OSU, WSU ask court to strip all departing Pac-12 schools of board seats

In the latest filing in Oregon State and Washington State's lawsuit against the Pac-12 and commissioner George Kliavkoff, the two schools introduced several exhibits obtained during discovery that establish the conference removed UCLA, USC and Colorado from its board after the schools announced they were leaving for the Big Ten and Big 12.

OSU and WSU had concerns that if a board meeting were held -- and included the 10 departing schools -- those schools could force a vote to take action detrimental to the future of the conference. A hearing for a preliminary injunction is set for Nov. 14, at which point the court will likely determine who has voting rights on the Pac-12 board.

OSU and WSU argued,"The fact that eight additional schools have withdrawn since USC and UCLA does not erase this conflict or somehow change the meaning of the Bylaws. Indeed, that 'direct conflict' now infects all ten departing schools, who are committed to competitors and have no incentive to invest in the Pac-12's future.In September 2022, a"briefing book" about the board of directors was distributed to conference board members.

Another exhibit, a memo drafted by a high-ranking Pac-12 official, shows that after Colorado also announced its intentions to leave the conference, the Pac-12 board -- then made up of nine schools -- was"contemplating seeking considerable financial damages against our departing members that could result in supplemental distributions to the remaining 9 universities." Earlier this month, Washington filed a motion to intervene, seeking to join the lawsuit and file for a dismissal.

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