Remember earlier this season when Pittsburgh head coach Kevin Stallings screamed at Louisville fans?
“At least we don’t pay our players $100,000,” Stallings said to fans.
That incident may end up as a costly mistake for Stallings now that he has been fired by Pitt.
According to reports, the school is using that as cause for termination and will seek to pay him only $4.8 million of his $9.4 million payout:
In that January 2 loss at Louisville, Stallings turned to a heckling fan behind the Pitt bench and said “at least we didn’t pay our guys $100,000.” He also exclaimed loudly: “we didn’t pay our guys 100 grand, though.” The comments came after Louisville’s highly-publicized pay-for-play scandal.
After the game Stallings apologized but also said his actions were a result of being a leader and felt it was his obligation to stick up for his team.
In a meeting Thursday in which Stallings was terminated, 93.7 The Fan has learned the Pitt administration offered two paths for Stallings’ impending departure. He could:
Accept a reduced buyout of $4.8M, which works out to about half the sum of the buyout language in his contract.
ORNot accept the $4.8M reduced buyout offer and be met with a “for cause” termination for his actions at Louisville, thus forfeiting the totality of his buyout.
