Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Dooms Football Coach’s Breach of Contract Claim

A North Carolina state appeals court affirmed the ruling of a trial court, dismissing the claim of the former head football coach at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), who claimed the school breached his contract when it fired him.   In so ruling, the court found that the claim of plaintiff Henry Frazier, III, was subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which requires the exhaustion of administrative remedies.   Frazier was employed at NCCU as head football coach, pur