Has any school ever broken a GOR?

[Excalibur]

Quite a lawyerly response. One one hand, these deals "are broken all the time", but you aren't saying "they are easy to break". So you are firmly on both sides of the issue. Got it.

If these deals "are broken all the time", can you point to one high profile case or even give a hypothetical example? I have provided 4 specific and about half a dozen hypothetical examples, and you haven't provided one. Maybe I am just being willfully ignorant though.

The bank teller struggles with reading comprehension. Go back and read the post again. Did I say that GOR agreements are broken all the time? There is a right and wrong answer.

 

[kyleslamb]

Bruce - I usually like your perspective but in this case, with all due respects, I think you're off base. I have written (perhaps) 200 contracts and my intent was always that they be enforced. That statement probably isn't strong enough as I made CERTAIN they were enforced. In this case I stand with Nelson in that I believe GOR is enforceable and I will continue to believe that until/unless GOR is successfully challenged.

On the other hand, in multiple party contracts, wouldn't you agree that if you're a party that is looking for loopholes for a client, wouldn't you want to leave the door cracked just enough in the event something goes awry?

Let's use a 2-year employment contract with a non-compete clause, as an example. If you're the business, sure, you would want to make the contract as ironclad as you can. But if you're representing a client, wouldn't you want a draft that has some hope of getting out of, just in case the relationship becomes untenable? I can't think of any attorney representing these schools that wouldn't want there to be a slight chance of them leaving if the conference became a cluster ****

 

[The Funster]

By the way, we are at the inflection point of the Grant of Rights. If all of you "the GOR is no big deal" people are right, we should expect Oklahoma to walk away in the next month or two. The President of the University came out against Texas, and there is clearly dissension in the ranks of the Big 12. If All Oklahoma has to do is write a check, they will be gone soon. Right?

Stop with the strawmen. I haven't seen anyone say they can just walk away in a month or two. What people are saying is that it isn't as ironclad as we all thought it was.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Stop with the strawmen. I haven't seen anyone say they can just walk away in a month or two. What people are saying is that it isn't as ironclad as we all thought it was.

Hedge away.

Unless there is a contractual hole, for which there is no way for any of us to know, I think the Big 12, ACC, Pac 12 and Big 10 are unpoachable for the duration of the current deals.