Former St. John's basketball coach Mike Anderson is seeking nearly $46M from the school, claiming he was fired with cause only so the school could avoid paying his buyout and use the money to hire Rick Pitino, per arbitration documents obtained by ESPN.
Per documents obtained by ESPN, Anderson claims St. John's officials had tried to offer him a buyout for less than the $11.4 million remaining on his deal before the school accused him of"fictitious" problems within his program and fired him for cause.
On the day he was fired, Anderson claims the school had already entered advanced talks with Pitino, who wasAnderson said that he never changed and that he represented the school in a"first class manner" after he signed an extension in 2021 and until the day he was dismissed in March. In the documents, Anderson said St.
"St. John's manufactured out of whole cloth its preposterous 'for cause' termination of Mr. Anderson's employment with the sole purpose of attempting to extricate the University from its $11.4 million ironclad contractual obligation to Mr. Anderson, specifically so that it could otherwise divert those funds to Pitino," the filing by Anderson's representative says.In the documents, Anderson, who had previously announced his intent to sue St.
The arbitration documents filed by Anderson also accuse the school of hypocrisy by firing him for cause but hiring Pitino, who had been"enmeshed in one highly publicized, sensational scandal after another over the years."
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