As if Auburn wasn't already having a bad month

[dixiehack]

Auburn fires baseball coach Sunny Golloway "for cause" after just two seasons. No buyout.

Golloway's attorney has gone past irate and straight to nuclear.

"This is a program that hired a disgraced Bruce Pearl, yet now seeks to make a good man and a good coach, who is nothing but a winner, the fall guy."

Attorney: Auburn firing Sunny Golloway is 'outrageous'

 

[albert77]

Want to see some entertaining reading, check out the comments section in the al.com story on this. Best I can tell, Galloway's disposition was anything but "Sunny" and he pissed off the wrong people at Auburn.

 

[DanOregon]

what does the term "pre-textual" mean?

 

[Ace]

Want to see some entertaining reading, check out the comments section in the al.com story on this. Best I can tell, Galloway's disposition was anything but "Sunny" and he pissed off the wrong people at Auburn.

To be fired for cause, he must have knowingly violated NCAA rules, committed a crime, embarrassed the university through immoral conduct or annoyed one prominent booster.

 

[mpcincal]

Want to see some entertaining reading, check out the comments section in the al.com story on this. Best I can tell, Galloway's disposition was anything but "Sunny" and he pissed off the wrong people at Auburn.

Well, reading the first batch of comments, they seem to like ripping on Alabama and Saban more than commenting on the actual story above.

And I wonder if the Auburn administrators were suspicious of him because he spelled his first name with a "u" instead of an "o."

 

[Steak Snabler]

Former Sooner Joe Simpson when Golloway left Oklahoma for Auburn:

“I'm so thrilled that he's gone that they could hire a basset hound and it would be an improvement,” said Simpson, an Atlanta Braves broadcaster the past two decades.


“I haven't had anything to do with the program since near the end of the Larry Cochell era. I didn't want to have anything to do with it as long as Sunny Golloway was the head coach because I think he's a sorry individual. I think he's a bad guy. I want to thank Auburn University for taking him off our hands and getting him out of Norman.”

Oklahoma baseball: Joe Simpson 'thrilled' that Sunny Golloway left OU

 

[User 4332]

what does the term "pre-textual" mean?

It means taking an action for one reason, but claiming another reason - usually mundane and technical. That second reason is the "pretext" for your action, which is really the first reason.

It typically comes up in the context of traffic stops. Or at least that's when lawyers seem to use it the most. Lets say Officer Bob sees an African-American male driving a nice car on the bad side of town and thinks to himself, hmm, I really want to pull him over. Well, Bob would wait until he does something minor, like only wait 2 seconds at a stop sign instead of 3, and then pull him over. That would be an example of a pretextual stop.

 

[dixiehack]

Looks like he held an illegal practice. Not good, but not usually a firing offense.

Sunny Golloway's Lawyer Responds to Firing By Auburn University

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Maybe he had an affair with Lane Kiffin. NTTAWWT.

 

[dixiehack]

Maybe he had an affair with Lane Kiffin. NTTAWWT.

That particular grease fire may flare up again in December.

 

[hondo]

Not sorry about any of this happening at Auburn. Been delish to watch that fraud football team and coach melt down. Hope the SEC media that picked Auburn to win the conference, Jeremy Johnson to win the Heisman and Auburn to make the CFP just because Gus Malzahn said they were good, won't drink the kool-aid at next year's media days.

 

[dixiehack]

Somebody's lawsuit just got a big boost.

NCAA Clears Golloway Of Infractions | D1Baseball.com