Texas Court Sides with Coach in Contract Dispute

Having more than one athletic department administrator communicate with a coach about the renewal or non-renewal of the coach's contract is a recipe for disaster.   Just witness the litigation bubbling in the Texas court system, where Baylor University's former volleyball coach picked up a legal victory last month after a panel of judges there sided with the coach in an appeal from a summary judgment ruling.   The coach, Tom Sonnichsen, sued the university after it declined to renew hi