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BYU independent for football?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Stitch, Aug 18, 2010.

  1. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Well if they're suddenly cool with no football, gonzaga would be a good get.
     
  2. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Reports out of Fresno and Reno say both schools will accept the invites, and they didn't sign the buyout agreement.
     
  3. Jersey_Guy

    Jersey_Guy Active Member

    The Mountain West just checked BYU hard and probably destroyed the WAC in the process.

    BYU is nuts IMO. They will never be able to assemble enough of a schedule to make a run at the BCS and will struggle to attract any bowl ties. I predict they'll go crawling back to the WAC within 5 years if they leave - and probably will be laughed off at that point as revenge.
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Shit just got real.
     
  5. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    It's now official. Nevada and Fresno State to the MWC. Karl Benson is rolling around in his bed and sucking his thumb and doesn't know why.

    Dan Wetzel has a good read over on Yahoo re: BYU. The folks in Provo seem to think they can become the Mormon Notre Dame by going indie, shuffling all other sport to the WAC and putting their football games on BYU-TV. Talk about faith ...
     
  6. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    They probably can't be the Mormon Notre Dame, but they should make more TV money than the $2 mil/year they're getting out of the MWC deal. A number that looks awfully paltry when Utah's looking at $15 mil/year from the Pac 10.

    The ESPN story has BYU possibly linking up with the West Coast Conference if the WAC is left with six teams. That might actually be better for them, at least in basketball.
     
  7. WBarnhouse

    WBarnhouse Member

    NCAA rules say you've got to have at least 8 teams to be a recognized as a conference.
     
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    True. I just don't know what the WAC's possibilities are for football. Raid the Big Sky, Great West of Missouri Valley? Stephen Tsai mentioned on his Star-Advertiser blog looking at Texas State as a means of reaching out to La. Tech. If the economy were better, I'd say the Warriors were the next best candidate to jump ship.
     
  9. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Montana could own the WAC in football if they moved up.
     
  10. Roscablo

    Roscablo Well-Known Member

    The $2 million a year may not seem like a lot, and in the big-time college football world it's not, but what non-BCS conference team gets more? The fact is right now BYU is in a non-BCS conference. Utah out of the luck of the draw moved up to a BCS conference thus their money was greatly increased. It certainly has room for improvement, but as it stands the MWC has the best TV deal of any non-BCS conference. BYU wants Utah money it needs to find a BCS conference, which to this point it hasn't been able to do.
     
  11. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I guess it's also possible that BYU has no intention of leaving and this was all just a ploy to smoke out Nevada and Fresno so they would jump leagues.
     
  12. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    BYU can't make any money off of its own TV network because no provider pays to carry it. But BYU could get better exposure on ESPN, especially on Thursday nights, that would make up for any MWC deal.

    Comments on all of these stories are always hilarious. All the citizen pundits tend to think the MWC will suddenly make millions and millions as a result of adding Fresno and Reno to the TV footprint.
     
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