[RollTideFan] Cottrell Jury In
Jury reaches verdict in about 2 hours. Judgment in favor of Ronnie Contrell for $10,000,000 in damages, plus $20,000,000 punitive damages. ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Cottrell
I bet Ronnie wishes he'd never received that phone call from Mike DuBose and kept his ass in Tallahassee with diddy. Rick ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Cottrell
yeah. No shit. I wish he'd never received it, too. Not that I don't like Cottrell, but maybe recent history would have been different. --- Original Message --- On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:32:47 -0500, Rick McMahan wrote: I bet Ronnie wishes he'd never received that phone call from Mike DuBose and kept his ass in Tallahassee with diddy. Rick __ NOD32 1.1174 (20050720) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Cottrell: Culpepper attorneys paid for by NCAA
TUSCALOOSA | Attorneys for former University of Alabama assistant football coaches Ronnie Cottrell and Ivy Williams have asked for an order to force defendant Tom Culpepper to produce a document they believe will show that his legal fees are being paid by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In the motion seeking the order, lawyers for Cottrell and Williams claim that such an agreement between the NCAA and Culpepper would clearly result in bias[ed] testimony. According to court documents, the plaintiffs believe such an agreement was reached on or around Nov. 15, 2004. Cottrell and Williams are suing the NCAA and others, including Culpepper, for defamation after they were fired in the wake of a recruiting scandal. The motion claims: The defendants (Culpepper, the NCAA et al) base their decision not to produce the confidentiality agreement on erroneous conclusions of law and attempts to apply the Alabama Rules of Evidence to discovery. The plaintiffs are seeking $15 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages after being identified in an NCAA investigation, but later cleared. According to records released in the Logan Young criminal case in Memphis, Culpepper was a key secret witness for the NCAA in building its case against Alabama along with Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer. Culpepper's three-year contract to provide Alabama with video content of potential high school recruits concluded this past season. In early May, both Culpepper and the NCAA filed motions before Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge Steve Wilson for summary judgment because plaintiffs, as public figures cannot establish through clear and convincing evidence that any of the NCAA defendant's statements were made with 'actual malice' needed to sustain those claims. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for June 23. Another hearing regarding the motions to compel will be held the following day, June 24. The case is scheduled for a jury trial beginning July 11. The initial motion to compel against Culpepper was filed on May 23. In its response, attorneys for the NCAA argued that the request seeks information that is immaterial, irrelevant and not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of the admissible evidence. This defendant also objects to this request for production to the extent that it seeks information that is personal, confidential and/or protected from disclosure pursuant to the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. The defense also contended that discovery of the agreement would have a chilling effect on the settlement negotiations - which plaintiffs denied. An additional motion against other defendants, including the NCAA, was filed Tuesday. In it, part of Rule 8 of the Alabama Rules of Evidence was highlighted: This rule also does not require exclusion when the evidence is offered for another purpose, such as proving bias or prejudice of a witness .. Culpepper is represented by Birmingham's John Scott, who could not be reached for comment. His firm, Starnes and Atchison, also represented the university in the initial stages of the lawsuit. In February, Young was convicted on four counts of conspiracy, crossing state lines to commit racketeering and arranging bank withdrawals to cover up a crime for paying a high school football coach to influence Tyrone Means' recruitment to Alabama. The former Crimson Tide booster is due to be sentenced Thursday by Judge Daniel Breen of the District Court for Western Tennessee. The 64-year-old businessman could receive anything from probation to jail time, with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and $750,000 in fines, though federal guidelines call for a lesser sentence. Breen will also rule on motions for a new trial and judgment of acquittal. Following sentencing, Young's attorneys are expected to immediately appeal. Reach Christopher Walsh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or at (205) 722-0196. ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Cottrell: Culpepper attorneys paid for by NCAA
