If Michigan State University’s leadership thought they’d heard the last of football coach Mel Tucker when they fired him (doubtful), they were wrong.
According to ESPN reports and others, Tucker informed the university on Thursday that he will sue them for wrongful termination.
ESPN’s story by Dan Murphy and Pete Thamel said that, in a letter to the university, Tucker’s attorneys asked the institution hold on to electronic and paper records “in anticipation of litigation.”
Tucker was fired for cause on Wednesday after being accused of sexual harassment.
From the espn.com article: “Michigan State Athletic director Alan Haller said Tucker was being fired for cause because his admitted sexual encounter ‘brought public disrespect, contempt and ridicule upon the university; and constitute a material breach of his agreement, and moral turpitude.’”
Tucker’s firing means the university does not have to pay the rest of his contract, about $79 million.
The coach told an investigator, according to ESPN, that he was estranged from his wife and that he and the accuser had an intimate relationship and that sexual contact was consensual. Tucker called the investigation “a sham” and was suspended in September, then subsequently fired.
