I am grateful that either Tom Holmoe or the West Coast Conference are interested in our thoughts about the conference. I am also grateful that the WCC allowed or invited us to join their conference in all sports when BYU chose independence for football. Having freely expressed my thoughts on the evaluation I found that I really felt the following:
1. The WCC, from merely an athletic standpoint, brings no prestige or significant recognition for being in the league.
2. The WCC, outside of Gonzaga and St. Marys, does not garner national recognition for having a tough league schedule.
3. When BYU women won the league title in soccer, and were such a highly ranked team, they still got paired in a poor seeding with Stanford, and have rarely gained any better seeding for winning the league.
4. Even IF BYU men's basketball won the WCC tournament and the NCAA berth, they would still have a poor seeding, even though part of that is deserved, they do not get the recognition as a Mid-major, even though they are recognized as P5 in football.
5. BYU gains nothing for winning games in basketball against anyone other than the Zags and Gaels, and so every time they play their SOS usually takes a hit. I don't believe either that the WCC basketball teams are going to drastically improve and gain national recognition, especially when Gonzaga, the king of the hill, is beating SD by 58 points. Reminds me of BYU in the old WAC. Recognition for BYU but lack of respect for WAC.
6. BYU is very competitive in other Olympic sports, but those are not revenue-generating other than Men's Volleyball, and maybe Women's volleyball and soccer.
7. The Marriott Center only averages about 14,500 because the WCC teams really don't generate much interest, and so the fan base is just faithful. Why do we usually have a stronger showing than the other teams when we are away? Because our fan base is national.

Okay, enough of what I expressed, and I recognize I don't have any specific answer, so we continue with business as usual unless TH comes up with some idea for creation of a new competitive league, or we get an invite to the Big 12 or Pac 12, but I don't believe that will happen until the next round of TV renewals. As I responded on the survey, these schools may be beautiful, geographically advantageous universities, with strong academic recognition, but that doesn't bring recognition in the athletic world, and the WCC is no Ivy League or Big East