Shoup Considering a Legal Appeal of CLU Dismissal

Bob Shoup, Cal Lutheran’s disenfranchised football coach, will decide today whether he will appeal the school’s decision to replace him at the conclusion of the upcoming season.

“I’ve talked to a jillion people,” Shoup said Thursday evening. “I’ve consulted an attorney and I’m going to see him tonight. What I do depends largely on what he has to say.”

Shoup, 57, has tentatively scheduled a 1 p.m. press conference in the Cal Lutheran athletic lounge to divulge his plans.

Shoup claims that Cal Lutheran did not operate by the terms of its own faculty handbook when the school announced Shoup would not be allowed to coach after returning from a sabbatical leave in the fall of 1991.

The handbook, Shoup says, states that a tenured faculty member will retain his or her position for the following school year. Cal Lutheran officials have said that Shoup will be welcomed back as a teacher but not as football coach.