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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 2621745, member: 1047"] Here is the thing. Either the university is justified in applying the "Cause" to get out of the buyout, or they are not. If they are justified in applying cause, then there is no reason the university should settle. They can save 10 million dollars. If they weren't justified in applying the cause clause then Ollie should actually get his 10 million. I think the university jerking around with half-measures (if that is what they are in fact doing) is going to cost us in the long run with prospective coaches either through heavier front loaded contracts where people in absence of buyout guarantees will want Bonuses up front (and any coach worth their salt will be able to demand this) because we can't be trusted to not play dirty. Forget Ollie he's gone. I dont care anymore. Has nothing to do with the decision to let him go. Right now Im watching how this administration handles this, and does anybody really have confidence in this administration not absolutely making this a giagantic clusterf%$# where we alienate top coaches with a transparent end around? If UConn has cause and it sticks for cause, stay with it and save the 10 million and then this whole thing doesnt have stink all over it. Otherwise pay the man his money. Trust me . I get that the 1000 lawyers on this board are going to say "Everything is a negotiation" and it is. I get it. But all Im saying is this "negotiation" has some potentially pretty terrible optics for this University that can only be guaranteed to not possibly come back and bite us by either being justified in the show cause application they are trying to apply, or paying the buyout. [/QUOTE]

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