BREAKING: PAC-12 Breakup Heads To Conference Family Court On MONDAY (READ Complaint)

ASU's Michael Crow and UA's Bobby Robbins (in addition to the 8 other university Presidents) are incentivized to harm what remains of the PAC-12 conference at next week's meeting. Therefore, Washington State and Oregon State filed suit today to prevent the 10 departing members from participating in future meetings.

(On the same side now)

The Complaint was filed in Washington state court, against the PAC-12 Conference and its (soon-to-be) outgoing Commissioner George Kliavkoff. A Board Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday.

Judge Gary Libey has set a hearing on a Temporary Restraining Order for Monday morning (11am).

UA and ASU - along with Colorado and Utah - are joining the Big 12(?) Conference next year. USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington are joining the Big 10(?), and Cal and Stanford are joining the Atlantic(?) Coast Conference.

(In happier days)

OSU and WSU are looking at their options of "preserving" the Conference, which would likely involve recruiting most or all of the universities in the (less prestigious) Mountain West Conference. They accuse the other 12 universities of having the opposite intent: "On the contrary, they are now motivated to dissolve the Pac-12 - against which their new conferences will otherwise compete beginning next year - and distribute the assets.

In other words, the two remaining schools want to keep the possibly-substantial ($40M?) reserve funds, the future revenue from past performance in the mens' basketball tournaments, etc.

Instead of Sparky and Wilbur fighting each other, they - and 8 other mascots - will be doing courtroom battle with the Beaver and Cougar.

This article was reported by AZ Law founder Paul Weich. 

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