Now that is some good shit right there. - Original Message - From: Jeff Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List RTF@rolltidefan.net Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:53 PM Subject: [RollTideFan] Cottrell: Culpepper attorneys paid for by NCAA TUSCALOOSA | Attorneys for former University of Alabama assistant football coaches Ronnie Cottrell and Ivy Williams have asked for an order to force defendant Tom Culpepper to produce a document they believe will show that his legal fees are being paid by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. In the motion seeking the order, lawyers for Cottrell and Williams claim that such an agreement between the NCAA and Culpepper would clearly result in bias[ed] testimony. According to court documents, the plaintiffs believe such an agreement was reached on or around Nov. 15, 2004. Cottrell and Williams are suing the NCAA and others, including Culpepper, for defamation after they were fired in the wake of a recruiting scandal. The motion claims: The defendants (Culpepper, the NCAA et al) base their decision not to produce the confidentiality agreement on erroneous conclusions of law and attempts to apply the Alabama Rules of Evidence to discovery. The plaintiffs are seeking $15 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages after being identified in an NCAA investigation, but later cleared. According to records released in the Logan Young criminal case in Memphis, Culpepper was a key secret witness for the NCAA in building its case against Alabama along with Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer. Culpepper's three-year contract to provide Alabama with video content of potential high school recruits concluded this past season. In early May, both Culpepper and the NCAA filed motions before Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge Steve Wilson for summary judgment because plaintiffs, as public figures cannot establish through clear and convincing evidence that any of the NCAA defendant's statements were made with 'actual malice' needed to sustain those claims. A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for June 23. Another hearing regarding the motions to compel will be held the following day, June 24. The case is scheduled for a jury trial beginning July 11. The initial motion to compel against Culpepper was filed on May 23. In its response, attorneys for the NCAA argued that the request seeks information that is immaterial, irrelevant and not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of the admissible evidence. This defendant also objects to this request for production to the extent that it seeks information that is personal, confidential and/or protected from disclosure pursuant to the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. The defense also contended that discovery of the agreement would have a chilling effect on the settlement negotiations - which plaintiffs denied. An additional motion against other defendants, including the NCAA, was filed Tuesday. In it, part of Rule 8 of the Alabama Rules of Evidence was highlighted: This rule also does not require exclusion when the evidence is offered for another purpose, such as proving bias or prejudice of a witness .. Culpepper is represented by Birmingham's John Scott, who could not be reached for comment. His firm, Starnes and Atchison, also represented the university in the initial stages of the lawsuit. In February, Young was convicted on four counts of conspiracy, crossing state lines to commit racketeering and arranging bank withdrawals to cover up a crime for paying a high school football coach to influence Tyrone Means' recruitment to Alabama. The former Crimson Tide booster is due to be sentenced Thursday by Judge Daniel Breen of the District Court for Western Tennessee. The 64-year-old businessman could receive anything from probation to jail time, with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and $750,000 in fines, though federal guidelines call for a lesser sentence. Breen will also rule on motions for a new trial and judgment of acquittal. Following sentencing, Young's attorneys are expected to immediately appeal. Reach Christopher Walsh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or at (205) 722-0196. ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Cottrell got work.
http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/11145072638530.xml X-Tide assistant hired by Ozark school Cottrell takes over as head football coach at Carroll High School Tuesday, April 26, 2005 DOUG SEGREST News staff writer Former University of Alabama assistant head football coach Ronnie Cottrell will be back on the sidelines next fall. The 45-year-old Cottrell was hired Monday as the head coach at Ozark's Carroll High School, where he replaces Bobby Bennett. His hiring marks Carroll's return to coaching after a four-year exile following the dismissal of former Alabama head coach Mike DuBose's coaching staff. [...] kurt ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Cottrell lawyer eyes ex-SEC, UA chiefs
Cottrell lawyer eyes ex-SEC, UA chiefs 07/17/03 MIKE PERRIN News staff writer Ronnie Cottrell's attorney intends to confront former Southeastern Conference Commissioner Roy Kramer, former University of Alabama President Andrew Sorensen and possibly current Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer for information in his effort to restore Cottrell's reputation. Asked if he would subpoena Fulmer in Cottrell and Ivy Williams' $60 million lawsuit, Thomas Gallion III of Birmingham said Wednesday, I'm going to try. I haven't made up my mind yet because I need some more information. The subpoena would be for a deposition, since state law bars compelling trial witnesses from traveling more than 100 miles to testify in civil lawsuits, Gallion said. Gallion would question Kramer and Sorensen, among others, as he attempts to gather information for the lawsuit. The suit alleges that Cottrell and Williams were tarnished by the NCAA investigation into Alabama's recruitment of Albert Means in Memphis. Because of the investigation and an ongoing federal grand jury probe in Memphis, Gallion said Cottrell and Williams are unable to get coaching jobs at any major college. Today in Tuscaloosa, Gallion and a team of attorneys representing the defendants in the suit will meet with Circuit Court Judge Steve Wilson for a status