U forgot about handing him 20 million on the way out.
No…5 million - whatever his next job pays, for the next 4 years. Slightly different. But an important distinction.
You assume someone would want to hire him at a comparable job
Well actually it is ours. If he can't get a good paying job IU owes the full buyout.
Sure they will. There’s got to be plenty of D2 or D3 jobs open this year. That’s comparable.
Then IU can sue him for a contract breach and/or refuse to pay the whole buyout.
Not a chance... He's blown his aura as a big time D.C. Our D has been huge part of the problem the last two years... He'll be lucky to get a sniff from Manchester...
He would be obligated, within a stated time frame, to seek another “comparable” job, but that’s typically simply another coaching position. It doesn’t need to be a head coaching position. His new salary would then be used as an offset versus what we would owe him. In other words, it’s going to cost us a ton of money to let him go, and we very likely wouldn’t have any legitimate case to breach our contractual obligations.
D2 or D3 won't knock the pay off down much. 100-200k a year? Not sure how much money is running around down at that level
Yeah, this isn’t a personal injury case or trying to fix a parking ticket.
He's always been an illusion. But we all drank the kool-aid. Including me.
I don't drink. Maybe you don't know how contracts and litigation work?
He has to "seek" comparable employment. He's not required to obtain it as that is clearly out of his control.
Wishful thinking. If he had to look for another job he could just show up in a bathrobe and unshaven. It's a contract between Indiana and Tom Allen - nobody else! He doesn't have to look for another job. He doesn't even have to put in a serious effort at Indiana! There are no performance requirements.
He’ll be a position coach somewhere, and probably a pretty good one.
Have you ever seen a judge's response to somebody who is supposed to seek work and fails to do so? IU can absolutely argue Allen should be working at a comparable job for the length of the contract. There is a reason mitigating clauses are parts of contracts, and Allen agreed to it.
No more extensions. If coaches want to leave you let them leave.
Yea it would be nice to see a body of success rather than a couple of years before forking over a ton of money.
Listening to the Hoosiers probably encourages a lot of daytime drinking. Imagine this: " you are fired but you have to look for another job so that I don't have to pay you everything that I promised you if you were fired". LOL!. Some serious denial going on here.
Walk us through your knowledge of his contract as well as the cases involving schools suing former coaches for not seeking employment. There’s a reason the odds of IU suing him are minuscule. Ask any lawyer and they’ll tell you.
