re: Washington files motion to dismiss Wazzu/Oregon St Pac 12 lawsuit

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Snoop Dawg

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Holy shite and great balls of fire! Your own post contradicts you and proves WSU and OSU right.

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Additionally, if a member delivers notice of withdrawal in violation of this chapter, the member’s representative to the CEO Group shall automatically cease to be a member of the CEO Group and shall cease to have the right to vote on any matterbefore the CEO Group. Dissolution.

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I don’t know how you can argue with that. It’s in the bylaws which you posted. Washington even agreed with it last year after USC and UCLA announced their intention to move. Now that Washington is leaving you are trying to say that the bylaws don’t mean what they say.

I hope WSU and OSU get every penny and win every court matter.

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Imagine there’s a nice house where there’s 12 roommates. 10 want to leave. The 2 that don’t can’t afford rent or upkeep. The 10 who want to leave absolutely have a right to sell the house and say “sorry guys”. Elon Musk may have changed it to X but his lawyers aren’t gonna let me start a shittier website and name it Twitter

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You must be vacationing in Disney World because the only place this happened was Fantasy Land.

USC and UCLA left the other 10 and were branded traitors by you and the other schools who remained. They weren't getting a dime to leave. Now you want to join them and empty the coffers. I hope it all goes to the Beavs and Cougs and you idiots get nothing.

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No member shall deliver a notice of withdrawal to the Conference in the period beginning on July 24, 2011, and ending on August 1, 2024; provided, that if any member does deliver a notice of withdrawal prior to August 1, 2024, in violation of this chapter, the Conference shall be entitled to an injunction and other equitable relief to prevent such breach

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This isn't as simple as you're trying to argue. The issue is whether declaring that you're leaving is giving the notice of withdrawal.

It's very likely announcing that they're leaving the Pac12 constitutes this notice (you didn't provide any other contractual definitions, if any exist), and since it's October 11, 2023, clearly this notice was delivered prior to August 1, 2024.

UW and company are trying to play both sides and pretend that their agreement with other conferences and public statements about joining another conference somehow isn't this official "notice of withdrawal", and they can withdraw from the conference legally (by making legal agreements with other conferences) somehow without this constituting notice of that withdrawal.

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I hope WSU and OSU get every penny and win every court matter.

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Me too. I hope the courts rule that OSU and WSU are the only voting members left in the PAC12. I hope they vote to withhold all revenue from the departing members as a penalty for damaging the conference. That probably would not hold up in court but it would be funny to see.

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Jon Wilner@wilnerhotline

News: In a sworn statement in the Comcast case, commissioner George Kliavkoff said USC and UCLA had been removed from #Pac12 board - a potentially significant development for the WSU/OSU lawsuit

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LINK

Court ruling yesterday-

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Oregon State and Washington State are now considered the only two voting members of the Pac-12 and have sole power to set the agenda and make decisions for the future of the conference. It also prevents the remaining 10 schools from voting to sell off any assets or contracts before the conference drops from 12 to two members.

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Oregon State and Washington State are now considered the only two voting members of the Pac-12 and have sole power

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As it should. The rest of you left, so FO.

Living up to the letter of the conference agreement is likely the best victory.

I’d have to parse the contract all the schools signed but, if it is anything like most other conference contracts, all monies from various deals get pulled from teams as soon as they announce they are leaving and the remaining pie gets divided up between the other members.

In this case, it means that Wazzu and the Beav each get one share of all conference revenues and the conference gets the rest. And they can control what the conference spends it on.


I’d slash a lot of the conference spending on expensive offices and shite like that they clearly no longer need and start making long term plans for a reverse merger with the Mountain West.