Good stuff.
I read your Complaint Rifle, so they gave you an apartment that was full of mold, cockroaches, trash, and filthy. But despite being loaded, you continued to live there.
Coach-
I appreciate your inquiry. Though I can't speak for King Rifle, I do remember a lot of what he posted on here when he was asked about it a couple of years ago after somebody else read the documents.
He said it was a new apartment building that were pretty nice, but filthy when he moved in. Supposedly, they didn't have time to get it ready before he moved in. So when he arrived on his official hire date, they put him in a hotel until they could get the apartment ready.
After moving in, he didn't continue to live there. He went and got a hotel which the university was supposed to reimburse (yeah, that didn't happen). During that time, the university bombed the apartment to rid it of cockroaches. They then supposedly hired a cleaner to come make it spotless. The odd thing is that the university didn't own the building. For some reason (presumably a lower rent cost for them), they were acting as the property manager of the building. So, King Rifle moved back in (as part of his contract, they were providing him with a 3 bed/3 bath apartment). A month before, while in town for his interview, he actually looked at apartments available in two different buildings he could choose from, and he selected that one.
After moving back in, he realized the cleaner didn't really clean well. So, he hired his own cleaners. Though he was supposed to have his own apartment, another coach moved in a couple of months later. Being the new cracker at an HBCU, King Rifle didn't want to continue being the problem new hire, so he didn't voice opposition to this.
A new full-time strength coach was hired a few months later. Being a nice guy, King Rifle allowed the new coach to sleep on his couch until he had the time to look for and secure an apartment (there was an extra bedroom and bathroom, but King Rifle didn't furnish it). That is pretty common in the coaching world; a new hire gets put up in a hotel briefly and then usually crashes with a fellow coach until he finds his own place (example to follow). When the athletic department somehow found out that the strength coach had stayed on King Rifle's couch for a week, the administration called King Rifle and the strength coach in for a meeting. They both were "written up" and had something placed in their "file." Why? King Rifle wasn't sure. The administration docked the strength coach's next paycheck for a pro-rated amount for the week he was in the apartment.
At that point, King Rifle told them to eat a bag of dicks and said he would get his own apartment and that his contract had to be restructured to reflect that so his salary would be increased. The head coach promised to take care of it, blah, blah blah . . . that went on for a bit.
King Rifle left the state to visit his blazing, smokeshow girlfriend. While there, he received an email from an administrator telling him that he had to move out of the apartment by a certain date. The university bought the building King Rifle was living in and basically were kicking him out. They gave him a date he had to leave by; but, since his contract included that as part of his regular renumeration, it would have to be changed. King Rifle responded that he was out of town and wouldn't be back by that date. After arriving back in town, King Rifle told the coach about the issue. When complaining about this, the head coach told King Rifle that he checked with the administration and was told that he didn't have to move out on that date since they had to restructure his contract. Two weeks later, King Rifle received an angry email from an administrator claiming that he was supposed to have moved out two weeks earlier, and if he didn't have his stuff out that night, it would be put on the sidewalk. The new owners (the university) gave keys to the apartment to all types of contractors which led to over $1000 in King Rifle's items being stolen. None were gold chains (he prefers platinum and doesn't own yellow gold, and all of his jewelry pieces are well over $1000), but they included a variety of items.
King Rifle then went to a hotel for 1.5 months (which was supposed to have been reimbursed by the university), allowing him time to buy his own place on the beach. When a new football hire was made (the former Duke head coach), that hire stayed at King Rifle's new place for a week or two, which as I explained earlier, is quite normal.
From what I remember King Rifle posting regarding the police episode . . . the relationship between the head coach and King Rifle started to sour after the first year. An anonymous email was sent to the conference commissioner complaining about NCAA violations, lack of payment for some coaches, a locker room which was unhealthy for players, etc. During an emergency meeting with the staff to tell them of the email, the head coach basically blamed it on two coaches. Knowing who the two coaches were who hadn't been getting their contractually owed salary on time, he assumed the author of the email was one of those two. Of course, none of those two had any idea what he was talking about since the head coach refused to get specific about it in front of the whole staff. Since that time, the relationship went downhill.
