Reports: West Virginia, Big East and Big 12 agree to allow move

It appears the legal action between the Big East Conference and West Virginia over the Mountaineers move to the Big East is over.

According to multiple reports, West Virginia is agreeing to pay the Big East $11 million to leave this summer. In addition, the Big East will get another $9 million from the Big 12 to facilitate the move, with the money coming from Missouri and Texas A&M's move to the SEC.

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Here's the original story on this from the Charleston Daily-Mail RIGHT HERE

Well...quite honestly, the big winner here is the Big East. Not only do they get $20 million that they didn't have, they've already replaced West Virginia. Keeping them would have amounted to holding them hostage. With the additions of UCF, Navy, Memphis, Boise State and others, the Big East really doesn't need the Mountaineers anymore.

The move also allows the Big 12 to take a deep breath. There was a lot of concern about how the conference was going to do its schedule. It puts the league at 9 teams after the departure of Missouri and Texas A&M and while that is not ideal, it gets them closer to the 10 teams they desire than they were just yesterday.

And oh...by the way, the Big 12 is set to release its football schedule for the upcoming season...this afternoon (Friday).