BYU Goes Independent in Football

I’m unsure as to why the WAC would help BYU out, but BYU may not need them.
 
BYU absolutely can make the independent move work given how far along and established BYUtv is.
 
They’re already carrying coaching shows, classic BYU football games, you can watch all of last seasons football games online for free, and they carry basketball/baseball etc.
 
They can play a national slate of opponents with some regional anchoring not unlike what Notre Dame does now and I’m fairly certain they’d see their revenues double at minimum.

It will be interesting to see how the BCS reacts to this news. Does BYU get an AQ to BCS bowls, like Notre Dame. If so, does it portend a future where other schools see less value in conference affiliation for football? If so, how does college football develop from that point?

If the BCS locks out BYU, does BYU have the law on their side to bring suit against the BCS considering their deal with Notre Dame?

I have no answers but I do have questions.

plus their fan base is huge. Also, the general public would probably hold them in near the same esteem as Notre Dame…I mean, surely the masses wouldn’t judge polygamy as being any worse the pedophilia, right? Hell most guys dream of polygamy…well at least the consummation part, not necessarily the part where you have to deal with two wives.

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I’m also sure that BYU can double their revenue, but it still might not be enough to counter Utah’s move to the Pac-10. It will also be interesting to see if they can beguile anyone of value to come up to the high altitude of Salt Lake City and play them in November.

“It will also be interesting to see if they can beguile anyone of value to come up to the high altitude of Salt Lake City and play them in November.”

Since they play in Provo, it’s unlikely they’ll beguile anyone to come up to Salt Lake City. That’s like the Horns trying to draw an opponent to Waco.

And the elevation in Provo is only 4500 feet, not sea level but not like trying to play the Bolivian national team in La Paz.. What are you, some kind of pansy?

I’m guessing that BYU will get a deal similar to Navy and army and NOT the same deal as Notre Dame.

So yeah, they’ll be raking in money… but they’ll never make a BCS game unless they go undefeated… and even then it wouldn’t be as an automatic unless they are #1 or #2.

Methinks they’d like the guaranteed auto bid and the security of being in a conference… Just not the MWC which has no automatic bid and only gives you 2 mil a year in revenue.

Wow. Just a year ago, there was talk of the MW taking the Big East’s spot. Now, they have added Boise State and lost Utah and BYU. It’s a net step back, for sure.

Yup. Crazy happenings.

UPDATED….Nevada and Fresno join Mountain West.

http://boomerandsooner.fantake.com/2010/08/18/byu-going-indie/

More like Georgetown. Provo is a suburb of Salt Lake City.

BYU exit not yet a certainty. They may stay and add Houston if the money can be improved the way Texas pulled it off. BYU has long tried to bulk up the conference with schools like Fresno and Boise, only to be routinely outvoted. There is talk that ESPN is trying to work a deal with an expanded MWC.

first off, no one puts byu in a corner

Second, if we could get BYU in the Big 12 with Notre Dame to replace CU and UNL… we could make a Saints (BYU, NDU, Baylor, three other teams that don’t make a shit – call it Mizzou, KU, and ISU) division and a Sinners division (KState for general lack of scruples, OU & A&M for cheating, OSU for giving us Garth fing Brooks, Tech and Texas for a generally morally casual attitude). How cool would that be…

At the end of 2009, the MWC had an average Sagarin of 70.92, and an average home attendance of 33.2K. Losing BYU and Utah, and adding BSU gives them an average Sagarin of 71.8 and an average attendance of 28K. Addung Fresno and Nevada (and it must overjoy UNLV to add them) gives them an average Sagarin of 71 and an average attendance of 27.6K.

I think Gregory will be watching BYU’s foray closely. If the Big 10 won’t work out and if A&M dynomite’s the Big 12-2, you guys may see independence as a route to try.

And they say here it’s a done deal.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/50131959-88/byu-football-conference-wednesday.html.csp

And two wives I could deal with. The two mother in laws? There’s the rub….

BYU will not get an automatic bid to a BCS game similar to Notre Dame. Notre Dame has the benefit of history on it’s side, they’ve always been independent and they wield a lot of influence in college football, particularly back east. And obviously with their network.

 BYU on the other hand is located in sparsely populated Utah. They didn’t even have enough power or popularity to get a PAC-10 or Big 12 invite. Hence they’re independent status. Notre Dame will lose they’re automatic bid before the BCS powers give out another one.

Will it work? I don’t know, but I agree with Srrr 50 who’s going to agree to play BYU in Salt Lake City in November? They are going to have a hell of a time scheduling. I don’t believe they have the kind of attendance that would allow them to drop several million dollars on a team as an incentive.

I don’t see us going independent though, our other sports would suffer tremendously unless we could somehow get an agreement from the big 12 to allow our other sports to continue to play in the league. I don’t think Belmont would ever accept sending our non revenue sports to the MAC or a similar conference.

Ag, why do the Aggies have the power to blow up the B12?

By leaving for the SEC, of ourse….

So? OU is the key, not the Aggies.

So what, now TCU will only get to play Utah and bitch about being left out of the BCS?

Only an Aggie would think the Aggies are that important. I want what he’s smoking.

Looks like the MWC has invited FSU and Nevada to the conference so that makes BYU sending their other sports teams to a conference that will not have an NCAA blessing, takes at least 8 univ. to be a conference according to the NCAA rules, how what for BYU, the WAC will be a couple of steps below C-USA.

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