A recent thread on playing BYU seemed to garner a lot of attention which is no surprise.
I have one close friend I sat by in Church today who is former BYU basketball player from the 70's (I'm 60). He increasingly expresses frustration with BYU's football schedule and basketball membership in the WCC. Like most, he sees their football season as essentially meaningless unless they either go undefeated or play a monster schedule (tough for them to even arrange) and only have one or two losses. He's quit renewing his football tickets - "the drive is not worth the quality of the game I'll be watching."
My son has a business partner who is a former BYU QB who attends more Utah football games than BYU football games just because he likes the quality of football. He asked me if there was any way I'd consider selling him 2 of my 8 season tickets for next year. He thinks BYU football is headed "nowhere" fast and is becoming increasingly irrelevant. He'd still take BYU if they were playing Utah but it's interesting he wants Utah tickets and has no interest in trekking down to Provo for most of their home games.
With this backdrop and the thread on playing BYU football, I thought it might be interesting to get your forecasts on where BYU football will be in 5 years. My sense is that independence isn't working out very well but BYU will be too proud to admit that and will not return to the Mtn West or any similar conference. I see them continuing the independence route and continuing the self-delusion that they are somehow a P-5 equivalent as an independent.
I could have included countless answers but here are a few options.
This post was edited on 2/9 12:51 PM by mmoffitt321801
I have one close friend I sat by in Church today who is former BYU basketball player from the 70's (I'm 60). He increasingly expresses frustration with BYU's football schedule and basketball membership in the WCC. Like most, he sees their football season as essentially meaningless unless they either go undefeated or play a monster schedule (tough for them to even arrange) and only have one or two losses. He's quit renewing his football tickets - "the drive is not worth the quality of the game I'll be watching."
My son has a business partner who is a former BYU QB who attends more Utah football games than BYU football games just because he likes the quality of football. He asked me if there was any way I'd consider selling him 2 of my 8 season tickets for next year. He thinks BYU football is headed "nowhere" fast and is becoming increasingly irrelevant. He'd still take BYU if they were playing Utah but it's interesting he wants Utah tickets and has no interest in trekking down to Provo for most of their home games.
With this backdrop and the thread on playing BYU football, I thought it might be interesting to get your forecasts on where BYU football will be in 5 years. My sense is that independence isn't working out very well but BYU will be too proud to admit that and will not return to the Mtn West or any similar conference. I see them continuing the independence route and continuing the self-delusion that they are somehow a P-5 equivalent as an independent.
I could have included countless answers but here are a few options.
This post was edited on 2/9 12:51 PM by mmoffitt321801
