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The article discusses how veteran assistant college basketball coach Jimmy Williams won his case against coach Tubby Smith and the University of Minnesota. An excerpt from the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling is presented. The author advises not to give up a current job until there is a formal assurance of a new employment.

The article discusses a court case wherein a jury in a county district court awarded 1 million U.S. dollars in damages to a former university basketball coach. In March 2007, Tubby Smith was hired as the head basketball coach of the University of Minnesota (UM), as he assembled his staff, he made a verbal offer to coaching partner Jimmy Williams. Willams, after verbally accepting Smith's offer, resigned from his position at Oklahoma State University and put up his house up for sale. However UM's athletic director did not approve Williams hiring.