RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State University is investigating potential legal claims against Louisiana State University tied to men’s basketball coach Will Wade leaving the Raleigh school for a second stint coaching the Tigers. That includes whether LSU violated a North Carolina state law.
N.C. State vice chancellor and general counsel Allison B. Newhart wrote to LSU counterpart Carlton Jones last week about the matter, a development first reported by WRAL-TV in Raleigh. The letter was later obtained by The Associated Press in a records request.
According to N.C. State, it has received three email messages from LSU asking the school to “sign a release of claims” against LSU in the Wade matter.
Newhart’s letter from last Thursday states the school “has not agreed — and does not agree now — to release LSU from any liability” tied to Wade’s departure after one season with the Wolfpack in March.
“Instead, N.C. State is investigating whether LSU improperly induced Coach Wade to breach his Employment Agreement, induced Coach Wade to terminate his Employment Agreement, and interfered with the timing of termination of the Employment Agreement to result in lower liquidated damages — all to N.C. State’s detriment,” Newhart wrote.