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Sep 24, 2017
10:46:57am
mtnKat Contributor
Is this what the end of Independence looks like?
Most all of us would prefer P-5 affiliation if that was an option. When the yewts and TCU helped break up the MWC, I think the right move was for BYU to leave for independence in football. That was and is the easiest path to make a conference change and we hoped that P-5 was at the end of the rainbow.

We may have sabotaged our chances at P-5 affiliation in the first year or so, after our "piece of work" attorney and the powers that be at BYU decided to put the Big-12 on trial, and they in turn decided on TCU over a couple of drinks at a bar. In 2015 and 2016 we thought there was some serious movement in B-12 expansion and it kind of looked like it might happen. But after the ruckus caused by the LBGT mafia and their student council proteges at places as liberal (TIC) as Iowa State and the sudden decision by the Big-12 not to expand, I think for political reasons, that the cause of BYU to one of the P-5's is effectively dead. Val Hale also said as much in his interview with Criddle last week.

If there is no path forward to P-5 inclusion for BYU football, what should be done? Is independence a viable option for the next 25 years? Monetarily, probably. If TV and Radio $'s only provide 8% of our current revenue stream (wherein we already make a nice profit) then getting more $ isn't that critical. If we keep winning at a sufficient clip then that amount of $'s going forward should be doable from ESPN or someone else. We provide a cost-effective content for someone to broadcast. But competitively I am no longer convinced. What can be done? Form a new league (not realistic at this time) or affiliate with the MWC or AAC. That appears to me to be the sum universe of our options. I do not want us to take all sports back to the MWC because of the appearance that leaving was a humbling, bumbling failure and because of animosities generated that are similar to that of a bad divorce. Besides, the venues and teams just do not appeal. That leaves the AAC. I think it would have to be football only. They have some good football programs, and like the MWC, enough beatable ones that we should be bowling most years. They have access to some nice bowls at the top-end, and the bottom end is no worse than most of the bowls we've been to in the last few years (Vegas excluded). Maybe once a decade we get to a NY6 through that. However, I am not convinced that affiliation with even the AAC is a viable option any longer. Presidents there would certainly come under the same political pressures as their peers at P-5 universities. What say ye CB, do you see any real options?
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