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BYU To Bolt From The MWC Before Sept 1st ??
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Buffsoldier
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But what does Chip Brown have to say about this?
I keed, I keed.
Well, if BYU would get off their high horse about scheduling anything on Sundays, they might, MIGHT, I say, have gotten the nod.
I keed, I keed.
Well, if BYU would get off their high horse about scheduling anything on Sundays, they might, MIGHT, I say, have gotten the nod.
BYU would be crazy to not do this. While scheduling will be difficult for the first few years, it will get somewhat easier as time goes on. All they gain from MWC is scheduling. Otherwise they are being held back.
Absent the religious aspect, PAC 10 probably would have taken BYU over Utah.
Absent the religious aspect, PAC 10 probably would have taken BYU over Utah.
I'm not so sure. It also needs approval from the university presidents and BYU's a tough pill to swallow. Lack of graduate programs and restrictions on academic freedom for professors. Add in the political aspect after the LDS church led the Prop 8 charge in California and I think BYU is a non-starter for Pac discussions no matter how strong its sports teams may be.
I agree with you. That is what I meant by absent the religious aspect (I was basically paraphrasing your reasons). My point was more that BYU is a storied program and probably carries the Utah TV market better than Utah. Therefore if they didn't have all their funky baggage it is a more desirable program.
Yeah, I figured. I just didn't want to leave it out there because I've seen too many LDS guys gloss over all that stuff and boil it down to "they're discriminating against us due to our religion".
I'm not so sure that they feel the MWC will unravel, I think that they feel the need to throw a counterpunch to Utah's move to the big boys table. I would assume that the MWC would have no interest in letting them go indy in football, but stay in the rest of the sports - hence the "move" back to the WAC. BYU has always considered themselves different. This is a way for them to break out of the MWC doldrums in football, and still protect the other sports by being in a conference.
I would guess that the Air Force might ... :smile2:
Confirmation that this is moving forward unless the LDS blocks it, the MWC offers a Texas-like deal to BYU on tv rights, or BYU simply gets cold feet. Being treated like Notre Dame for BCS bowl automatic qualification is not in the cards and not a requirement for BYU to make this move.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5473151
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5473151
Ramnation is pretty fun today.
Interesting thread on the top about how the Cal-State system is pushing to get them all together. This would push San Diego State to join Fresno State and San Jose State in the WAC. Makes sense, actually.
The WAC should trade the MWC Louisiana Tech for SDSU.
That it is.
In the end, will this really have a big detrimental effect on CSU football, though? Their TV deal sucks ass right now, so it's not like they will lose a lot of money there. Nobody comes to see their games now, so will that really change?
I think Fairchild's been getting a recruiting bump by telling prospects that the MWC is on track for BCS status. It's probably a line that has helped their fundraising efforts with boosters, too. That dies on the vine. Otherwise, I'm not sure it's a big deal for them.
You never know how this crap will shake out in the end. I suppose there is some chance they could end up in Big XII lite at some point. In the long run this may be good for CSU.
We'll see. I just think it is so funny that they were so sure the MWC would be BCS soon and were actually ripping CU's choice to move to the Pac-10. Sucks to have options I guess.
I doubt CSU ends up in the B12, although you never know what will happen a few years down the road when (not if, IMO) the Tejas-10 conference implodes. All it takes is one more school leaving to either kill or have to add members to that conference.
That's why I'm enjoying this now. They were brutal about CU going to the P10. I am laughing at them now. Maybe the WAC will take them back? :rofl2:
I know that Desert News is pretty much a BYU mouthpiece, but I found this interesting:
Boise State, according to reports in Idaho, has a no-penalty clause that would allow it to back out of joining the Mountain West. This would leave the WAC with nine football schools while bumping the league up to 10 schools for other sports.
Furthermore, if the WAC decided it wanted to expand to 12 teams, a USU source said, there are a few MWC teams that would be happy to join BYU in a move back to the WAC, with the Mountain West a suddenly unstable conference.
If more than BYU and Boise State were to make a move to the WAC, the Mountain West might be crippled in many ways and be forced to seek schools from Conference USA to fill the unexpected empty spots around the conference table.
Whole article is worth a read
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I'm not even trying to get under their skin and they all hate me today. :rofl:
What are some good threads to read?
Done deal: According to the SL Tribune (the non-LDS paper) http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/50131959-88/byu-football-television-conference.html.csp
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What does the term "ramdog" mean. Cause that one dude wants to do it in your backseat.