Former University of Connecticut head coach Kevin Ollie just had his $11.1 million arbitration case rule in his favor, as the school was forced to pay him the eight-figure sum. UConn has now reportedly complied with shelling out the amount but isn't necessarily in agreement with having to foot that bill.

In a statement, UConn said it has “serious concerns” about the ruling affecting the integrity with which it can run its basketball operations. But nonetheless, the university has decided against further legal action and is taking the financial blow to the chin.

Via ESPN:

“The university has serious concerns about how this ruling impacts UConn’s proactive efforts to run a program with integrity and in full NCAA compliance,” UConn said in a statement. “This is precisely why all of our coaches have employment contracts detailing their compliance obligations. The arbitrator’s reliance on the collective bargaining agreement in this case, rather than the contract, undercuts that effort.”

The arbitration ruling settled a longstanding case in which Kevin Ollie asserted he was fired improperly amid the NCAA coming down on his tenure for various violations between 2013-2018.

According to Ollie's camp, UConn was using “false claims” in order to justify that it had proper cause for his firing.

“The University of Connecticut is putting the best spin on a case where the university’s highest officials were found to have engaged in what can only be described as illegal and unethical conduct by making false claims, without evidence, that Kevin Ollie was not a truthful person,” said the legal team of the former UConn coach.

UConn has not had much success in the three full seasons since Kevin Ollie's departure in 2018, missing the NCAA tournament in the first two seasons and losing in the first round of the tourney last year under the tutelage of new coach Dan Hurley.