Potential Head Coaches

[EWURanger]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is the $1.5 million payout settlement to the former women's basketball coach who sued for wrongful termination. I'm not sure who's on the hook to pay that one...maybe the state, or maybe there's insurance or whatever. Lynn Hickey left us with that gift. She should not have been fired. Anyway, glad we have a new AD.

 

[Obzerver]

This was also a joint lawsuit Wendy Schuller and women's successful soccer coach Chad Bonar. Hickey took an assistant coach from both of them and they complained and Hickey wanted them gone. Not sure of details but Bodnar has since passed away. Perhaps his estate still has lawsuit going on.

Lawsuit Against Outgoing Athletic Director Hickey Details Alleged Sexism, Title IX Violations - The Easterner

Following her 17th season as head coach of women’s basketball at Eastern Washington University, Wendy Schuller felt that she was more than qualified for the vacant Senior Women’s Administrator position at EWU. Instead, her direct superior, athletic director Lynn Hickey, told her “not to...

theeasterner.org

 

[Eagledawg]

FYI- This is from a SR article dated 11-30-2024

Best received the vote of confidence from EWU athletics director Tim Collins last week. Best is also under contract through the 2027 season.
According to a copy of the contract obtained by The Spokesman-Review through a public record’s request, Best signed his most recent contract in June 2021, canceling and superseding a previous contract he signed in February 2019 that ran for five years, through February 2024. The terms of this new deal continued until February 2026, making it a five-season contract that ran through the 2025 football season.

But the contract also contains an automatic rollover extension clause that is activated each February. That occurred in February 2022 and again in February 2023, Collins said. Collins replaced retiring athletics director Lynn Hickey in summer 2023.

Collins said he gave written notice, per the parameters of the contract, to end the rollover clause following Eastern’s 2023 season, giving the current contract a termination date of Feb. 28, 2028.

 

[E-Wu Tang Clan]

FYI- This is from a SR article dated 11-30-2024

Best received the vote of confidence from EWU athletics director Tim Collins last week. Best is also under contract through the 2027 season.
According to a copy of the contract obtained by The Spokesman-Review through a public record’s request, Best signed his most recent contract in June 2021, canceling and superseding a previous contract he signed in February 2019 that ran for five years, through February 2024. The terms of this new deal continued until February 2026, making it a five-season contract that ran through the 2025 football season.

But the contract also contains an automatic rollover extension clause that is activated each February. That occurred in February 2022 and again in February 2023, Collins said. Collins replaced retiring athletics director Lynn Hickey in summer 2023.

Collins said he gave written notice, per the parameters of the contract, to end the rollover clause following Eastern’s 2023 season, giving the current contract a termination date of Feb. 28, 2028.

So the contract extends itself automatically by 5 years every February? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Collins probably came in and was like "Wtf is this?!" Seems between firing Schuller and Bodnar and this Hickey was a real shitty AD. I'm no expert but I wouldn't give Nick Saban that contract.