Thank you for your insights Refugee. I found some info about Ricks College and thought some might find it interesting.

In 1914 Hyrum Manwaring was an English teacher at BYU when he was called to go to teach at Ricks College. When he got there (in March) the campus left him "stunned, bewildered, and seriously disappointed." If you've ever experienced winter in Rexburg you'll understand. He and his wife, Bessie went up on the hill overlooking Rexburg. You can imagine how he must have felt, but then they were given a vision where they were permitted to see Ricks, 100 years in the future.

“In the mid summer of 2014, a hundred years had passed since I first stood on the Rexburg hill and shed bitter tears at what I saw; and then caught the vision of what might come to pass through the foresight and sincere efforts of energetic and determined men and women. …

“At the sun set of evening we overlooked the gilded scenes of Ricks College and Rexburg city. All that we had dreamed, and more, of their development had taken place. It was impossible fifty years before to even dream of what two or three generations of young men and women could do toward the further development of the Ricks College campus, and the city of Rexburg. It was all so substantial and beautiful to look upon!

“All we could do was to pronounce it all wonderful and good, and pray that their futures would be still greater and grander.” (From Memoirs of President Hyrum Manwaring, quoted in Ricks College: A Struggle for Survival by Jerry C. Roundy; Ricks College Press, 1976, p. 292.)

Manwaring would later become the president of Ricks College.

I love BYU football, and losing Ricks College football has been hard, but I have to believe that God know what is best for all of His children.