looking backward is much easier--back then, concerns about losing ESPN contract,

Oct 30, 2014
10:04:42am

Scooter

a good faith relationship with the WCC--if the big 12 blew up, it is hard to say that those things could have been easily restored. It was a definite risk--assuming the options was really ever on the table, which I doubt.

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More Bowlsby comments on TCU, LHN etc.

Everymancoug

10/29/14 10:25pm

Short of disbanding BYU football, I think we are in about as bad of a place as

UNLVcougar

10/29/14 10:36pm

TNT fears the future. Like Sarah Connor

TNT

10/29/14 10:46pm

That makes it sound like we will never get in.

dodgersjazzcougs

10/30/14 12:40am

He said the moves available right now would be teams from "secondary"

Countcougula

10/30/14 1:31am

That's how I read it, too.

squidmark

10/30/14 9:07am

BYU saw inordinate risk in possibility of joining B12 that appeared it might be

MatthiasG

10/30/14 3:20am

Nice Post. Fair Commentary

cajuncoug

10/30/14 7:49am

RE: Nice Post. Fair Commentary

Ragid1

10/30/14 8:20am

Our issues now are Sunday play and geography - not wins

johnnybyu

10/30/14 9:35am

exactly if it weren't for whose we would be in

Ragid1

10/30/14 11:55am

I disagree. What other conference were we hoping for?

Jacksonian76

10/30/14 9:37am

Another Fair Point

cajuncoug

10/30/14 12:59pm

You might be right. But "sparing" you all the facts makes argument tough.

CosmoK

10/30/14 8:43am

Do you have a link to where the Big 12 said there were never discussions?

Josef K

10/30/14 9:32am

I was clear why that statement doesn't mean anything, if you

MatthiasG

10/30/14 9:48pm

That was one situation where Cougarboard had it right.

Josef K

10/30/14 9:12am

Agreed the trend in college football was not to play difficult ooc road games.

johnnybyu

10/30/14 9:40am

Terrible decision. Go to Big 12, and if it blows up, go Indy or back to MWC.

VenetianCougar

10/30/14 9:17am

looking backward is much easier--back then, concerns about losing ESPN contract,

Scooter

10/30/14 10:04am

It was obvious at the time that taking a chance on an unstable B12 was worth it

pgbyufan

10/30/14 10:47am

Absolutely agree

VenetianCougar

10/30/14 12:27pm

You are simply speculating on how things could have gone.Not really that obvious

Scooter

10/30/14 3:12pm

That's bologna IMO. I said it at the time and I continue to say it...

swingcat

10/31/14 1:49am

yes. Indy or MWC was worst case back up.

VenetianCougar

10/31/14 4:39am

Sorry but how many times does it need to be said that the Big 12 never / never

Cougarpride

10/30/14 3:46pm

I was merely commenting on the the premise of the previous post.

VenetianCougar

10/30/14 11:23pm

How many times does it need to be said that an invite is not the point

Josef K

10/31/14 8:47am

Sunday Play

Cougarpride

10/31/14 9:17am

Spot on BYU should have seen the opportunity with an unstable big 12 instead of

johnnybyu

10/30/14 9:29am

Your commentis made with the benefit of hindsight. When surveying the landscape

PhilPete

10/30/14 12:43pm

BYU to B12 was never an option unless it was willing to abandon "no Sunday rule"

zia cougar

10/30/14 4:03pm

Don't have links handy, but wasn't there several comments from various sources

MatthiasG

10/31/14 12:10am

According to folks in the OSU AD's office, it was a major sticking point not

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