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Jim O'Brien (officially erased and paid cheat)

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Dispatch

O'Brien's 3-year fight with OSU ends in victory
Ohio justices let $2.46 million award stand
Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:25 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz and James Nash


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Jim O'Brien: "I'm thrilled with the outcome."



The long, often-bitter feud between Ohio State and former men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien ended yesterday. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a $2.46 million award to O'Brien, who sued the school after he was fired in 2004 for giving $6,000 to the family of a former Serbian recruit six years earlier.
In a 5-2 ruling, justices declined to accept an appeal of lower court rulings filed by the university.
O'Brien said the ruling provided vindication.
"I'm thrilled with the outcome," he said in a phone interview with The Dispatch. "I have felt all along that I have been treated unfairly, quite frankly. We've had two decisions by the NCAA, and we won both of those on both appeals we had to go through. There's been three levels at the court system, and we've been successful at every level.



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Dispatch

Full transcript of Jim O'Brien interview

Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:16 AM
By Bill Rabinowitz


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



Following the ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that upheld Jim O'Brien's $2.45 million award from Ohio State, the Buckeyes' former men's basketball coach spoke to Dispatch sports reporter Bill Rabinowitz about the legal ordeal, his feelings toward Ohio State and his hopes of returning to coaching. Here is the Q&A of that interview:



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LitlBuck;1096653; said:
I wonder if this decision will play on the administration at IU comes this Friday... supposedly.
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Probably not, it all comes down to the specific wording of the coaches contract. I would not expect them to have the same exact contract provisions unless (of course) they happened to have the same agent/lawyer. Each case would be different and stand on it's own merits, etc.
 
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ScriptOhio;1097414; said:
Probably not, it all comes down to the specific wording of the coaches contract. I would not expect them to have the same exact contract provisions unless (of course) they happened to have the same agent/lawyer. Each case would be different and stand on it's own merits, etc.
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Sampson has already been sited by NCAA for 5 major rules violations. I'm sure that would be cause for dismissal (depending on contract)

O'brien won the case because it was determined that the violations were only minor, and his contract said he could be fired if committed major violations.
 
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ShakerBuck;1097430; said:
Sampson has already been sited by NCAA for 5 major rules violations. I'm sure that would be cause for dismissal (depending on contract)

O'brien won the case because it was determined that the violations were only minor, and his contract said he could be fired if committed major violations.
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I don't believe that statement about O'Brien's case is accurate. He won his original lawsuit before the NCAA rescinded some of his violations (on the technicality that their letter to tOSU was received barely more that 1 year fter notification). My understanding is that he won the lawsuit since he was terminated before the violations were reported by the NCAA, not due to there being no 'major' violations.

Indiana has different language regarding termination in Sampson's contract. It has been discussed in the Sampson thread.
 
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OSU cuts check for former men's basketball coach


By the Associated Press

Friday, May 02, 2008

COLUMBUS ? Ohio State paid former men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien $2.74 million to finally close the books for improperly firing him for violating NCAA rules.
O'Brien's Columbus attorney, Joseph Murray, on Thursday confirmed the payment of $2,742,521.27.
 
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Don't blame O'Brien for cashing OSU check

By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Sunday, May 04, 2008
Jim O'Brien is richer today, and it's not his fault.
There are some things, of course, for which he can be blamed. The former Ohio State men's basketball coach provided money to a Serbian recruit, which is clearly against the rules, no matter how morally right it might be. He ran a program that the NCAA found to be just one step short of completely out of control.
But he didn't fire himself. When then-Athletic Director Andy Geiger performed that task in 2004, he broke the provision of O'Brien's contract that said he couldn't be fired in such an instance unless an NCAA investigation found him guilty.
The NCAA investigation later did find him at fault, but not before he was fired. So, this week, Ohio State cut O'Brien a check for $2.74 million after appeals to the Ohio Supreme Court.
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