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Mark Gottfried Just Won’t Go Away

Show him the money. And the door.

By JD King
ACC Basketball Tournament - First Round
 NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 07: Dennis Smith Jr. #4 and head coach Mark Gottfried of the North Carolina State Wolfpack walk off the court following their 75-61 loss to the Clemson Tigers in the first round of the ACC Basketball Tournament at Barclays Center on March 7, 2017 in New York City.
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Usually when you fire a coach, after a decent period of negotiations, he’s happy to go away.

Hasn’t happened with Mark Gottfried.

Fired by NC State in 2017, Gottfried left a serious NCAA investigation as a parting gift. Now he’s filed suit against the university because he says he hasn't received his buyout payments since 2018.

We have no idea what actually happened here but in the meantime, the Adidas/FBI scandal erupted with allegations that NC State paid Dennis Smith a lot of money to come to Raleigh.

Presumably now, NC State will cite that as a reason to no longer pay Gottfried and has the option of putting him on the stand to testify under oath.

In other words, we’re not sure that Gottfried has very much leverage.

We will say this for the former Wolfpack coach: he’s had the best ACC rumors since Phil Ford was at UNC.

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