New construction that’s not bad. Cheaper than here in Atl.
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According to the termination letter obtained by ESPN, Anderson was fired for “failure to create and support an environment that strongly encourages student-athletes who are in the men’s basketball program to meet all university academic requirements,” “failure to perform your duties and responsibilities in a manner that reflected positively on St. John’s University … in actions [that] brought serious discredit” to the school and “failure to appropriately supervise and communicate with your assistant coaches.”
Other than the “serious discredit” bit, none of that is what I generally think of as “with cause.” Plus those things are so vague (how do you prove or disprove items 1 and 3?). I don’t know any of the background here but sounds like St. John’s put together a contract that gave them an easy out.
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That was a contract meant to be broken.
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He’s 4 years in, hasn’t made the tourney (in 3 chances), never made the Big East semis (despite playing it in his home arena), and has only one winning conference record. I think that’s a fine time to decide to move on (maybe one year early) and feel like you don’t owe the guy anymore, but then just put that stuff in the contract … but then you’d never get a decent coach to sign…
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Wait. SJ is trying to get out of paying Anderson for losing?
NVM - I see it.
They are giving him the Kevin Ollie treatment. Gee I wonder what those coaches have in common?
They will have to pay out his 10M anyway + court fees like UConn had to.
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It’s also a slap in the face that they feign concern about “encouraging an academic environment” and “reflecting well on the university” etc., and then replace him with… Rick Pitino.
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Not officially. Looks like they came up with other reasons.
It’s just a way to get him to settle for less. No way st. johns is going to take this court. The legal fees alone would be huge for both parties.
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Too late. Check the edit.
Filing a lawsuit is one way to kick off a negotiation…
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I doubt this was the first step in negotiations. This has been in the works for a while
Yeah, I know. Was just making a joke about suing someone being one type of negotiation.
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Have to make some assumptions here without the facts and evidence but this is a bad bet by SJ. Precedent has been set UConn already lost this battle. They should pay the man his money unless they have a long list of skeletons to show the Arbitrator.
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Also, seems like bad vibes given they haven’t signed Pitino yet
Brey ready for the beach.
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That is so on brand. Good for him bermuda shorts every day
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Interesting, I guessed FAU, b/c I didn’t know if he’d find it awkward to replace Brian Gregory (and I’m assuming Dusty May will get a better gig). But Brey’s daughter is apparently in Sarasota, so west coast (of Fla) makes more sense.
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Daughter in the area. Low tax regime on the state level. This sounds like a real R.I.P. situation.
Are you getting R.I.P. (retired in place) vibes from this move? He’ll be gone in 4 years after banking most of his (presumably) 10M+ from this contract. IMHO.
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Saw on other boards that Georgetown is pledging like 7 figures to an NIL fund for the new coach whoever it is. Rumored amount is $3 million.
Notre Dame seems to be down to Penn State coach, Colgate coach, and Drake coach. FAU coach has Indiana ties as well.
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Cooley’s coaching plus DMV recruiting could be a really good combo. I’d be mildly worried if we had ever had much success in the DMV… Nova should be worried…
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