conference. Gallion said the judge would not rule on any motions in the case today, but he expected him to set a schedule for further discovery in the suit. Conspiracy claim: In the suit, Gallion has charged the NCAA with conspiring with Kramer, Gene Marsh, Marie Robbins, Tom Culpepper and several University of Tennessee boosters to ... go after the football program at the University of Alabama. The NCAA, its Committee on Infractions Chairman Thomas E. Yeager, investigator Richard A. Johannegmeier, UA faculty athletics representative Marsh, former compliance officer Robbins, freelance recruiting analyst Culpepper and attorney Richard Hilliard, who represented UA in the NCAA investigation, are named in the suit. We're just starting, Gallion said. It's going to be a bone-chiller if it comes out like I figure. If not, well, at least we got it out on the table. Gallion said before he took Cottrell's case he asked Cottrell to take a lie-detector test. I sent Ronnie to Richard Ratliff, the No.1 polygraph expert in the country, and I wouldn't take his case until he took that test. I didn't believe him, either. I'd been brainwashed. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Cottrell attorney to come calling on Fran
I made one of my rare trips to Alabama this weekend and heard some of the Finebaum Show and some other nameless Aubie oriented show...apparently some people think that Marsh and Robbins covered things up to save the Alabama football programand some of those Aubie are absolutely psychotic in their hatred of Alabama...wow...its like the X files...and further more I watched the Junction Boys again...and became more disappointed in Berenger...Bryant accent...if he could nail a traitorous Irish soldier he coulda nailed Coach Bryant...if he had caredI think I ll go over to Beaufort and tell himormaybe notAfter all this I just have to scream RTR a little louder!!! __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Cottrell attorney to come calling on Fran
http://www.al.com/sports/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/sports/1057945580221660.xml Cottrell attorney to come calling on Fran 07/11/03 By PAUL GATTIS Times Sports Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] TUSCALOOSA - Former Alabama football coach Dennis Franchione apparently won't be making a clean getaway to Texas AM. An attorney representing former Alabama assistant football coach Ronnie Cottrell in Cottrell's lawsuit against the NCAA said Thursday that he intends to provide evidence supporting his client via Franchione. He does not want to be involved in this, Montgomery attorney Tommy Gallion said. According to Gallion, a reason Franchione abruptly left Alabama for Texas AM last December was because of the performance by Gene Marsh and Marie Robbins in defending the school in its case against the NCAA. Marsh is the school's faculty athletics chairman while Robbins was the school's director of NCAA compliance. She is now the school's senior women's athletics administrator. Together, Marsh and Robbins spearheaded Alabama's investigation in the case that eventually led to crushing sanctions being leveled against the Crimson Tide football program. Marsh and Robbins are also defendants in Cottrell's lawsuit, which was originally filed last December. The suit seeks $60 million in damages and alleges Cottrell - a former assistant coach at Alabama - was wrongly accused in the scandal and ruined his coaching career. Another former Tide assistant, Ivy Williams, has added his name to the lawsuit as well. Gallion said affidavits recently obtained by his investigators point toward Franchione's frustration with Marsh and Robbins. One (affidavit) talks about a good friend of Coach Franchione, Gallion said. It basically says that Franchione could not operate with Gene Marsh and Marie Robbins in the athletic department. Gallion did not elaborate further, nor did he give any details of a new out-of-state defendant who he said will be added to the lawsuit in papers to be filed Tuesday. But Gallion said the several affidavits will be among the papers filed Tuesday in Tuscaloosa County circuit court. The case has been transferred to Tuscaloosa County from Montgomery County. We're going to file an amended complaint next Tuesday, Gallion said. We have not been able to get any of the documents we have requested from any of the defendants. So we've had to for the last several weeks put together additional facts ourselves by our investigators. We intend to lay these out in the complaint along with sworn affidavits from people. Among the defendants in the case are the NCAA, NCAA infractions committee chairman Thomas Yeager, recruiting analyst Tom Culpepper, Marsh and Robbins. Gallion reiterated his claim that the recruiting scandal for former Memphis prep star Albert Means was purely manufactured by Tennessee boosters, including Roy Adams - who once was a close friend of Logan Young. Young, of course, has been accused of bankrolling the deal that brought Means to Alabama. Young, who has been permanently disassociated by Alabama as a booster, has denied any wrongdoing. A federal grand jury in Memphis has been investigating the case for almost two years. It's going to be interesting, Gallion said. We're fighting hard to put it all together. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Cottrell I've felt quite alone, to be honest.
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[RollTideFan] Cottrell, Williams charges dropped
TUSCALOOSA The NCAA has withdrawn allegations of unethical conduct against former University of Alabama assistant football coaches Ivy Williams and Ronnie Cottrell and has reduced a charge involving the recruitment of 2000 signee Albert Means. LINK
