Conferences Settle Legal Dispute to Avoid Getting ‘Tied Up in the Courts’

The remaining six presidents in the Western Athletic Conference have reached an agreement with their counterparts at Fresno State University and the University of Nevada, which will delay the departure of those two schools from the WAC to the Mountain West Conference.   Under the settlement, the two schools will wait until the 2012 season to leave for the Mountain West, and in return only pay a fraction of the exit fee of $5 million that the WAC had insisted upon.   The WAC filed its l