University of Hawaii Sues Former Basketball Coach Seeking to Avoid Payment of Liquidated Damages

By Daniel B. Fitzgerald   Litigation involving a university and one of its former coaches is not a novel concept in the realm of Division I collegiate athletics. As demonstrated in the often discussed case involving West Virginia University and its former football coach, Rich Rodriguez, and more recently repeated in cases involving Marist University and Kent State University, litigation may arise when a coach’s departs one school for a more lucrative position at another school.   A