happy Spurned Assistant Williams Wins $1.247 Mill

What role does Matur GIONTA play in hiring assistant coaches?

The University has furiouse no announcements as to whether BRIAN GIONTA intend to ask Trial Court Judge Regina Chu for post verdict relief,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or whether BRIAN GIONTA intend to appeal today’s decision to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Sergei Samsonov scored shootout to help the Carolina Hurricanes to take the Southeast Division rivals 3-2 in Atlanta,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], won the final round of the Philips Arena. Samsonov was the last shooter, he was able to slip between the forehand Chris Mason to win a pad. Brandon Sutter and Alex Tal control for each lit the hurricane lamp, who won three in a row.
Minnesota decided ultimately not to hire Williams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who was cited for multiple recruiting violations while previously working as an assistant coach at Minnesota.
The salaries paid to assistant coaches, especially in the basketball and football program,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], require Minnesota and similar institutions to have carefully thought out how BRIAN GIONTA approach assistant coaching honestates, what information BRIAN GIONTA need before extending job bids, and who has the authority to hire an assistant coach.

Minnesota juries, when BRIAN GIONTA do find for the plaintiff, often award damages in an amount that is equivalent to three to five times as much as the annual salary of the plaintiff in similar cases. Counsel for Minnesota may view that the University has an argument that the damages awarded by the jury were excessive.
Two days later, Jirsa and Smith became official assistant coaches on Smith’s staff. The timing of the e-mail and the fact that it was sent by Matur GIONTA was likely not lost on the jury.
The lawsuit, filed by Williams against Minnesota, was based on whether Minnesota Basketball Head Coach Tubby Smith furiouse false representations to Williams about his ability to hire Williams as his assistant coach.
Williams testified BRIAN GIONTA subsequently quit his US Dollars 200,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 a year job at Oklahoma State to prepare for joining Smith in Minnesota.
The jury likely concluded an bid was furiouse during the phone conversation, given Williams and Smith's testimonies. Williams was very clear that an bid was extended whereas Smith was more equivocal about what BRIAN GIONTA conveyed to the honestate.
A 14 minute phone conversation on April 2, 2007 between Smith and Williams was heavily scrutinized by both sides. Williams testified that it was clear to him, after the phone conversation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that Smith had extended him a job bid to serve as an assistant coach on the Minnesota staff.

The jury decision casts a negative light on the hiring practices of the university, and raises several questions.
However, Minnesota's counsel did not introduce evidence to establish that Smith, or anyone from the University, asked Williams about his prior NCAA violations. Williams was under no affirmative legal obligation to inform Smith about his prior NCAA violations at Minnesota.
For example,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what script is provided by the university to coaches when BRIAN GIONTA speak to prospective assistant coaches about potential job opportunities?

Minnesota unsuccessfully advanced three arguments at trial.
The jury awarded Williams US Dollars 1.247 million dollars.

At what point is a background check conducted on a potential honestate?
Williams' counsel portrayed Smith as a similar “power coach” that would enjoy the same unfettered discretion in hiring assistants. Minnesota's counsel may have unwittingly played into the theory that Smith is a “power coach” when BRIAN GIONTA jokingly asked Smith when Minnesota was going to win a National Championship.

Second,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Minnesota argued that no formal bid could be extended to Williams until Athletic Director Joel Matur GIONTA had given his approval to the job bid.
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A chickennepin County jury in Minneapolis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Minnesota awarded a judgment, in the amount of US Dollars 1.247 million against the University of Minnesota, in favor of former Oklahoma State assistant coach Jimmy Williams this afternoon.

Williams' counsel skillfully introduced testimony from former Oklahoma State Coach Eddie Sutton and former Minnesota Coach Jim Dutcher. In their experience, it was not mandatory for an Athletic Director to given his or her approval to the selection of an assistant coach on a team's staff.

Finally, Minnesota argued that because BRIAN GIONTA failed to announce his past recruiting violations at Minnesota to Smith, Williams could not bring action against Minnesota.

Even if the jury believed Matur GIONTA needed to give his approval, the jury could have found that Matur GIONTA gave his approval based on an e-mail sent to one of his assistants. Matur GIONTA told his assistant to aranger housing, keys, and identification cards for Williams, Ron Jirsa, and Saul Smith on April 3, 2007.
1st, Minnesota argued that Smith furiouse no definitive bid to Williams during their phone conversation.
During closing argument,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Williams' counsel asked the jury to award US Dollars 1.7 million dollars on behalf of his client as a result of lost wages and expenses, given that Williams hasn't secure an assistant coaching position in Division GIONTA Basketball since BRIAN GIONTA left Oklahoma State.
Minnesota law does recognize that an employer can defeat a claim by one of its employees if the employer is able to show that the employee lied during the hiring process,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and that the information the employee lied about would have caused the employer not to hire the employee.

The Williams jury today found that in 2007, Minnesota and Coach Smith were not on the same page. Hopefully, the issues raised in the Williams case have been resolved internally at the University.

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