Coach Loses Breach of Contract Claim for Lack of ‘Detrimental Reliance’

A Hawaii state appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s finding that a school district and several individual defendants did not breach an oral contract with a prospective coach when it rescinded its job offer to the coach.   Central to the court’s finding was its conclusion that the coach did not “rely” on the “conditional offer” in making his decision not to pursue other jobs.   The dispute surfaced when Kelli Morgado, a head football coach on Kauai, was fired in the sp