of fees to get him nothing in the end.

The attorney is securing longer-term income.