At least it’s a fiscally responsible university that’s had athletic and academic success.
There is relative prestige at BYU… sure there’s not a medical school…but I’ve never understood why that mattered as it pertained to athletic conferences.
Certainly these medical/professional schools know the amount of us BYU students, myself included, that got their doctorates and masters at big ten universities… we are making them look good. They are aware as anyone of the quality of BYU students and the elite education we received. Ohio state was pretty impressed with my perfect OChem score on my admissions test… wondered how I did it… I told them it was Dr. Fleming at BYU… he taught us well. They are aware of our fantastic education. We are a fantastic undergraduate university with some outstanding professional programs.