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New court filings name former UConn standouts Rodney Purvis, Sterling Gibbs, Terry Larrier in Kevin Ollie case

Anyone want to elaborate on the lifestyle of KO that made this or any other similar role incapable of him handling? Other than that, I think everything else has been spelled out.
 
August_West said:
Not more than 10 mil.

And they wouldnt to you either. Stop pretending you would leave 10 million on the table because of loyalty.

I could turn you into a Syracuse fan for 500 bucks and a slice of ghost train haze.
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It's not just about $10mm. It's about reputation, both personally and professionally. If he didn't go nuclear, he could have gotten another job to chip into the $10mm earnings. He could have taken a year off, got himself together and got a gig as an assistant making a few hundred grand per year. Instead all of his earnings are weighing on winning in arbitration or suing for discrimination. He hurt himself in the long term hoping for a short term payoff. Seems like a big red flag that he's not willing to change his behavior
 
August_West said:
Not more than 10 mil.

And they wouldnt to you either. Stop pretending you would leave 10 million on the table because of loyalty.

I could turn you into a Syracuse fan for 500 bucks and a slice of ghost train haze.
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Pretty sure he wouldn't push away/treat like old dirty laundry someone who gave him everything and was a father figure to him, don't think many would.
 
JMick said:
It's not just about $10mm. It's about reputation, both personally and professionally. If he didn't go nuclear, he could have gotten another job to chip into the $10mm earnings.
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He was fired for cause. His personal and professional reputation were hit right then. Made his decision much easier to go to the mattresses.
 
August_West said:
He was fired for cause. His personal and professional reputation were hit right then. Made his decision much easier to go to the mattresses.
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UConn went easy on him. They could have just got into a beat reporters ear and started unloading about personal drama if they really wanted to
 
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August_West said:
They can do it now.
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I'm sure they don't want to make this into any bigger of a show than it already is. Is arbitration FOI-able? If so, we'll probably hear about it then.
 
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superjohn said:
I'm talking about Ollie treating Calhoun like dirt years ago.
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Ok, good. Yup that's sad. Feel bad for that as a UConn fan. Love those 2 guys. It was a fairy tale story for 20 years between them. Sad to see it go sour.

But since that happened long before the firing then doesnt that make Jmicks case of KO forgoing a 10 million buyout out of loyalty to Calhoun a really crazy position?
 
JMick said:
Mark Gottfried got another job. If he can, anyone can
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Your better options are:

1. Pearl
2. Fisher
3. Samson

But in each of those cases there are important differences...
 
superjohn said:
They don't need to and it makes the University look like the National Enquirer. They were justified in firing him for cause. Ollie sucked, cheated and lied to the NCAA.
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The university already looks bad to everyone thats not a UConn fan. This process has made us a bigger laughingstock than weve already become in every other area. Might as well go all in. UConn opened up the nuclear option, KO returned in kind, and now you want to tell me that UConn is having a fit of altruism?

Cmon man.

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August_West said:
Ok, good. Yup that's sad. Feel bad for that as a UConn fan. Love those 2 guys. It was a fairy tale story for 20 years between them. Sad to see it go sour.

But since that happened long before the firing then doesnt that make Jmicks case of KO forgoing a 10 million buyout out of loyalty to Calhoun a really crazy position?
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It's not just $10mm. It's future earnings. Of which he's likely not to have now. How do you earn well over $30mm in your career and still need $10mm that badly?
 
JMick said:
UConn went easy on him. They could have just got into a beat reporters ear and started unloading about personal drama if they really wanted to
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Doing that would make the university look pretty bad too.
 
JMick said:
It's not just $10mm. It's future earnings. Of which he's likely not to have now. How do you earn well over $30mm in your career and still need $10mm that badly?
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This is our fundamental disagreement.

1) How do you know he still wants to be a college coach?
2) How do you know that a man fighting for his money and reputation will sour schools from looking at him further than already being soured by being tagged for cause by his former employer? Maybe it does hurt more, maybe not. Question is, how do you measure it? What are the degrees from one scenario to the next? You dont know, I dont know. Nobody knows.
 
Stainmaster said:
It's not as if those coaches have no responsibilities besides "show up at the arena from 6:30-10:30, and do whatever the hell you want before and after." They still have scouting, game-planning, and player development work that they need to engage in outside of games. Ollie's lifestyle clearly inhibited him from doing those things here; I think that would still be a problem even if he had a smaller share of the workload.
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A response, albeit a well-nuanced, non-specific dodge sans clear examples of your prior cited “lifestyle choices”. Dodge UConn 1L.
 
August_West said:
This is our fundamental disagreement.

1) How do you know he still wants to be a college coach?
2) How do you know that a man fighting for his money and reputation will sour schools from looking at him further than already being soured by being tagged for cause by his former employer? Maybe it does hurt more, maybe not. Question is, how do you measure it? What are the degrees from one scenario to the next? You dont know, I dont know. Nobody knows.
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Of course it's hard to know the extent unless you can look into the future. But the entire thing situation looks like an emotional warpath instead of a calculated career move.
 
August_West said:
The university already looks bad to everyone thats not a UConn fan. This process has made us a bigger laughingstock than weve already become in every other area. Might as well go all in. UConn opened up the nuclear option, KO returned in kind, and now you want to tell me that UConn is having a fit of altruism?

Cmon man.

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They fired him for cause which they are fully within their rights to do as per the contract Ollie signed. Ollie is the desperate one as evidenced by his racism claims. Dragging all the shady cr@p Ollie pulled while employed by them does nobody any good.
 
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superjohn said:
They fired him for cause which they are fully within their rights to do as per the contract Ollie signed. Ollie is the desperate one as evidenced by his racism claims. Dragging all the shady cr@p Ollie pulled while employed by them does nobody any good.
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And KO's team is calling that bluff as is his right. Seems he's willing to let them take a swipe at him. If UConn doesnt want to do it, thats on them.
 
August_West said:
And KO's team is calling that bluff as is his right. Seems he's willing to let them take a swipe at him. If UConn doesnt want to do it, thats on them.
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Of course UConn doesn't want to make it Jerry Springer. You think any of this is benefitting Ollie?!?? Dude has taken a flamethrower to everything, doubt the guy picks up the pieces.
 
superjohn said:
Of course UConn doesn't want to make it Jerry Springer. You think any of this is benefitting Ollie?!?? Dude has taken a flamethrower to everything, doubt the guy picks up the pieces.
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“ when you ain’t got nothing you got nothing to lose”
 
JMick said:
It's not just $10mm. It's future earnings. Of which he's likely not to have now. How do you earn well over $30mm in your career and still need $10mm that badly?
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By spending every dime you ever had and then some.
 
August_West said:
Who woulda thunk that a tenuous application of cause could cause such a scalitoshow.

I’m shocked.
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You realize that "just cause", as defined in the multi-million dollar contract that Kevin signed after his lawyer review,is incredibly well established, right? Have you noticed that KO's representation isn't denying anything and instead is making collateral arguments? If so, why do you think that is?
 
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