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Sep 25, 2024
10:09:05pm
RenoCoug All-American
They are suing to not pay the additional fees set up in the scheduling agreement
The schools (and Pac 12, who said they would pay) still have to pay the $18 million exit fee per school. The question is, do they have to pay the $10 million+ for poaching under the scheduling agreement? Under that agreement, the Pac 12 would have to pay the following:

$10.0 million (first school poached)
$10.5 million (second school poached)
$11.0 million (third team)
$11.5 million
$12.0 million

$55 million more under the scheduling agreement.

Interesting argument too, by the Pac 12, claiming they only signed it because they were desperate and so this is a penalty and the MWC was taking advantage of them. The MWC will have a strong argument that this payment isn't a penalty but was a deterrent to prevent the Pac 12 from doing exactly what they are now doing, which is poaching the MWC and making it possible that the conference no longer exists. I would enforce the provision if I were the judge hearing the case.
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