Another step has been taken in the ongoing legal battle between former Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema and the Razorback Foundation.

There’s a pending lawsuit between the two sides to determine whether Bielema is due $7 million from a buyout clause. Bielema had sued the Razorback Foundation, which pays coaches’ salaries and buyouts, then the foundation countersued.

Now, it turns out that lawyers for Bielema and his agent, Neil Cornrich, filed a 15-page motion for Rule 11 sanctions against the Razorback Foundation, according to Darren Heitner of Above the Law. This motion “seeks to establish the notoriety of the lawyers and the lengthy personal relationships on the line based on acts that have taken place in the litigation,” per Heitner.

Heitner offers the following legal breakdown:

The lawyers who filed the Rule 11 motion for sanctions mainly take issue with the Razorback Foundation claiming in its counterclaim that Bielema and Cornrich fraudulently induced the Razorback Foundation to enter into a release agreement knowing that Bielema would not fulfill his legal commitment to try to mitigate damages in the case he was let go by the University of Arkansas. The Razorback Foundation also claimed that Cornrich made fraudulent misrepresentations to it in order to procure the release agreement.

The gist of the Razorback Foundation’s claims, which Bielema and Cornrich take issue with, is this idea that Bielema, Cornrich, and New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick entered into some scheme to cause Bielema to be underpaid for his role with the Patriots, purposefully bringing harm to the Razorback Foundation.

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This news came shortly after it was reported that New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has been subpoenaed in the lawsuit. Bielema went on to serve as an assistant for Belichick, and the Razorback Foundation believes the Patriots intentionally paid Bielema less money so that he could keep getting his buyout from Arkansas.

It’s clear that this could continue to be a messy situation, as it appears the battle will keep going.

Bielema was the head coach at Arkansas from 2013-17, and he was fired in November 2017. He went on to serve as an assistant for the Patriots from 2018-19, and this year, he’s in his first season as a defensive assistant for the New York Giants.