JMU & Brady loses lawsuit with Marist

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JMU and their head basketball coach lose a tortious damages lawsuit to Marist over JMU's negotiating and hiring with Brady. If you read the Zone all the JMU fans are okay with losing the suit and that it isn't a big deal.
I thought alot of Brady til I read some of the articles. My kids go/went to JMU. I know coaches break contract etc... but he had just asked for and received a 4 yr extension only to leave 1-2 months later. Marist suffered thru a 1-26 season last year after all the recruits and many players left after Brady left. Think that record may factor into the damamges to be assessed on Friday? JMU fans think the award will be a dollar (one poster said)...between legal fees, lost gate revenue, lost of prestige by a 1-26 record, Marist could be in for a NY Court style payday. By the way our Commonwealth of Va is on the hook for this. JMU didn't even contest the procedings. They ignored the lawsuit from what I can tell.
JMU has recruited and signed a transfer dismissed for a violent transgression, Brady has been shown to be less than ethical, not sure I support the doings in the MBB program in H'burg...it alsomakes me realize that Coach Smart does things the right way. And is doing it better.
 
I haven't read any of the articles but just because a coach renegotiates 1-2 months before leaves doesn't make him back. We renegotiated with Grant for an extended stay and he left the next season....the same thing with Capel I believe. And it was Marist that let all the players leave, not Bradley. Kids commit/get a scholarship from the school, not from the coach (yes I know kids usually go to a school because of the coach). A lot of schools have coaches that leave early in their contract.

There has to be other reasons for winning the suit.
 
Brad, Coach has a contract with School X. School Y comes in, knowing Coach has a contract with School X, but woes him and makes him a great offer, which Coach accepts. Unless there's a provision in Coaches contract with School X allowing what occurred, School Y has tortiously interfered with the contract between Coach and School X.

In a lawsuit, however, School X will have to prove its damage beyond mere speculation, something that is difficult to do. For that reason and other considerations (some legal and some non-legal), schools normally don't consider it worth suing over. Marist decided it was worth it. Given its 1-26 record, proving damages might not be as difficult as it normally is.

I didn't read the article, but if JMU chose not to defend, then a default judgment would have been entered against it and nothing would have really been decided on the merits.
 
Plus we, not being privy to the actual contract language for either Brady nor someone like Grant, do not
know if every coach agrees to language apparently as strong as Marist's contract with Brady.
I doubt seriously Grant, negotiating from the advantageous position he had, would agree to such a clause. That too, is the indigestion I have with Brady. He knew the contract and blew it off...my opinion anyway...just another troll on a hot summer day
 
Guys the details of the suit are more along the lines of what happend with everhart and NU(taking a player he had recruited to NU to DU)..

According to the contract, Brady was required to cease all contact with players being recruited by Marist if Brady were to leave during the terms of his contract. Brady, in the first year of a newly renegotiated 4-year deal, left to coach JMU. Interestingly, despite a provision precluding Brady from even discussing a job with another program during the term of his contract, Marist allowed Brady to leave for JMU, but Marist insisted that JMU and Brady honor the no-contact-with-recruits portion of the contract. In fact, Marist’s Athletic Director wrote a letter to JMU identifying 19 basketball players who had been recruited by Brady while at Marist (“The List”), and were thus off limits to Brady and JMU.

In its complaint, Marist alleged that Brady, with JMU’s full knowledge and encouragement, contacted Marist recruits in order to entice them to join JMU’s basketball team. The complaint also alleged that JMU offered scholarships to four of the Marist basketball recruits who were on The List. One of those recruits had already committed to play for Marist./quote]
Via Sports law blog...
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This sounds like one of those class action suits when you end up with a congrats and no $$
 
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