Noticed your very last line: edit: I don't have a strong opinion of which way BYU should go. Simply that they need to do one or the other.

You wouldn't of opined if you didn't have a strong opinion, so fine that you posted. What I find interesting about that though, is you come here to Cougarboard to post what an Aggie perception of the future of BYU football is to be. I think a post like yours would be better placed on the Aggie board, if there is one, don't know. 

To your 2nd point, BYU has to do one or the other...If you mean going back to G5 money or lack thereof, then the answer is BYU made their choice in 2011 to break away from G5. Decision to jump to independence so that all monies brought into football stays at BYU. Future is P5 money, pure and simple so that all BYU sports can be self sustaining. That takes a lot of money and there is more money in P5 progams than in G5 programs.