The Superior Court of Washington ruled in favor of Oregon State and Washington State Monday, granting a temporary emergency restraining order against the Pac-12 that will disable the conference from conducting formal board meetings until the court rules further. Judge Gary Libey, however, amended the order to allow the Pac-12 to conduct business regarding urgent matters for the 2023-24 academic year before 10 of its 12 members depart for other conferences next summer.
The hearing and subsequent ruling came less than one week after Oregon State and Washington State, which are the only continuing Pac-12 members beyond the 2023-24 academic year, filed a complaint against the conference and commissioner George Kliavkoff. The complaint seeks to prevent any votes on the Pac-12’s future from occurring until legal clarity is obtained on who controls what is left of the conference.
From what I saw fromThe Athletic on this, it looks like the bylaws of the division require that you’re removed from the board when you file intent to leave so OSU & WSU are totally in the right.
The worst part was that some of the teams leaving were hoping to carve up the PAC so they could use the resources to pay off the move to a new division. Truly embarrassing and dirty move.
Haven’t seen who. Have you? Off the top of my head, ASU, Cal, Stanford seem the obvious candidates as the ones who thought “this is fine” and may not understand what they had to do. I feel like Utah is counting on being good, the B1G schools actually will be fine, Colorado wanted out, and Zona loves basketball.
I didn’t see any names but it seemed like all were interested in pocketing the resources they could on the way out.