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Jan 28, 2020
12:49:08pm
byusage All-American
BYU's move to Independence and the differing reactions from fans about
Independence reminds me a bit of the book "Who Moved My Cheese?"

For those who haven't read it, it is a motivational business fable about some mice and humans who find a source of cheese and get into a routine eating that cheese daily. Then suddenly the cheese is gone.

The mice anticipated the day the cheese would be gone and quickly began searching for new cheese. The humans get angry about the unfairness of the situation and instead of moving on to finding new cheese, wallow in the disappointment that the cheese and the comfort of old routines is gone. Eventually, one of the humans find new cheese and it is different, but is what he needs. The other human is so stuck on the comfortable routines of the past, that he goes without cheese because he doesn't want different cheese.

TRANSLATION: BYU anticipated the change in the college football landscape and made a change to prevent getting left behind.

For those pining for a conference, any conference, you do realize that if BYU had remained in the MWC, there would probably be a greater volume of discontent fans? The top LDS talent would still go to P5 teams.

The problem is the gap between G5 and P5 has widened. It would be great to be in a conference race, but that would further damage the BYU brand. In addition, the AAC is not an option due to distance and IT WILL NEVER BE A P5 CONFERENCE EVER. Dream on.

The biggest problem is beating G5 teams that BYU should beat. If BYU were in a conference losing to the same teams, they would be playing for 4th or 5th in a crappy conference. There would still be complaining and it would probably be worse.

BYU needs to make the most of where they are now until the landscape changes again. Until then, I am not looking back, but forward.
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