Shortly thereafter, the police were able to breach an outside door to the facilities building (coaches offices, weight room, meeting rooms, doctor's office, massage therapist's office, hall of fame, etc.). They were there to interview the head coach about his involvement in hiding a witness so that she couldn't provide info to the police about a crime that had just been committed by a football player. After breaching the first door, the police were inside the building, but they weren't able to get in the second door to the offices and meeting rooms (the place was as secure as Fort Knox, complete with keypads on every door, cameras in every meeting room/door/hall). King Rifle was in a film meeting when he heard a door being pounded on. He walked into the hall to see five uniformed police officers through the glass motioning him to open the door. As most people would do, he opened the door. This allowed the police to get to the head coach's office and question him. Down the hall, King Rifle and the other offensive coaches were able to easily hear the head coach yelling in the face of a police officer. The lines included "get the fvck out of my building," "stop calling me 'buddy,' I'm not your fvcking buddy," etc. The head coach had built a relationship with the police chief, so he knew nothing would be done to him. However, since King Rifle was shown on video opening the door for the police without knowing what was going on, it made the relationship a little more sour.
Even with a souring relationship, the head coach offered King Rifle a $30,000 pay raise to come be the new QB coach at Alabama State (he hadn't told the rest of the staff that he was accepting that job). The head coach only offered other positions to the receivers coach (who he was giving the "assistant head coach" title to as well as a big raise), the head strength coach, and his administrative assistant. King Rifle said that he would accept the position, but that he first needed all of the back money he was owed before leaving. Of course, that didn't go over well.
Days later, King Rifle had had enough of not getting paid what he was supposed to be and when he was supposed to be. Due to the issue persisting for more than a year, the athletic department set a meeting with King Rifle, the ADs, and the head coach so that his contract could be sorted; the whole time, the head coach blamed the athletic department, the athletic department blamed the football staff, and both parties also put blame on a new accounting system the university was using. Finally, King Rifle requested all parties sit down together so that the two other parties could stop blaming each other for the missing money. The day prior, King Rifle had cleared out his office. While on a beach run around noon, he received a call from the head coach who was livid. He had read about the mandatory meeting and claimed that King Rifle and the ADs were having "secret emails," which was hogwash. After all, he was clearly copied into them. Rifle arrived at the head coach's office. The head coach started accusing him of having secret communication with the ADs (hogwash, since King Rifle didn't trust those bastards, especially the one with felony assault on a police officer and a woman beating charge), sending the email to the commissioner (it ended up being the massage therapist who did it), etc. He then tried standing over King Rifle while Rifle was sitting down. He then tried instigating King Rifle to punch him by getting in his face and stepping on Rifle's feet (so that the other two people in the office couldn't see it, which means they would only see Rifle punching him), using racial slurs against him, etc.
Rifle then attempted to leave, but the head coach wouldn't let him. The 5'9, 180 lbs. head coach stood in front of the only way out of the office and refused to move. So, Rifle had to either get arrested for assaulting the officer or call somebody to help. He tried calling the AD with no luck. Then, the head coach called and got the AD on the phone. The AD was on his way back from the airport and insisted that both parties stay there. King Rifle refused to do that and recommended that the the AD tell his head coach to not hold him against his will. Then, the head coach said he was only holding Rifle due to Rifle having a playbook and a laptop (both at Rifle's house). Eventually, Rifle had to call the police. At the same time, the head coach called the campus police trying to get his story out there. After both parties and witnesses were interviewed, King Rifle was asked if he wanted to charges placed against the head coach, which he refused to do. He explained that he just didn't want to get an assault charge, so he called the police for assistance.
There are many, many more incidents which would leave you dumbfounded. This is just scratching the surface. The whole thing gets juicier when King Rifle faked a hidden recording in an exit meeting with the ADs, was able to take pictures of documents signed by the school's in-house counsel that a campus officer was holding while the assistant AD was yelling "don't let him take pictures," King Rifle documenting the school changing his title and bio on the football page after the lawsuit was filed, King Rifle having to set up a meeting to pretend he was going to accept their initial offer just so he could get proof of them admitting that they owed him money yet refusing to pay him until he promised not to sue them, etc.
After one of the above mentioned incidents, King Rifle was escorted out of the AD building by campus police. His actions on the way out led to the dismissal of the in-house counsel. You should ask about that story, coach, since it is a good one.