I bet if BYU would have come into the WCC and dump trucked the Zags and St. Mary's like we all thought we would...Gonzaga would be in no position to leave.
What BYU did was elevate and validate Gonzagas value while gutting our own because we cant beat them.
I'm sure Tom's plan, along with Bronco and Rose, was to go Indy in football, schedule big time programs and kick their trash.
Move in to the WCC and blow that conference up and take names over pretenders Gonzaga and St. Mary's.
Good plan. Turns out BYU is a paper tiger and we've been exposed terribly.
Someone forgot to tell our coaches to win. It's the teams inability to win is the problem. If that plan works... we are probably in the BXII right now.
He did his part.