(03-08-2018 11:33 AM)Wedge Wrote:  It's that time of year again. As always, full-time hires only on this list.

Louisville
OUT: Rick Pitino (fired before season)
IN:

Ole Miss
OUT: Andy Kennedy (forced resignation)
IN:

Pittsburgh
OUT: Kevin Stallings (fired)
IN:

(03-08-2018 12:43 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  Buyout included, Pittsburgh paid Stallings $544k per win.

Quote:Pitt presented Stallings with what amounted to a settlement, a reduced buyout that 93.7 The Fan reported to be $4.8 million, or the option of being fired with cause. He accepted neither, and the two sides have yet to agree on terms of a buyout.

On Friday, Stallings’ lawyers, Scott Tompsett and Jim Lieber, released a statement denying reports of a $7.5 million buyout offered to Stallings by Pitt and said the actual number offered is “far less.”

“Mr. Lieber and I vehemently disagree with reports from unnamed sources that Pitt has cause to terminate Coach Stallings’ contract for cause based on comments Coach Stallings made at the Louisville game over two months ago on January 2, 2018,” the statement read. “It is our position that Coach Stallings is due and owed his full contract buyout.”

(03-09-2018 05:49 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Pitt is trying to force Stallings to take much less than his buyout amount.

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/Pitt/2018/03/09/kevin-stallings-pitt-coaching-search-heather-lyke-athletic-director-louisville/stories/201803090157

Quote:Pitt presented Stallings with what amounted to a settlement, a reduced buyout that 93.7 The Fan reported to be $4.8 million, or the option of being fired with cause. He accepted neither, and the two sides have yet to agree on terms of a buyout.

On Friday, Stallings’ lawyers, Scott Tompsett and Jim Lieber, released a statement denying reports of a $7.5 million buyout offered to Stallings by Pitt and said the actual number offered is “far less.”

“Mr. Lieber and I vehemently disagree with reports from unnamed sources that Pitt has cause to terminate Coach Stallings’ contract for cause based on comments Coach Stallings made at the Louisville game over two months ago on January 2, 2018,” the statement read. “It is our position that Coach Stallings is due and owed his full contract buyout.”

(03-08-2018 12:14 PM)JRsec Wrote:  You'll probably be able to add Fox at Georgia to that list if they lose to Missouri tonight.

(03-11-2018 07:30 PM)Dasville Wrote:  Coach Pitino will receive somewhere between $13-28 million buyout/settlement/court victory/some combo of the former. IMO of course.

(03-12-2018 11:11 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 07:30 PM)Dasville Wrote:  Coach Pitino will receive somewhere between $13-28 million buyout/settlement/court victory/some combo of the former. IMO of course.

It's in the university's interest to fight it, however much he ultimately gets. They don't want to appear complicit in the money pipeline from adidas, and they don't know what else from the FBI investigation will be revealed.

Who are the candidates Louisville is looking at? Or are they just going to let Padgett continue?

(03-12-2018 12:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  As for how other schools have responded to the FBI investigation: Arizona is taking a risk, IMO. It's not disputed that the FBI has recordings of Miller phone conversations with the agent Dawkins. Miller only claims that what ESPN's sources claim is on those recordings is not exactly what was said, and it seems doubtful that Miller knew nothing of what his assistants were doing. Alabama, Auburn, Miami, and USC are taking lesser risks because they have dismissed anyone who was indicted and, as far as we know, the head coaches were not caught on any FBI recordings.

But others are taking risks to some degree, maybe not investigating and just hoping that the FBI doesn't have anything on them, because it stands to reason that if shoe companies and street agents are allegedly willing to pay six figures to direct a player to Louisville or Arizona, they would allegedly do the same for other programs that have elite one-and-done players, such as Duke, UNC, Kansas, or Kentucky.

Quote:Louisville formally informed interim coach David Padgett that they will be finding someone else to fill the head basketball coach position on a permanent basis, Padgett told 247Sports.

"They are going in a different direction," Padgett said. "They appreciated my efforts and everything I did with this team and to make it a good situation, obviously they wished me nothing but the best and I feel the same about the university."