USF seeking to deny Charlie Strong his contractually obligated buyout

[Watchdog]

Looks as if USF is, after the fact, trying to deny Charlie Strong his contractually obligated buyout of $2.988 Million.

"South Florida is interviewing former assistant coaches to see if former Bulls head coach Charlie Strong knowingly permitted any analysts or quality control personnel to conduct impermissible hands-on coaching, multiple sources told FootballScoop.

Sources said NCAA representatives joined USF compliance staffers in the interviews with former Bulls coaches.

The sources felt South Florida is engaging in an after-the-fact attempt to get out from under Strong’s contractually-obligated buyout in order to help with a coronavirus-induced budget crunch.

Strong was fired without cause in December after posting a 4-8 record in the 2019 season. He has since taken a defensive analyst position at Alabama."

.................................."What is peculiar is that multiple sources said South Florida AD Michael Kelly and USF compliance staffers regularly attended multiple practices per week, meaning any possible violations would have been clearly visible to all at the time.
However, with the knowledge Kelly and USF leadership had in December they did not seek to claim “cause” when firing Strong."

Sources: South Florida seeking to find cause to stop paying Charlie Strong's buyout

South Florida is interviewing former assistant coaches to see if former Bulls head coach Charlie Strong knowingly permitted any analysts or quality control

footballscoop.com

 

[kibblesnbits]

Interesting. I wonder if there is any legal precedent for claiming, "We had cause, we just didn't know it at the time we fired him." Seems pretty sketchy.

 

[JohnFSilver]

I think all non-P5 schools are going to start to try and weasel out of bad contracts. The days of aac schools paying near p5 money are over.

Usf, Cincy aren't going to have big money coaches anymore. Ucf probably will fall in line to0.

I think one of the reasons UConn ran up a big deficit over the past 5-6 years was precisely to show UConn could have a p5 budget.

UConn, typically, has the largest non P5 budget in the country. That was a differentiator. But now that p5 is gone, that should go down.

 

[Stinger92860]

Anyone here know of lawyer they would recommend to Charlie?

 

[hardcorehusky]

After USF threw for a touchdown on that fake kick at the end of our game last year, I hope he loses- classless.

 

[BlueDogs]

The world maybe is rebalancing with colleges realizing it’s insane to lock into guaranteed term contracts with no performance and big early termination payouts.