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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 4936268, member: 3723"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/26/pac-12-legal-affairs-what-the-negotiated-settlement-means-for-wsu-osu-and-the-10-departing-members/[/URL] [I]“Another provision designed to protect the outbound schools: if the PAC-12 conference desolves before August 2026, all 12 current members will share the assets, thus ensuring WSU and OSU can’t shut the lights out and keep the money for themselves”[/I] They have a two year “grace period” from the NCAA to operate as a 2 team league (2024 and 2025). Given the above contractual provision in the settlement, they have to rebuild the PAC-12 (perhaps a reverse merger with some of all of the MWC) by summer 2026 to keep their $250M. [/QUOTE]