Stanford: crazy academic credentials for athletes. Much higher than BYU.
TCU: teeny Christian school in Podunk Texas.
Baylor: teeny Baptist school in Waco, Texas that bans dancing.
ND: ok, probably not that many limitations.

But let's get real. BYU has many built in advantages that others don't. For starters, it's the lone lds school. We get kids all the time who, by all rights, should be elsewhere. But they're Mormon and they want to come to byu for school.

Sure, the honor code is different. Sure, byu is in Provo, Utah. But is it really a cap on our ability to compete? Did byu not win an NC with the honor code in place?

Stop building up excuses for the real problem. embrace the culture of byu and succeed within that culture.