March 12, 2026
By Daniel Libit, Sportico: Following Arizona State’s men’s basketball team’s historic, season-ending shellacking in the first round of the Big 12 tournament, the school made official on Wednesday what had felt inevitable since the start of the season: It will not renew head coach Bobby Hurley’s contract. Instead, the agreement will simply expire at the end of June.
Unremarkable as the news itself may have been, it underscored something far more unusual in the modern era of big-time college athletics. A non-retiring, revenue-sport coach will be leaving his Power Four job precisely at the end of his contract term—meaning neither side owes the other a buyout.
Such conclusions, devoid of any liquidated damages, has become almost a novelty in the contemporary college sports economy, where it is generally assumed that an employment agreement’s premature-termination clause will be triggered by one of the parties somewhere along the way.
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