When NCAA Violations Undercut a Coach’s Wrongful Termination Claim

When is finding NCAA violations at your university or college a good thing?   When you, the university or college, are being sued for wrongful termination by a jilted coach, and that coach has a clause in his contract, which reads that he or she can be fired for violating NCAA rules.   Two cases in point are Alabama State University (ASU) and the University of Hawaii (UH).   After ASU fired football coach Reggie Barlow in 2014, Barlow hired local attorney Donald Jackson and filed