WAC ready to demand fee

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    Fresno State and Nevada should not expect any parting gifts from the other members of the Western Athletic Conference when the Bulldogs and Wolf Pack leave for the Mountain West.

    WAC commissioner Karl Benson said Thursday that each departing school will have to pay a $5 million fee to his league and wait until 2012 to move after accepting the MWC's invitation and dismantling an agreement the WAC was on the verge of completing with BYU.

    The Cougars were in line to rejoin the WAC in all sports other than football, in which BYU would have become an independent.

    Benson called Fresno State and Nevada's decision "selfish."

    Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5477045
     

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