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Friday, April 11, 2008 --- 105 days ago http://blogs.jsonline.com/muhoops/archive/2008/04/11/williams-in-legal-dispute.a
| A legal battle involving Marquette University coach Buzz Williams' tenure at the University of New Orleans, where he served as head coach for one year, has surfaced.
The dispute involves a lawsuit Williams filed in New Orleans last year in which he alleged UNO breached his contract. Williams left New Orleans last year after one year to become an assistant coach at Marquette under then head coach Tom Crean.
Since then, UNO has alleged that Williams left the school without paying a $300,000 buyout.
On Friday, ESPN.com reported that Marquette, which hired Williams this week to replace the Indiana-bound Crean, had agreed to pay the $300,000 buyout.
That was news to Williams' New Orleans-based attorney Henry King. In an e-mail to the Journal Sentinel, King said he could not confirm that report, adding that it was his position that "no monies are owed to UNO."
"We believe Mr. Williams' claims will be deemed meritorious and the UNO's counter-claim will be dismissed. UNO made many promises that it was unable to keep."
Caught in the middle, apparently, is Marquette. Steve Cottingham, Marquette's athletic director, acknowledged that Williams had made Marquette aware of the legal fight while he was being interviewed for the Marquette job.
Asked if MU was prepared to pay at least a portion of Williams' buyout in New Orleans, Cottingham said: "We don't comment on the particulars of anybody's compensation arrangement. We're co ... |
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