football recruiting than anything else.
By proving that we are an inferior program, they have made it very difficult for us to attract the best LDS athletes.
It used to be that BYU was always one or two on the list of desired schools for that group, with Utah being at the bottom.
Now we are at the bottom of the list, if we make it at all. The best LDS athletes are choosing between Stanford or Utah.
If we had not renewed that series, we could have at least been able to argue the point in some the years since leaving the MWC. Now there is no debate. The truth is obvious.