{"id":659800,"date":"2026-05-23T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659800\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:34:15","slug":"canzano-mountain-west-got-less-than-half-from-pac-12-in-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659800\/","title":{"rendered":"Canzano: Mountain West got &#8220;less than half&#8221; from Pac-12 in settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!-4dv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe765f670-48e8-49b3-9899-a0213e4632ea_3000x1055.heic\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e765f670-48e8-49b3-9899-a0213e4632ea_3000.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"421.97802197802196\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e765f670-48e8-49b3-9899-a0213e4632ea_3000x1055.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:512,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:323416,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.johncanzano.com\/i\/198428641?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe765f670-48e8-49b3-9899-a0213e4632ea_3000x1055.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-large\"\/><\/a>The Pac-12 and Mountain West reached a settlement agreement this week.<\/p>\n<p>Seven schools in the new Pac-12 will pay roughly equal shares of the settlement reached earlier this week with the Mountain West Conference, I\u2019ve learned.<\/p>\n<p>Two lawsuits. <\/p>\n<p>A combined settlement.<\/p>\n<p>How big is the pile of cash?<\/p>\n<p>The five departing members of the MW \u2014 plus Oregon State and Washington State \u2014 are on the hook for a payout that landed at \u201cless than half\u201d of the $155 million total the MW sought, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>Will that windfall be enough to keep UNLV and Air Force happy in the MW? What role did a discovery hearing play in the timing of the settlement? And why didn\u2019t the rival conferences settle a year ago when a retired federal judge conducted joint mediation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pac-12 and Mountain West reached a settlement agreement this week. Seven schools in the new Pac-12 will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-659800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}