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As a lawsuit at the University of Kentucky shows, colleges had better nail down the details when they hire big-name coaches. Billy Gillispie (above), who had served as the Wildcats' men's basketball coach on the basis of a "memorandum of understanding," sued the university after he was fired in March. (Photograph by Mark Cornelison, Lexington Herald-Leader, MCT)

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