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22 Legal Issues Collegiate Athletics 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/lica22 and id is 1 raw text is: November 2020 Volume 22, Issue 1 Legal Issues in A Report of Court Decisions, Legislation and Regulations Affecting Collegiate Athletics Gottfried V. N.C. State: Lawsuit by Ex- Coach With Explosive Implications (IiUIh1N:' F iI[tp By Gary J. Chester The one-count complaint filed by a former men's basketball coach against North Carolina State University in the U.S. District Court in North Carolina in August is remarkably short on details. The former coach, Mark Gottfried, al- leges that the university breached its contract with him when it stopped making monthly buyout payments to him in 2018. The complaint is sparse on factual allegations, even failing to set forth how much money N.C. State still owes Gottfried.1 But this seemingly innocuous civil litigation has the potential to be extremely 1 https://wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com/asset/colleges/ ncsu/2020/09/01/1 9265992/dkt_1_Complaint- DMID 1-5o1rwma24.pdf contentious and hugely embarrassing to both parties and to college basketball. Gottfried, after all, was the first coach directly linked to a federal investigation into improper payments made to high school recruits. The marriage between the parties was consummated in 2011 after N.C. State dispensed with head coach Sidney Lowe, a key player on the Wolfpack's 1984 national title team who never led his alma mater to the NCAA tournament in five seasons. N.C. State fell in love with Gottfried, who was a key assistant to Jim Harrick on UCLA's 1995 championship team and had enjoyed successful head coaching runs at Murray State and Alabama. The See GOTTFRIED on Page 14 William & Mary Restores Programs in the Midst of a Title IX Controversy By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer and Professor, Sports Media, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu To quote Yogi Berra or John Fogarty, it was like deja vu all over again at the Col- lege of William & Mary (W & M) on September 3, 2020 when administrators announced a decision to eliminate seven varsity sports teams, including men's and women's gymnastics, men's and women's swimming, men's track and field, and women's volleyball. Citing a projected budget shortfall due to the pandemic, W & M president Katharine Rowe and other officials (2020) wrote in an open letter that Although the Department of Intercol- legiate Athletics just concluded one of its strongest fundraising years in history, the harsh financial realities of COVID-19 on the entire university as well as on athletics, have led us to conclude that sustaining our current offering of 23 varsity programs in no longer possible. W & M VIOLATES TITLE IX A SECOND TIME BY CUTTING WOMEN'S TEAMS Although assurances were offered when the cuts were announced that consideration See WILLIAM on Page 16 Route To:_/_

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