Kevin Ollie Fighting UConn Decision To Fire Him For "Just Cause"

Fired UConn men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie will "fight to retain his job and contest UConn's decision to fire him" for what the school yesterday said is "just cause." Ollie is a member of UConn's branch of the American Association of University Professors, a union that "represents thousands of faculty members around the country." Sources said that few college basketball coaches "possess union protection." However, Ollie's contract "stipulates he's entitled to a hearing within the next 15 days to defend himself against the school's claim that it has the right to fire him with 'just cause'" (ESPN.com, 3/10). ESPN’s Jeff Goodman: "They don’t want to pay him. That’s the big thing. ... They owe him $10 million and they don't want to pay him" (“SportsCenter,” ESPN, 3/10).