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Post by Rush the Court on Jun 4, 2010 20:29:03 GMT -5
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Post by Raider4Life on Jun 7, 2010 13:11:16 GMT -5
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Post by Glory Days on Jun 14, 2010 7:25:48 GMT -5
June 13, 2010 McKenna era over at ISUTodd Golden TERRE HAUTE — The Kevin McKenna era at Indiana State is over. Several sources with knowledge of the situation, all of whom declined to be identified until an official announcement is made, have confirmed to the Tribune-Star that ISU men’s basketball coach Kevin McKenna will leave ISU to take a job on Dana Altman’s staff at the University of Oregon. The official announcement from ISU is expected today. Calls placed to McKenna and Director of Athletics Ron Prettyman were not returned as of press time. The ISU coaching staff met with the ISU players on Sunday and confirmed the news that McKenna would be leaving the program. McKenna coached at ISU for three seasons. His record with the Sycamores was 43-52. After two losing seasons, ISU finished 17-15 and tied for fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference in 2010, its first winning season in nine years. The Sycamores received a bid to the College Basketball Invitational as a result. McKenna replaced Royce Waltman in March 2007 and got the job after a month-long search. McKenna worked on Altman’s staff at Creighton for nine years over two different periods. This is the second time McKenna has left a head coaching position to return to an Altman-coached team. McKenna coached Nebraska-Omaha from 2001 to 2005 before he left that job to return to the Bluejays, where he also played and was an All-Missouri Valley Conference player. Altman was hired at Oregon from Creighton in April. tribstar.com/breakingnews/x1910038394/McKenna-to-leave-ISU
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Post by Glory Days on Jun 14, 2010 14:29:53 GMT -5
INDIANA STATE WASTES NO TIME: TABS ASSISTANT LANSING Monday, June 14, 2010 Indiana State wasted little time replacing head coach Kevin McKenna by tabbing Sycamores assistant Greg Lansing. Lansing, according to multiple sources, will be officially introduced at a news conference on Tuesday. McKenna opted to join new Oregon head coach Dana Altman on his staff as an assistant over the weekend. Lansing has been the associate head coach at Indiana State since McKenna took over and is in his second stint with the program. He also spent seven seasons at New Mexico as an assistant The Sycamores were 17-15 this past season – their first winning season since 2001 - despite losing starting guard Jake Kelly to a season-ending knee injury in the league opener. community.foxsports.com/goodmanonfox/blog/?pref_tab=blog
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Post by Rush the Court on Jun 15, 2010 19:51:03 GMT -5
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Post by Rush the Court on Jul 5, 2010 19:14:46 GMT -5
July 5, 2010 Heath, South Florida agree to extensionTAMPA, Fla. -- South Florida basketball coach Stan Heath has agreed to a three-year contract extension after leading the Bulls to their most successful season since entering the Big East. USF went 20-13 on the way to earning a spot in the National Invitation Tournament. In three seasons under Heath, the Bulls have a 41-54 record. Heath signed a five-year contract worth up to $4.275 million in 2007. The extension announced Monday runs through 2015. South Florida finished 9-9 in the Big East before losing to North Carolina State in the opening round of the NIT. The Bulls had never won more than four conference games in a season. sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5356383
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Post by Raider Fanatic on Jul 20, 2010 20:08:24 GMT -5
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Post by Big D on Jul 21, 2010 19:51:03 GMT -5
Marist-JMU case may alter handling of coaching dealsJuly 20, 2010 By Gary Parrish The decision was made public Monday with zero national headlines. Nothing over at ESPN.com. Nothing in USA Today. Nothing here. And yet a quote from an attorney representing the plaintiff, Marist College, suggested the ruling handed down by New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles D. Wood might lead to many national headlines. "This case could well set a precedent for college and university athletics," Marist attorney Paul O. Sullivan said in a released statement. "Coaches have to abide by contracts, and other institutions have to respect those agreements. If that contract is breached, damages will be assessed. It's a simple lesson in fiduciary responsibility and contractual obligation.” The first sentence from that quote -- This case could well set a precedent for college and university athletics -- makes the 11-page ruling involving Marist, James Madison and the coach (Matt Brady) who left the former for the latter worth addressing here. It's a ruling that should be a warning to all college coaches and schools pursuing college coaches that almost every contract has fine print, and that the days of violating the fine print without repercussions are over if the school being left opts to pursue damages. Which is exactly what Marist did here. The background is that Brady signed a new contract with Marist in 2008 shortly before engaging in talks with and eventually accepting the same job at James Madison. Marist contended Brady's contract required him to receive written consent before negotiating with another school and forbade him from offering "a scholarship to current Marist basketball players or to any persons that he or his staff recruited to play at Marist" if he ever took another job. Brady clearly negotiated with James Madison without "written" consent, and Marist compiled a list of 19 prospects Brady once recruited on behalf of Marist that it believed he should've been unable to recruit to James Madison per the details of his contract. (Four players on that list -- Julius Wells, Trevon Flores, Andrey Semenov and Devon Moore -- ultimately signed with James Madison.) Long story shortened, Marist filed a lawsuit against James Madison and the Commonwealth of Virginia in July 2009. On Monday, it was announced that Judge Wood has ruled in favor of Marist's claims that Brady had an enforceable contract when he discussed leaving Marist with James Madison, that James Madison knew of the contract's existence, that James Madison intentionally induced Brady to violate his fiduciary obligations under the contract, and that Marist suffered damages as a result of the breach of those obligations. Brady has yet to offer comment on the ruling. Marist has a separate civil suit against him still pending. So let this be a lesson for all coaches and every school that will spend next March and April pursuing other schools' coaches. Sports contracts have details about what can and cannot be done that are ignored annually, but, turns out, those details do not have to be ignored. What Marist has shown is that if a strong president and athletic director want to seek damages for a breach of contract by a coach, they can seek damages for a breach of contract by a coach. What Marist has also shown is that the case can be won. Damages are expected to be assessed next week. www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/13656382/maristjmu-case-may-alter-handling-of-coaching-deals?tag=coverlist_footer;coverlist_photo_content
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Post by Hoops Junkie on Aug 18, 2010 19:29:41 GMT -5
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Post by Hoops Junkie on Aug 26, 2010 18:49:16 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Country on Nov 18, 2010 19:40:23 GMT -5
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