The West Coast Conference has scheduled a board meeting for Thursday, and WCC officials said the vote will likely add the two schools in most sports other than football for the 2024-25 school year. The Athletic. If the vote is successful, the WCC will become the temporary home for most of Oregon and Washington’s sports while the two remaining schools in the Pac-12 continue to make plans for their futures.
Starting in the 2024-25 school year, both schools will participate in all WCC-sponsored sports, except baseball, as associate members who can participate in conference tournaments. According to WCC officials, it is not yet clear what the two teams will do going forward, but it appears that there is still an option to join the WCC. Schools may also choose to play independently. Oregon State, a College World Series regular, will be able to assemble a strong national schedule for the 2025 spring baseball season.
On Dec. 1, the two schools signed a one-year scheduling agreement with the Mountain West for the 2024 football season, under which each Mountain West school will play seven conference games and one game against either OSU or WSU. However, these matches will not be counted as matches. Mountain west standings. Oregon State and Washington State will each play three Mountain West games at home and three on the road. Games against OSU and WSU will not count toward the conference standings, and neither Pac-12 school will be eligible to play in the Mountain West title game.The two schools pay about $14 million to the conference, league officials said. The Athletic.
Oregon and Washington State have spent the last few months figuring out their next move after the Pac-12 collapse, with 10 members set to leave for the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC in 2024. There is. Additionally, the school is currently in the midst of ongoing legal proceedings. The battle for control of the Pac-12 Board of Governors and control of league assets could total hundreds of millions of dollars.
Last week, the Washington Supreme Court refused to hear the University of Washington and Pac-12’s appeal, allowing Oregon and Washington State to control the league until a trial or settlement is reached. Both schools believe there is a path forward to regain control of the league’s assets and its governance and rebuild and backfill the Pac-12 Conference in the future. NCAA rules allow both schools to operate as two-member conferences for a two-year transition period before returning to a minimum of eight members.
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