PAC-12, Mountain West back to court after the mediation failed

The conferences of PAC-12 and Mountain West are brought back to court after they have not achieved a comparison contract in mediation over $ 55 million of “wildlife fees”.

The conferences have reached an agreement on Tuesday by the mediation period that started in May. The PAC-12 applied for a hearing on the pending application for dismissal on September 9.

“The PAC-12 is still obliged to promote legal steps as a response to the attempt by the WESTERS Mountain, to impose so-called” poaching punishments “. The provisions of which we believe that they are illegal and intends to hinder our ability to act in the best interests of our student athletes and member institutions,” said the PAC-12 in a statement.

The PAC-12 and some of the schools that she submitted last year added complaints and claims that the wildlife clause had agreed when it signed a planning agreement for his football teams for the last season.

The clause demanded payments for the first team to rose by 500,000 US dollars for each additional team, payments to the mountain west of $ 10 million for the first team. This was in addition to the exit fees of $ 17 million, for which schools were responsible for another agreement.

“The mountain vest gave the PAC-12 institutions a lifeline and offers a complete football plan for the 2024 season,” said the Berg West in a statement. “The PAC-12 willingly signed the planning agreement with full knowledge of the contractual provisions and tries to avoid its legal obligations. The mountain vests will protect the interests of our member institutions aggressively and is fully prepared to fully account for the PAC-12.”

The state of Colorado, the state of San Diego, the state of Fresno and the state of Boise, will connect the PAC-12 from 2026. The conference added to Texas State last month to reach the minimum with eight teams to get an automatic offer for his conference champion in the college football playoff.

The state of Oregon and the state of Washington are the only remaining members after an exodus in the past year, which threatened the future of the conference. The two schools achieved a planning contract with the Mountain West schools so that they could put together a football plan last season.

The mountain vest has added Utep, Hawaii and North Fillinois to football from 2026.