Although Stallings offered a … According to 93.7 The Fan’s Colin Dunlap, Pitt offered Stallings a reduced buyout of $4.8 million, significantly less than his estimated $9.4 million buyout in his contract. • If you believe you have been sent to this page by accident, you can delete your TribLIVE.com cookies and proceed to the site. ", (Don’t) Bet the Farm: Pitt-Louisville Game Picks, Pitt women’s soccer team storms the Citadel, picks up fifth straight win. “Athletic Director Heather Lyke, under pressure from prominent boosters, decided in early January she would fire Stallings at the end of the season, sources told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor), By Jordan Mondell and John Hamilton | TPN Staff March 9, 2018. To provide The Pitt News with data for advertisers and internal analytics. Stallings was not a hot candidate at age 55, after a decade of middling results at Vanderbilt, and cashed out and got the big payday before he went on the hot seat in Nashville. Pitt is reportedly trying to fire Kevin Stallings for cause, No. However, Stallings declined the offer. Lyke and other members of Pitt’s athletic staff are expected to meet with head coach Kevin Stallings on Thursday to discuss Stallings’ future with the team and what happens next if she’s made the decision to move on from Stallings after two years. Dunlap cited sources that said Stallings claims his behavior at Louisville doesn’t constitute cause for his dismissal, as it did not violate any code of conduct included in his contract. Sources said the two sides were working on buyout details. Powered by Minute Media © 2020 All Rights Reserved, the coaching search and Barnes’ use of a search firm, moved on to Oregon State in December of 2016. Stallings’ lawyers, Scott Tompsett and Jim Lieber of Tompsett Collegiate Sports Law, said Friday that Pitt offered the former coach a buyout “far less” than the widely reported $7.5 million offer. Stallings was removed from his position Thursday, and the university is continuing the effort to fire him with cause, meaning it would not have to pay him a buyout upward of $9 million, multiple sources said.”. The report, citing … , but details regarding his multi-million dollar buyout are still unclear. That could really lead to some issues. The company’s founder and president, Todd Turner, was the athletic director at the University of Washington when Mr. Barnes was the school’s senior associate athletic director from 2005-08. Neither Pitt nor Stallings’ attorneys would provide further comment on the nature of the settlement. who was heckling his players during the Jan. 2 game. Other up-and-coming coaches like Will Wade and Kevin Keatts were out there to find as well. Didn’t steal a Bud diesel from his dad’s stash or celebrate his coming of age in style. ... Turner is looking to reassign Drew to another position in the school to avoid paying his buyout, according to sources.