Saturday night saw the likely demise of the proposed TIF, a rather shameful display of pettiness and politicking that eventually ended with many believing the legislative process had turned its back on people and places.

I know before we were skeptical about the future of the bill. We thought it was perhaps unusual or desperate to have that one  news conference with the Minor League Baseball officials weeks before Saturday’s disaster. Never did I think that outcome would be the result, though. I mean, it really was a high school civics class come to life … but I didn’t think we’d have high school antics.

The TIF still has an outside chance and legislators will try to convince the governor to either call a special session or expand the already extended session so that the TIF can be revisited, but I’m hearing that’s not likely.

A special session is pricey. An extension would seem redundant. And either way, the issue has to be a sure thing or the governor will look as goofy as this entire situation if he makes a decision and then sees nothing happen to the TIF/magistrate pay equalization. Right now, do you feel confident in a consensus? Not when the House and Senate are messing with one another while they blame one another.

But that’s not the biggest issue, or even the potentially worst, for WVU today.

Late last night, State Attorney General Patrick Morrissey announced he was done with his review of WVU’s RFP process. He’ll have a news conference at 11 a.m. today that will, obviously, send this thing in one direction or another — and those are very different directions.

This is either the end to the review and, one would hope, the guerrilla protest. Or it’s the return to the beginning of the process that started 11 months ago. It’s really hard to overstate the implications of possible outcomes today, much as it’s hard to overlook the timing. WVU is supposed to fulfill a slew of FOIA requests to the town newspaper today. That’s not front-page news now.

But, hey, if Morrissey clears his client of any wrongdoing, then WVU is then able to talk to West Virginia Media and IMG College again and that could get Saturday’s spring game on television for a third straight year.