Just how far should OSU/WSU go.....

Good point. Part of the Pac 2's case relies on past actions towards the first 2 that left. They'd be tossing that aside if they were to withhold this year's distribution to the 10.

Not sure what happens if the Pac-2 change the bylaws though.

I personally think that they are and that this is what this lawsuit is all about.  They may trying to get there incrementally, but that is their end goal. 

It is the foot-in-the-door technique.  All we want is this.  Ok, you can have that.  Now that we have this, all we want is that. 

All I want is Austria.  Now that I have Austria, all I want is the Sudetenland.  Now that I have Czechoslovakia, all I want is the Polish Corridor.

I believe that the University of Washington's other strategy is to stall to try and increase the chances that they get even more of the money for the next six years through settlement.

Their actions seem to be geared toward both goals.

But I think I'm paranoid.

OSU and WSU should pursue what they would legitimately be entitled to receive on or after August 1 with the utmost zeal and thoroughness, which they seem to be doing. Since two wrongs do not make a right, they should make zero effort to deny the traitorous ten what they would legitimately be entitled to receive up to and including July 31, which they would also seem to be doing.

If there is ever a renewed dialogue with any of the ten down the road, OSU and WSU want to be in a position to say, "Your action in leaving the conference did great harm to those remaining, but you had every right to do that. Your further actions trying to deny those remaining that which was legally theirs, as outlined in the conference by-laws you had willingly signed and announced you were bound by, did massive, almost irreparable harm to the two of us. Conversely, we did nothing to interfere with your moving on to another conference, and made no claim against monies owed to you while you were a member of our conference.

Now you want to have discussions about putting the toothpaste back in the tube, a very difficult thing to do. If you wish to approach this by stating up front that you recognize the harm you did us and want to try to make amends while simultaneously reestablishing a relationship, we'll enter into that conversation. If, however, you simply want to bring us into your fold as lesser partners, we would remind you of the old adage, 'fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.' Then, we would suggest, as politely as the occasion calls for, that you go f%#* yourself."

Need to tread carefully here. I'm sure you've heard about the wife who asked her husband what to get the mailman for Christmas. When he came home from work to find her in bed with the mailman she exclaimed, well you told me to F-him........ 

Go Beavs!!

I don't think the T10 expected revenue after this year unless they could dissolve the PAC 12. They are using getting paid for this year as an excuse to get a judge to put them back in voting control of the pac-12 so they can dissolve it. However WSU and OSU are sueing to block them from getting back on the board and likely have 0 expectations to hold this year's money back.

I firmly don't believe that OSU or WSU intended to keep 500 million dollars of revenue from this year. With the exception of funds owed to the PAC but paid out to the conference over time. Consider the narrative being spun a smoke screen to get in so you can light the match that burns it down.


OSU and WSU get 100's of millions in future revenue and infrastructure too build off of by retaining the PAC 12. They could also choose to disband the PAC 2 after the other 10 are truly gone and divvy up assets. Example we play one season without a conference. Then dissolve the PAC 2 as we join the big 12 and wsu and OSU take roughly $250 million over 9 years plus a 50 percent split of the assets the PAC 2 may have owned.