... will be retained by the conference to loan to WVU to help it buyout it's Big East membership.
The plus for that is everything I have read states that the Big 12 help to WVU will be a loan, so KU will eventually get it's share of the $$$ that are loaned to WVU.
Consider it an investment for getting WVU on board for the fall, eliminating the media contract issues related to # of conference members and making the conference incrementally better in football and hoops.
"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" -- Bob DylanTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain, "Innocents Abroad""Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum... Still it's a real good bet the best is yet to come." song sung by Sheahon Zenger, 2011-12-09.