After crippling the Mountain West by taking five of its teams, the Pac-12 is now suing it to get out of paying “poaching penalties” associated with a scheduling agreement it signed last year.
In that one, the farmer finds a snake frozen on a winter morning and near death. Wary of the snake’s venom but moved by pity, he warms the reptile to keep it alive. Once revived, the snake does what comes naturally and bites the farmer, who dies.
After crippling the Mountain West, the Pac-12 is now suing it to get out of paying fees associated with a scheduling agreement it signed last year. The Pac-12 is trying to avoid “poaching penalties” for swiping five schools from that league—Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State andWith the implosion of the Pac-12 as 10 members departed for three different conferences, the Oregon State Beavers and Washington State Cougars had half of a schedule of games each.
The departing Mountain West schools are on the hook for $17.5 million each in exit fees—those fees are not being contested. But there were additional eight-figure penalties written into the scheduling agreement for each school if the Pac-12 takes Mountain West members to rebuild, which is exactly what has happened.
The Pac-12 is challenging the legality of the poaching penalties, saying that they constitute an anti-competitive restraint of trade for the rebuilding league. The league has savvy representation, using the same firm that helped it win a key legal battle with Its departing schools last year. “To say that the Mountain West was taking advantage of the Pac-12 could not be farther from the truth. The Pac-12 has taken advantage of our willingness to help them and enter into a scheduling agreement with full acknowledgment and legal understanding of their obligations. Now that they have carried out their plan to recruit certain Mountain West schools, they want to walk back what they legally agreed to. There has to be a consequence to these types of actions.
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