LITTLE ROCK -- Nolan Richardson's will be in limbo for another day, with the University of Arkansas' system president saying Wednesday he is not ready to say whether he agrees with a decision to terminate the Arkansas coach's contract.

Two days after President B. Alan Sugg met with Richardson, his office released a one-paragraph statement that said Sugg "continues to review the termination of the employment agreement between the University of Arkansas and Nolan Richardson Jr., and no announcement will be made today."

Richardson is hopeful that Sugg will reverse a decision to terminate Richardson's $1.03 million-a-year coaching pact. Sugg said Monday he would decide in a day or two.

At the state Capitol, where administrators and legislators had gathered Wednesday to discuss higher education issues, Sugg said "I don't know" when asked whether he made a decision.

Fayetteville campus Chancellor John White said March 1 the university would buy out the last six years of Richardson's contract for $500,000 a year. Richardson was one year into a seven-year deal when White moved to void the pact.

When Sugg makes a decision, Richardson lawyer John Walker of Little Rock, will be told first, and then it will be released publicly, the university said.

Walker was guarded Wednesday.

"We are hoping, but not expecting, that President Sugg will do the right thing and reinstate Mr. Richardson, and with it create an environment which is positive and supportive rather than negative and destructive," he said before Sugg's latest statement.

The university president and Richardson met for three hours Monday. Later, the former coach released more than 80 pages of documents that he said made his case for reversing the decision White made after Richardson said publicly after a Feb. 23 loss at Kentucky, "If they go ahead and pay me my money, they can take the job tomorrow."

A chronology by White indicated he had a discussion with Bud Walton Arena Fred Vorsanger the next day. White said Vorsanger had told him about Richardson remarking Feb. 22 about wanting to be bought out. Walker dismissed the comments that White attributed to Vorsanger, noting the arena manager's long friendship with Broyles.

"Coach Richardson was never afforded the opportunity to confront Vorsanger," the lawyer said. "I would certainly say that Richardson denies that he told Vorsanger that he was ready to quit coaching the Razorbacks."

The White memo also indicates that, after consulting with Broyles, he decided Feb. 24 that a coaching change was needed. In several interviews between then and March 1, when the decision was announced, White said several times that he didn't know anything about an effort to remove the coach.