re: the Bench Tweet just now

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I assumed through June to coincide with the end of the fiscal year. But it still shouldn’t be close to 5 even if you assume it’s through July and they haven’t been paid this month.

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My understanding is the current buyout reduces to $7.5MM on 02/28/20 (so $2.5MM over the next year) and then reduces at a rate of $250k/month for the remainder ($3MM/year). So, in theory, if he's fired after December of 2020, then his buyout would be ~$4.5MM, about the same as it was as of the end of this past football season. I'm honestly shocked the admin did what no one expected they would. I said back when they made the initial announcement they were negotiating an extension and raise that if the buyout remained about the same in two years that everyone should be ok with that. And I'm also shocked they were able to get away with only a $500k raise. Almost seems to me as if Orgeron didn't even try to put the screws to them given how it seems the athletic department generally always caved to demands in the past regardless of leverage.

Your son needs to reveal his sources

If he refuses, ground him

Take away his phone if he is wrong

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But a Yahoo Report, with a selective portion of a wire tap transcript is enough to fire a coach?

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the cause to fire Wade would come from multiple contract breaches, and nothing directly associated with the Yahoo report.


For the OLOL thing, Alleva would be more on the hook than FKing. That was an athletic department dealing.

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I’m 50% certain that Dr X, Mack & The Shoe post here and are laughing their asses off.

Out yourselves Dr X, Mack & The Shoe.

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I'm The Shoe

You can read Wade's contract yourself

Focus on Section 3 for applicable breaches

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Name one.

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He's probably referring to the article released last week by Glen Guilbeau ( ) that said there is a provision in Wade's contract that requires him to meet with the athletic director or whomever within 10 days upon request. That's the only "breach," I can find, but it's worth mentioning the actual contract has not been released, only people discussing what it allegedly says. It's also somewhat vague and inconclusive if what Wade did would constitute a breach

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This basically means the university is following the procedures in Wade’s contract that are required for it to have the option of firing him for cause. The agreement says the school can fire Wade for cause for “unreasonably refusing or repeatedly failing to perform any duties … after written notice to coach of LSU's reasonable expectation.”

Wade also can be fired for cause for “knowingly committing material or repeated significant violations of any provision of this agreement,” provided that those initial violations are not resolved within 10 days of Wade being notified of the violations.

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Key words in the above being "material or significant violations of any provision"

Would not meeting with administrators to discuss a non-active investigation be considered a material violation? That would be up to courts to decide. I don't think the LSU admin is or would be willing to take their chances on using only that as cause to fire Wade and not be absolutely certain they'd be able to escape his buyout.

The former talks about Wade failing to unreasonably perform his duties after written notice. We don't know he's received written notice, which is pretty important. It's also highly argumentative whether it is unreasonable that he hasn't met with Alleva, et al, given the circumstances, even if he did receive written notice. The last thing LSU wants to do is have a litigation that costs them a couple million dollars and risk losing.

So, while those provisions may very well be in his contract, it would be a stretch for LSU to use those as grounds for firing him at the present time. If he were totally uncooperative with an open NCAA investigation or was unwilling to discuss any conditions to meet with Alleva, then maybe. But one has to assume that his attorneys in New York wouldn't be advising him to act in a manner that could potentially cost him his job.

If you would read it, you wouldnt have to ask me. It's 3 pages that are really spaced out. I think you can handle it. I believe in you.

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Is this a result of today's board meeting or is that not until later?

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Board meeting is tomorrow

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