@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Settlement agreement breaks down $2.55 million deal between KU and fired football coach Beaty; KU legal fees total $477K:
@FarmerJayhawk said in Settlement agreement breaks down $2.55 million deal between KU and fired football coach Beaty; KU legal fees total $477K:
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Settlement agreement breaks down $2.55 million deal between KU and fired football coach Beaty; KU legal fees total $477K:
@Kcmatt7 said in Settlement agreement breaks down $2.55 million deal between KU and fired football coach Beaty; KU legal fees total $477K:
This was an absolute disaster and a huge waste of money.
Les better win some football games soon or Jeff isn’t going to last long.
Jeff Long needs to go regardless of what Les Miles does on the field. There’s a reason he’s been run out of multiple jobs before. He’s not a great judge of character based on how his Arkansas hires and he tends to piss off alums which wasting money on this Beaty lawsuit I’m sure isn’t sitting well with quite a few alums right now.
Yes now is obviously the time to pay him a $3 million buyout in the middle of employee furloughs.
From my circle of KU friends, the attitude was either apathy or suck Beaty dry. The few “pay the man!!” People generally were much stronger basketball fans and probably couldn’t name half a dozen football players.
And FWIW, donors were behind Long on this. Rich people tend to frown upon getting cheated by their employees ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This was just a bad hire from the start. In the end, KU ended up saving about $100k than if they had just paid Beaty off to start with and wouldn’t have taken the PR hit the department did from this mess. And the only reason they settled at this point was to avoid having Gassnola testify and potentially have something come out to hurt the basketball program’s case. This is just a bad all around look for the athletic department and Long handled it about as poorly as possible. Our top donors don’t exactly have a great history in regards to moving on from AD’s or coaches in a timely manner considering Ritch Price and Brandon Schneider are still coaches despite their atrocious track records.
And Beaty is about a mil lighter so all told, ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, Zenger extending Schneider and not announcing it was ridiculous. Price would’ve been gone had there not been covid, so I’m willing to let Long hire a baseball coach. KU is definitely one of the hardest jobs in the league so I don’t expect CWS births every year but at least we should be respectable.
