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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 2773752, member: 2524"] Agreed. However, if KO needs money, and UConn didn't make a large settlement offer, it's easy to see why he's fighting. Bottom line, he appears to have found he didn't enjoy being a college head coach. If he can't succeed as a college head coach, the chances he will succeed as an NBA head coach are slim. Therefore his ceiling is assistant coach. Entry level NBA assistants, which is what KO can hope for next and which he may or may not succeed at, make $300k or so. College assistant coaches, the other option, make $100-250k. So his earning prospects are $100k-$300k for 3-4 years until he either washes out or proves himself, with a chance at more or a chance at less. Unless he gets a big paycheck from UConn, he is going to have to radically pare back his lifestyle and his sense of entitlement. KO is 45 years old. If he works until 65, he has 20 years of potential $200k/year earnings or $4 mn in future earnings, but a lot of hard work to get it. If he thinks a lawsuit might get him a significant fraction of $10 mn, say $3-4 mn, he's doubling his lifetime income. If he loses, and if his lawyers are working on contingency, then he's only lost his pride and maybe a slight hit to future earnings through reputational loss. He may feel that by fighting he's risking 10% of $4 mn future earnings to win a labor-free $4 mn. He only needs a 10% chance of winning to make the fight worthwhile. [/QUOTE]