Re: Brigham Young Cougars
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:07 am
It is amusing to read some of the crap people speculate about. Big 12-3 won't take BYU, BYU would jump at an offer, UT wants a conf championship and does or does not control the conference.
here's my take from a BYU alumn in Austin who follows the two teams closely and hears the talk on the ground.
Texas controls the conference. It wants to stay the big fish in a smaller pond than to move to the PAC 10+2. And it is not about to let go of it's ESPN contract. No way. No how. Problem is it has to figure out how to keep the Big 12 together, main key being the Okies. Okies stay then UT is set. Okies leave and UT is screwed. Period.
so now the Big 12 has offered BYU, but BYU doesn't know if it wants to join a sinking ship. Also, BYU, like UT, doesn't want to guve up it's ESPN contract. Independence has been exactly what BYU wanted the whole time: exposure. The mission of BYU is not that of other colleges. It is to give the Church exposure and show other people what the LDS Church is about: faith in Christ and high moral standards. Period. The President of the Church controls the program and that's what it is about.
The Big 12 not wanting BYU because it isn't a "flagship" state school? Really? Who dreamed up that crap. Talk to me about the flagships of Baylor, Kansas State, Texas Tech. Reality is that BYU brings a quality athletic prpgram that can compete on an even keel with the biggest of the big but without the top recruits. That is reality. It also brings a nationwide audience that fulls stadiums and arenas wherever they go. You just have to deal with that no-Sunday play cuz we're in church rule. But apparently that's not such a big deal to some.
Personally, the only way I want to see BYU join a conference again is if the conferences start turning into the 16-ship nightmares (it is about tradition, right?) that most now speculate about. Why? Because it will be pretty hard to schedule teams when everyone is locked into schedules.
so we'll see. And, yeah, I'm pissed at aTm for running away. So much for history. They are too sore losers that they couldn't get their own deal, and when UT offered to join with aTm to get an ESPN contract along with UT, they said no. When ESPN came knocking with the millions, aTm wanted in after the hard work had been done. They are sore losers.
here's my take from a BYU alumn in Austin who follows the two teams closely and hears the talk on the ground.
Texas controls the conference. It wants to stay the big fish in a smaller pond than to move to the PAC 10+2. And it is not about to let go of it's ESPN contract. No way. No how. Problem is it has to figure out how to keep the Big 12 together, main key being the Okies. Okies stay then UT is set. Okies leave and UT is screwed. Period.
so now the Big 12 has offered BYU, but BYU doesn't know if it wants to join a sinking ship. Also, BYU, like UT, doesn't want to guve up it's ESPN contract. Independence has been exactly what BYU wanted the whole time: exposure. The mission of BYU is not that of other colleges. It is to give the Church exposure and show other people what the LDS Church is about: faith in Christ and high moral standards. Period. The President of the Church controls the program and that's what it is about.
The Big 12 not wanting BYU because it isn't a "flagship" state school? Really? Who dreamed up that crap. Talk to me about the flagships of Baylor, Kansas State, Texas Tech. Reality is that BYU brings a quality athletic prpgram that can compete on an even keel with the biggest of the big but without the top recruits. That is reality. It also brings a nationwide audience that fulls stadiums and arenas wherever they go. You just have to deal with that no-Sunday play cuz we're in church rule. But apparently that's not such a big deal to some.
Personally, the only way I want to see BYU join a conference again is if the conferences start turning into the 16-ship nightmares (it is about tradition, right?) that most now speculate about. Why? Because it will be pretty hard to schedule teams when everyone is locked into schedules.
so we'll see. And, yeah, I'm pissed at aTm for running away. So much for history. They are too sore losers that they couldn't get their own deal, and when UT offered to join with aTm to get an ESPN contract along with UT, they said no. When ESPN came knocking with the millions, aTm wanted in after the hard work had been done. They are sore losers.