Should BYU Be Charged With The Murder Of The Western Athletic Conference?

"felony murder doctrinen. a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the commission of a felony is first degree murder, and all participants in that felony or attempted felony can be charged with and found guilty of murder. A typical example is a robbery involving more than one criminal, in which one of them shoots, beats to death or runs over a store clerk, killing the clerk. Even if the death were accidental, all of the participants can be found guilty of felony murder, including those who did no harm, had no gun, and/or did not intend to hurt anyone. In a bizarre situation, if one of the holdup men or women is killed, his/her fellow robbers can be charged with murder. Source: Law.com"

It is one of those things I haven’t thought about in awhile.  But remember when BYU tried to conspire with Utah State in order to place their non-football sports in the WAC and along with it try to cripple the MWC (via attempting to lure SDSU and UNLV to the WAC as well).  Essentially BYU committed assault (or  battery if the common law is your thing) on the MWC.  The MWC in an attempt to defend itself, invited Nevada and Fresno St.  That action for all intents and purposes killed the WAC.  Sure they survived a year on life support but now that they’ve died, isn’t it time BYU be tried for its crimes?

I think two important questions come out of my silly commentary from above.

1. If BYU simply goes with it’s Indy/WCC route without the Utah St. conspiracy, does the WAC survive?  Are there room for both the WAC and MWC?  Maybe they work out some sort of re-merger instead of the MWC simply raping the WAC.

2. Would BYU do it all differently?  Instead of what looked like panicked move after panicked move when Utah received their Pac-12 invite, knowing what they know, would they have simply sat tight.  If they had simply sat tight, would they be members of the Big-12 today?

Interesting Questions for a Future Day.