Unless you’ve been unplugged on a sugar-white sand beach somewhere or helping the bag man organize payments in a remote hunting cabin in Pontotoc County where there’s no cell service, you’re aware of Houston Nutt’s lawsuit against Ole Miss. Nutt is suing Ole Miss because he claims they violated the terms of their severance agreement, which is the same agreement that would eventually allow him to be paid $4.35 million to stop destroying the football program.
Without wading too deeply into the weeds, lest we get lost and left to die, Section 8 of the severance agreement says that Ole Miss is prohibited from making any statement about Nutt’s tenure in Oxford that “may damage or harm his reputation at a football coach.