“It didn’t work out for BYU when they tried it, but BYU isn’t Stanford. Stanford is heads and shoulders above BYU from an academic standpoint and has a lot more resources and money to pull off a move to being independent.”

Seems like it might work out just fine for BYU. It got us into the Big 12 which was the real plan all along. As far as academics, that is just comical. Stanford seems to take a lot of BYU undergrads in its grad programs. I know they are referring to research, and they are right in that regard, but BYU does not have stupid students which is how the quote came off.