Washington court puts time out on Pac-12 control

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN

• Staff WriterNov 16, 2023, 04:51 PM ET Close Covers the Pac-12.
• Joined ESPN in 2014.
• Gone To Washington State University.The Washington State Supreme Court released a temporary stay of Tuesday’s preliminary injunction that was set to approve control of the Pac-12 board of directors to Oregon State and Washington State on Monday.The court’s judgment came a day after the University of Washington

, dealing with behalf of the ten schools set to leave the Pac-12 at the end of the scholastic year, filed an emergency situation movement to stay Tuesday’s ruling and extend a short-lived limiting order that had actually remained in location since September. That TRO prevents any board action without consentaneous permission of the 12 present members.Thursday’s procedural judgment was not precisely what Washington asked for, but it does have a similar effect in the short-term as OSU and

WSU will not manage the conference board beginning Monday. Instead, both celebrations have actually been asked to file briefs regarding Washington’s emergency stay demand, with the court requesting for those to be filed by Nov. 28 and a reply by Dec. 8. Editor’s Picks

1 Associated It’s possible that submitting schedule might be expedited.This process is independent from the leaving schools’ intent to appeal Tuesday’s ruling in state Supreme Court and is not an indicator of how the court may view the benefits of the case. It is unclear when that appeal will be filed or how quickly the court will rule on whether to take the case.

“The departing schools are just delaying the unavoidable due to the fact that the remarkable court plainly got it right: Under the bylaws, the Conference’s future need to be decided by the schools that remain, not those that are leaving,” OSU and WSU spokespersons Rob Odom and Phil Weiler stated in a joint statement.Facing unpredictability about the future, OSU and WSU are dealing with strategies to operate the Pac-12 as a two-team conference for perhaps the next 2 seasons, keeping alive the possibility of rebuilding the conference in the future.