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From a legal perspective, this case is incredibly weak (and the complaint reads like it was written by an upset 6th grader). Despite WV's claims of some fiduciary duty to maintain a balance between football and bball onlies, it's pie in the sky. If they're hinting at a breach of the duty of loyalty, good luck finding evidence of that. No way this overcomes the business judgment rule, even if Marinatto was a disaster.
It's posturing, and screams of desperation by WV, all at the expense of the tuition-paying students and WV taxpayers.
I agree that the complaint is really poorly written, but one thing that they have latched on to that has merit is that the Big East bylaws permitted the basketball schools to essentially negotiate the football expansion because they hold the majority of seats now. That, coupled with how poorly it has gone, is going to give this legs.