THE SIDELINES : Ex-Coach Sues Tulane Over Income

Mack Brown, former head football coach at Tulane and now head football coach at North Carolina, has sued Tulane to recover $55,000 he says he is owed for 1987 television and radio appearances and product endorsements.

Brown, who was also Tulane’s athletic director from 1985 through 1987, said in a Civil Court suit that during the 1985 and 1986 football seasons, he was allowed to make his own arrangements for radio and TV appearances and product endorsements. That changed in the spring of 1987, according to the suit, when Tulane President Eamon Kelly decreed that such contracts be handled through the athletic department.

Brown contends that he was guaranteed $60,000 a year from radio and TV appearances and product endorsements, plus half of profits from income above the figure.

He says Tulane has refused to give him any of the money.