interested in, the first conference had two institutions that said they would never accept byu into their conference as long as byu was associated with the lds church. This of course sounded like the pac10. From what I've read on cougarboard, back then we needed a 100% vote to get into the pac conference.
The second conference said that they would only take us if byu allowed the spring sports to participate on Sundays when need be. This of course sounded like the big12.