The Mountain East’s Successful Summary Judgment Motion Requires Urbana University to Pay an ‘Exit Fee’ to Leave the Conference

By Dr. Robert J. Romano, St. John’s University, Senior Writer On July 26, 2021, the Mountain East Conference (MEC), an NCAA Division II Conference out of Bridgeport, West Virginia, filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia against two of its member institutions, Franklin University and Franklin University — Urbana, LLC, d/b/a Urbana University.[1] As per its complaint, MEC alleges that the two universities breached the terms of the Confe