Report: Oregon St., Washington St. talk Mountain West scheduling

Yahoo Sports is reporting that Oregon State and Washington State, the last two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, have been in talks with Mountain West Conference officials about scheduling games.
Oregon State and Washington State are expected to operate as a two-school Pac-12 Conference next year, the only remaining schools after several programs jumped ship.
If they schedule games with the Mountain West, that could lead to a partnership or merger between the two conferences.
Yahoo's Ross Dellenger reports that Mountain West administrators are reviewing proposals and the conference's presidents are expected to give their feedback soon.
The league has proposed a wide variety of models, including having Oregon State and Washington State each playing eight Mountain West opponents in 2024. Another has them playing seven. One has their games counting toward conference records; another has them as non-conference matchups.
Yahoo says that any scheduling alliance is likely to feature a compensation package and/or a long-term commitment from Oregon State and Washington State to the Mountain West, built around the possibility of eventual full membership.
Meanwhile, both Oregon State and Washington State have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in their court battle against the 10 outgoing Pac-12 schools and commissioner George Kliavkoff.
The motion, filed Wednesday morning in Whitman County (Washington) Superior Court, seeks an order stipulating that Washington State and Oregon State be the only voting members of the Pac-12 board of directors until a final judgment in the case is rendered.
The Yahoo story says that, as part of the motion, the two schools produced dozens of pages of documents through discovery that support their claim that members who have withdrawn from the league lose their voting representation on the board. The claim, at the center of the case, is imperative to control of what is believed to be more than $100 million in assets coming to the conference.
From Yahoo: "In its motion, Oregon State and Washington State express fear that the 10 outgoing members, if allowed onto the board, could 'out-vote' the two to dissolve the league and redistribute the millions in assets to themselves. The assets include revenue from NCAA tournament units (at least $50 million), the Rose Bowl contract (estimated at $80 million) and the value of the Pac-12 Network and its recently renovated studio."