We have been in this position exactly 3x in the last 36 years (1984, 1996, 2001) and we are bungling our shot and letting it slip away. The statement needed to be much more direct to what the national media was saying and specifically speak to the fact that BYU wants to play but was unwilling to be the backup plan for a P12 game. Give us a guaranteed game and it's done, we are on a plane. That simple. P12 has now put us in the corner on the day of the first CFP polls being released and it's not a good look. Who cares what really happened behind closed doors. We need to manage the PERCEIVED REALITY of what happened. We need a more specific statement and cosmo willing...an announcement with a needle moving game, possibly 2.