I think you are right. That and the unknown B12 issues at the time

Jul 14, 2018
4:29:51pm

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but they should have know you get one shot at the brass ring. IMO they treated it like the MWC which it was not. They should have got some guidance from ESPN first.

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Just thinking about when Utah and TCU were added to P5 conferences

BradioHead

7/13/18 1:58pm

There's a lot of ambiguity of what our chances really were in 2010. Was BYU

Windward_Coug

7/13/18 2:04pm

It isn't an AD failure, it is a President's Office and BOT failure

Nat Gas Man

7/13/18 2:05pm

Right, but will we ever get the real story? 2010 looks like it was our best

Windward_Coug

7/13/18 2:08pm

I for one don't think the real story will ever come out, because it would

Nat Gas Man

7/13/18 2:11pm

Agreed.... I'm afraid a certain character flaw had a negative trickle down effect

CLCougar

7/13/18 2:23pm

From what I understand Worthen was heavily involved in the 2010 flop

I'mBatman

7/13/18 2:58pm

Agree. The 247 Sports article highlights just how important

Everyman

7/13/18 2:30pm

Reading between the lines in that story, I dont think there is anything that the BOT or AD could have done differently

cheezedawg

7/13/18 2:57pm

There were lots of leaks about BYU's lawyers being pieces of work, requiring all sorts of crap.

mulletino

7/13/18 2:06pm

No humility

Nat Gas Man

7/13/18 2:07pm

Or maybe just an over-correction from the Mtn fiasco?

antiyewt

7/14/18 4:07pm

I think you are right. That and the unknown B12 issues at the time

Nat Gas Man

7/14/18 4:29pm

They didn't. They were never close in 2010.

molodyets

7/13/18 2:08pm

Hard to say.

mulletino

7/13/18 2:08pm

That’s a very hard stance to take considering byu was mentioned as the top target by ESPN and other

Zach Morris

7/13/18 2:59pm

Those comments came from the Big East

Everyman

7/13/18 2:21pm

^^^ This

fan_byu

7/13/18 2:35pm

Utah was willing to take no $ the first year, 50% the 2nd and 75% the third.

JasonJDelmonico

7/13/18 2:23pm

RE: Utah was willing to take no $ the first year, 50% the 2nd and 75% the third.

SCcoug

7/13/18 2:39pm

Ironically one of those lawyers is now president of BYU

Jersey hunter

7/13/18 2:47pm

Was Worthen really working on the negotiations?

Goliath

7/13/18 4:13pm

No.

NewMexiCoug

7/13/18 8:19pm

It wasn’t necessarily tv reassurances

I'mBatman

7/13/18 3:07pm

That’s the common theme adopted by the three

Everyman

7/13/18 3:12pm

Hence BYU’s failure.

Zach Morris

7/13/18 3:25pm

We were too used to being the top dog in conference, couldn't

CLCougar

7/13/18 3:36pm

Many fans could. CB was loaded with posters who knew what was on the line. And then

Zach Morris

7/13/18 4:26pm

RE this thread: fascinating how rumor evolves into folklore evolves into myth.

panguitch

7/13/18 11:19pm

If there was ever a verbal offer to BYU

BradioHead

7/13/18 2:20pm

We were just waiting for our Boaz

Goliath

7/13/18 2:31pm

Teams joining new conferences always phase in their share.

SCcoug

7/13/18 2:38pm

That’s the practice now, but I don’t think it was common

Everyman

7/14/18 7:29am

Nebraska and other new B1G schools took 6 years to phase into a full sh.

SCcoug

7/14/18 9:53am

The Big12 conference was on life support

I'mBatman

7/13/18 3:10pm

Even without taking TV $$ in the first year Utah made more money in their first

wcj99

7/13/18 4:01pm

Annual financial report indicates they received $5.2M.

Everyman

7/13/18 4:35pm

BYU was at the table...

Coug

7/13/18 3:24pm

That’s the story we here from time to time...the Big 12 was unstable so BYU didn’t make the jump...

Bonoman

7/13/18 11:55pm

Interesting of note in the article

BradioHead

7/13/18 2:36pm

Yes, there were some fortunes of timing...

Tokolosh

7/13/18 2:41pm

Can't help but agree with this. Also feel they were unshackled and

CLCougar

7/13/18 2:48pm

I mentioned that they had to convince the pac 12 to add them

BradioHead

7/13/18 2:53pm

Utah had also won a BCS game and was on the rise along with TCU...

Bonoman

7/13/18 3:09pm

And both Utah and TCU had substantially better Presidents who

CLCougar

7/13/18 3:34pm

We could let our drug/dui/women maltreatment players get away with it I suppose

Y4LYFE

7/13/18 3:06pm

How about not going into the 2011 B12 expansion like you are the big dog,

blackshirts

7/13/18 9:21pm

BYU declined the Big 12’s invite in ‘11. Big mistake.

Chet Donnelly

7/13/18 11:19pm

Not a big mistake... The program death mistake!! The legacy of TH.

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