F@ck that guy. I expected this day would come back when it all went down. But I also had already forgot all about him.Rolovich, WSU face suit alleging retaliation over COVID-19 risk, racial equity concerns
A former WSU football player who left the team after a controversial phone call last year has filed a new lawsuit against Coach Nick Rolovich and the university, alleging they exposed athletes to unnecessary COVID-19 risks, stifled free speech rights and punished the player for speaking out.whitmancountywatch.com
I would think secretly recording a phone conversation with your coach and leaking it to the press torpedoed his own career. Plus he landed at Northern Colorado on scholarship so it's not like Zaire Webb who was left out in the cold.
It is a fallacy to assume a civil case may or must have at least some underlying merit. Two words -- "Sidney Powell" or how about "Rudy Giuliani." Every case, no matter how outlandish has what's called, "nuisance value," and depending on the circumstances, that value can be quite high. Here, what is the value to WSU of stopping the school and football programs name continuing to be run though the mud.
But here, would a settlement even stop the bad publicity, particularly at this point when lawsuit is in news already?
I respectfully disagree with you. I will venture to guess that money is his goal.
So he did… I honestly would have wished him the best of luck on the road to redemption but he clearly didn’t learn anything after crapping all over himself.
"financial responsibility" is apparently code now for cash-grab. What a joke. Not only that, but it's listed last as if it's an afterthought, when in reality it was the driving factor for the institutional push-back.Rolovich, WSU face suit alleging retaliation over COVID-19 risk, racial equity concerns
A former WSU football player who left the team after a controversial phone call last year has filed a new lawsuit against Coach Nick Rolovich and the university, alleging they exposed athletes to unnecessary COVID-19 risks, stifled free speech rights and punished the player for speaking out.whitmancountywatch.com
I don’t think it’s about that. It’s just more bad publicity which none of us want for the program.
I always look at two sides. I would say this, the US needs to have frivolous lawsuit reform. No merits to the case in a civil suit, the attorney and the plaintiff pay the freight. In 1993 a company I worked for was sued for 175k. The issue was the inspector missed a bathroom fan that did not work. The agent suggested the client use a particular property inspector, and the agent also directed the financing to a fellow loan officer of mine. The LO had no way of knowing the bathroom fan did not work, but yet the company was brought into the law suit. It cost the company 15 k in attorney fees to have it dismissed. Even though our company had no fault, the owner told the plaintiff they would put a new fan in at the companies expense. The borrower/plaintiff wanted their mortgage of 175k paid off. So if this player case has no legitimacy the plaintiff should pay all attorney fees.
You think we have frivolous lawsuits now, watch Texas after their new anti-abortion law goes into affect today. Anyone can accuse anyone of abetting abortion. The accused will then have to decide to pay the $10k or retain a lawyer and hope they don’t lose in court, and have lawyer fees on top of $10k.
How does this work with phone conversations in one party consent states (like Texas)?
Wait...I thought Texas was all about individuals making their own personal health choices...well I digress....
Perhaps. I’m up in the air on him until I see what his team does. If he wins 10 games this year this and the antivax thing will be forgotten. If he goes 6-6 this type of publicity won’t help him on the recruiting trail or the program in general IMO. FWIW I think what Kassidy is did is worse than the disgraceful exit of Marquis Wilson, and I’m not sure how Rolo does anything differently to avoid it. The kid had an agenda and playing football was not his priority.
The WA law applies no matter where the other party is located. And it sounds like Woods was back in Pullman when he recorded the call.
his priority now is the same as it was then: $$$$$
There are way too many examples of this sort of thing. Unfortunately, a respectable proportion of every state legislature are the same people who directly, personally benefit from this sort of thing when they leave office. Rather discouraging.
Yup. Regardless of what WE think about this and Rolo’s anti vax stuff, he’s given his competitors an absolute truck load of negative recruiting material to use against him.
I mostly agree with you (written for media, does not look like much of a case, no actual damages to Woods, etc.), though note this is a federal district court, not a Texas state court.
Woods raises federal questions of law, so the US District Court has jurisdiction and Woods' permanent residence is in the district.
Missed that detail. I still think it's a big stretch to show he was damaged though. Seems to me that his own conduct separated him from the team, and I'm sure there's something in the contract he references about behavior and acting as a representative of the program/university.
There is a reason most of the kids in the P12 distanced themselves from "playersunited or whatever it was called. It was a blatant cash-grab, "pay us or else we won't play", which at the time was against NCAA rules. IMHO, this is all Rolo/WSU needs to point out to show Wood$ created his own fate, not Rolo or the school.
from the article : "...in a new era of player empowerment and social responsibility."Opinion: College football is evolving past coaches like Nick Rolovich, even if a few are still around
The question isn’t whether Washington State has to fire him; it’s how long and at what cost they will allow Rolovich’s self-immolation to continue.amp.usatoday.com
Another one. I agree that Woods was and is being a jackass, but this is bad press. Pressure is mounting on Rolo and he better win big.
