Kevin Ollie Settlement

[mrl2016]

Kevin Ollie to be awarded $3.9 million from UConn, State of CT

Former UConn men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie to be awarded $3.9 million for 'reputational harm.' from UConn, State of Connecticut.

www.ctinsider.com

Trouble understanding the article. Is this over and above the arbitration ruling?

 

[navery12]

Well this thread is gonna be fun. I give it an hour before it's locked

 

[BlueMAB]

Kevin Ollie to be awarded $3.9 million from UConn, State of CT

Former UConn men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie to be awarded $3.9 million for 'reputational harm.' from UConn, State of Connecticut.

www.ctinsider.com

Trouble understanding the article. Is this over and above the arbitration ruling?

Yes. The article says he was paid the $11 million arbitration ruling 2 weeks after it came down.

 

[HooperScooper]

Ollie today:

 

[WrenchFan69]

An all-time grift by this guy

 

[Palatine]

So what is it for?

 

[CL82]

Oddly enough, paying this guy $15 million not to coach the men’s basketball team anymore was probably one of the better investments the University has ever made.

 

[uconn13]

I clicked this thinking it was going to be about Ollie building a new house and where it was located, silly me!

 

[uconngb]

Oddly enough, paying this guy $15 million not to coach the men’s basketball team anymore was probably one of the better investments the University has ever made.

Sickens me, but glad it's finally over

 

[slepers]

Maybe His ex wife and mistress

 

[auror]

So what is it for?

Lawyers mostly.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Oddly enough, paying this guy $15 million not to coach the men’s basketball team anymore was probably one of the better investments the University has ever made.

That depended if they offered him the severance to go quietly
He would have jumped a 1+ million a year in 10 yearly installments. That a lot less painful and cheaper . There would have been no rift in the family and bitterness and UConn not only would have saved 3.9million but the legal fees and bad publicity.
Benedict screwed up in signing the extension ( 2016) without due diligence. Everyone but Benedict knew about KO’s state .
Then came up with crazy “for cause “ scorched earth plan. Dragging in UConn legends .
That’s failure of monumental proportions. Ollie needed an intervention not an extension.

 

[UCFan1513]

Whatever just go away for good now please

 

[BlueMAB]

An all-time grift by this guy

I don't think you know what that word means.

 

[BlueMAB]

He would have jumped a 1+ million a year in 10 yearly installments.

He told you this, or are you choosing to invent facts to support your opinion?

 

[aburks41]

Next step should be permanently banning him from ever stepping foot on Storrs. Good riddance with this loser.

 

[Austin316]

Time to bury the hatchet

 

[MexicoHusky]

I've never cared for the UCONN's approach to this case. I felt they signed a contract with someone. Then refused to honor the contract. Then manufactured slanderous reasons why they shouldn't honor the contract. Others obviously disagree with that statement, but in my opinion this is now legal fact.

I'm not impressed with my University

 

[BGesus4]

Next step should be permanently banning him from ever stepping foot on Storrs. Good riddance with this loser.

On what basis, him being a bad coach or getting every penny the courts deemed he was owed?

It was a calculated risk by the university to fire him for cause. Turned out to not be a great one.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Glad this is over. Genuinely never want to hear about it again. It is what it is.

 

[Phoenixhusky]

He needs to go away. Forever.

 

[polycom]

Pay the man his money. Once the school decided to run a losing case, we should have made this go away quietly. No foresight at all.

 

[donyell34]

Hung on much to long but it's over and time to let it go into the dust bin of history.

 

[uconngb]

I think it all proves how little we all know about the law on stuff like this (there were a few who nailed it). My armchair read was that he had no chance….. couldn’t have been more wrong. His lawyers knew what they were doing and are sure smiling now.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

So what is it for?

A street legal golf cart?

 

[Rico444]

On what basis, him being a bad coach or getting every penny the courts deemed he was owed?

It was a calculated risk by the university to fire him for cause. Turned out to not be a great one.

I think it's fair to believe these things at the same time:

1) He deserved to be paid his full contract based on the language and past precedent.
2) UConn made a mistake not just paying him from the start and washing their hands of him and the whole drama of this situation from the start.
3) Kevin Ollie stopped putting in any effort in his job and deserved to be fired.

Based on point 3, I have no issue with fans that don't ever want to see the guy in Gampel ever again.

 

[Fishy]

Kevin Ollie can fall in a volcano as far as I‘m concerned.

You can screw up in 500 different ways as a college football or basketball coach and the pros will hire you to their scouting departments or wherever….but not a single organization outside of a for-profit high school outfit was willing to hire this idiot for any reason.

 

[CL82]

That depended if they offered him the severance to go quietly
He would have jumped a 1+ million a year in 10 yearly installments. That a lot less painful and cheaper . There would have been no rift in the family and bitterness and UConn not only would have saved 3.9million but the legal fees and bad publicity.
Benedict screwed up in signing the extension ( 2016) without due diligence. Everyone but Benedict knew about KO’s state .
Then came up with crazy “for cause “ scorched earth plan. Dragging in UConn legends .
That’s failure of monumental proportions. Ollie needed an intervention not an extension.

This is just flat out wrong, but I have no desire to be what is now just the skeletal remains of the dead horse.

 

[CL82]

He deserved to be paid his full contract based

 

[superjohn]

Kevin Ollie can fall in a volcano as far as I‘m concerned.

You can screw up in 500 different ways as a college football or basketball coach and the pros will hire you to their scouting departments or wherever….but not a single organization outside of a for-profit high school outfit was willing to hire this idiot for any reason.

Volcanoes are for cowards.