Fate of Apple Cup still up in air as WSU deals with fallout from UW’s Pac-12 exit

The tension is still evident at the Washington State University Athletic Department after the University of Washington announced last week that it would be going to the Big 10.

The move has left WSU in what remains of the Pac-12, painting an uncertain future for their relationship with their biggest in-state rival. And the school’s athletic director Pat Chun did not mince words when talking about the impact on the Cougs.

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“The reality is the decision by one school in our state negatively impacts the school in the other part of the state, and that’s just the reality of what happened last Friday,” he told KIRO 7, describing the conversation UW had with him prior to their decision to leave the Pac-12 as “brief.”

That said, Chun also noted that his job “isn’t to sit here and well on what just happened.”