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Less than market value is one thing - their performance rates them “less than average” and the pay matches. Pigbert is volunteering, for the most part. That’s completely different. They’re taking advantage of the contract. I’m with Donk - Arky will win this one but the court fees will hurt. Most likely settle.
When you fire someone, you do damage their worth. McElstain is worth less now than say if he had taken the Oregon State job in 2016 or 2017. You can expect they may be below average at that point.
Taking an NFL job for less than a janitor makes in Boston however (and the amount being exactly the amount you can pocket) is a pretty easy call if Im the judge as evidence of lack of good faith.
If it were me defending the university (lets let Butters bc I know the situation better), I would argue that you damaged yourself by making false statements about the fanbase and publicly disparaging the AD. Essentially that you made yourself unemployable by malfeasance or misfeasance. Moroever, the product you put on the field damaged your own employability bc you were consistently poorly prepared and didnt bother to recruit until January. Again your own nonfeasance and misfeasance.
Yeah, I understand Donk’s point about McElwain’s false statements but let’s use Randy Shannon’s situation. The guy is making $250k because of his UF buyout. He will then jump to $1m after the buyout ends. I don’t think anybody, including you Seabee, could argue that isn’t dramatically below market for the sole purpose of taking advantage of UF and our financial resources.
So maybe I wasn’t clear in my original statement when I said less than market value. Truth be told I was talking about market value for a coach like McElwain that had been fired (believe it or not, there is a separate market value for coaches like that compared to successful coaches like Kyle Whittingham for example and I assumed that was implied) but for sake of discussion, let’s address a coach like Shannon being paid DRAMATICALLY less than fair market value (I hope that’s better)...why won’t UF pursue recourse? Thoughts?