Anderson to submit lawsuit vs

Previous St. John’s coach Mike Anderson said he will submit an arbitration lawsuit versus the school after he was ended “for cause.”

Per his contract, Anderson would have been owed $11 million if he had actually not been fired for cause, and he thinks he was wrongfully ended. According to ESPN’s Jeff Borzello and Pete Thamel, the school has actually been in “major” talks with Iona head coach Rick Pitino to change Anderson.According to the termination letter gotten by ESPN, Anderson was fired for”failure to develop and support an environment that highly motivates student-athletes who are in the males’s basketball program to meet all university scholastic requirements,””failure to perform your tasks and duties in a manner that reflected favorably on St. John’s University … in actions [that] brought severe discredit”to the school and”failure to properly supervise and interact with your assistant coaches.”Editor’s Picks 1 Associated Anderson rejects the accusations.”I emphatically disagree with

the university

‘s decision to terminate my contract for cause,” Anderson said in a statement to ESPN.”The for cause accusation is completely without merit and I will be aggressively safeguarding my legal rights through an arbitration procedure. “Jay Morakis, CEO of M Group Strategic Communications, validated that Anderson has actually kept attorney John Singer of Vocalist Deutsch, which is currently dealing with Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule in his $5 million arbitration case against the Carolina Panthers.Anderson went 68-56 general and 30-46 in the Big East in his four years at St. John’s. He did not reach the NCAA competition throughout his tenure.Another previous Big East coach took comparable actions when he

thought he was wrongfully ended. In 2015, an arbitrator bought UConn to pay former head coach Kevin Ollie$11 million after he was fired for cause in 2018 following allegations of NCAA offenses.