WVU claims they will be out after this year

[OrangePA]

If they show up and start playing in the Big 12 next year what can the Big East do? Throw them in football jail?

Seriously, what can they do? All the BE can do is sue them which results in WV losing a lawsuit and having to pay the Big East. Which I am sure they are more than willing to do now.

TRO/Injunction

 

[dollarbill44]

TRO/Injunction

I will preface this by saying I'm not a lawyer, (although I've been involved in a handful of contract lawsuits including some that cross state/international boundaries and one involving WVU), but aren't temporary restraining orders usually issued just to buy a few extra days until a preliminary hearing can be held? An injunction is a little different situation as these can be longer term, but, what are the odds that the BE could get one? I ask because I honestly don't know. Even if they could get one, couldn't WVU go to a higher court and have a decent shot at getting it vacated? These things get sticky because the judges making these decisions are usually politically appointed (not to impugn any judges out there).

I could also see a judge stating that 9 months is plenty of time to replace WVU on the schedules of teams since it happens all the time that games are dropped and replaced within the same calendar year.

 

[elimunelson]

The story changes once all these new schools agree to join the Big East. Then the jockeying begins on when teams can leave. There is no incentive to hold schools hostage by other schools looking to leave as well. Clearer heads will prevail and that's why the intelligencia of Syracuse and Pitt are quiet right now. The mentally challenged types like Oliver Luck are trying to force something that probably doesn't need to be forced.

 

[Noexcuse]

I would expect Syracuse and Pitt to get $0 from WfVU's exit fee. Our friends in Providence would argue that the ACC-bound started this mess.

I don't know. If they leave a vacant date in the schedule, it seems SU should receive some sort of compensation. It affects us just as much as the other football schools.

 

[TexanMark]

byu isn't coming.

Lets wait a few days...BYU might have an epiphany. The Big East is playing hard ball as they should. BYU is extremely difficult to work with according to MWC fans.

 

[newmexicuse]

If they show up and start playing in the Big 12 next year what can the Big East do? Throw them in football jail?

Seriously, what can they do? All the BE can do is sue them which results in WV losing a lawsuit and having to pay the Big East. Which I am sure they are more than willing to do now.

Restraining order......

 

[All4SU]

Seems like it would need to move pretty quickly if SU had any chance of being in the ACC for the 2012 football season. ACC has more logistics to work out. Big 12 is easier since they're just swapping names. aTm for TCU, Mizzou for WVU.

But we could sit back, watch how it plays out, and then potentially be in the ACC for the 2013 football season instead of waiting until 2014.

I have never felt we had any chance of being in the ACC in 2012. Never mind the BE contracts, there are just too many details and scheduling problems to work out. I still feel that 2013 will be the official move, regardless of the BE desired 27 month claim.

 

[SU2NASA]

But wouldn't every Big East team need to come up with one more game? Shouldn't WVU be expected to pay for those?

Let them play each other one more time. Wouldn't you like to see Rutgers-South Florida one more time every year?

 

[Moontan]

Let them play each other one more time. Wouldn't you like to see Rutgers-South Florida one more time every year?

That would work if there were an even number of teams in the league...

 

[SU2NASA]

That would work if there were an even number of teams in the league...

Details. Let Rutgers schedule the Greensboro School of Barbers and the other six can play an extra game against each other.

Everybody wins!

 

[OrangePA]

I will preface this by saying I'm not a lawyer, (although I've been involved in a handful of contract lawsuits including some that cross state/international boundaries and one involving WVU), but aren't temporary restraining orders usually issued just to buy a few extra days until a preliminary hearing can be held? An injunction is a little different situation as these can be longer term, but, what are the odds that the BE could get one? I ask because I honestly don't know. Even if they could get one, couldn't WVU go to a higher court and have a decent shot at getting it vacated? These things get sticky because the judges making these decisions are usually politically appointed (not to impugn any judges out there).

I could also see a judge stating that 9 months is plenty of time to replace WVU on the schedules of teams since it happens all the time that games are dropped and replaced within the same calendar year.

The TRO is just what it describes - an interlocutory or temporary ruling - pending the final order on the request for a restraining order