If you look in a map, SDS isn't very much closer to LA than Vegas is. Plus UNLV is playing in a shiny new domed stadium this fall.
The Mormon Church and BYU have a huge number of followers in the West. BYU would bring more eyeballs to Pac10/12 football that any other school and it isn't even close for # 2.
If you look in a map, SDS isn't very much closer to LA than Vegas is. Plus UNLV is playing in a shiny new domed stadium this fall.
The Mormon Church and BYU have a huge number of followers in the West. BYU would bring more eyeballs to Pac10/12 football that any other school and it isn't even close for # 2.
"BYU is its own discussion I don't personally count them in play here"
BINGO! The Notre Dame of the West is removed from consideration due to religious bias. Betcha you don't want them Air Force Academy baby killers, either.
Buck, I imagine much of the anti-BYU mentality of the Pac-10/12 Presidents has subsided since the top two schools bolted without saying 'good-bye'. The remaining ones might be more interested in conference survival than snob factor.
If you look in a map, SDS isn't very much closer to LA than Vegas is. Plus UNLV is playing in a shiny new domed stadium this fall.
The Mormon Church and BYU have a huge number of followers in the West. BYU would bring more eyeballs to Pac10/12 football that any other school and it isn't even close for # 2.
BYU is its own discussion
I don't personally count them in play here, which is also why I have SDSU at #1 on the list
UNLV has an awful football program. Don't take it from me. Wilner shot that one down himself, on exactly that point
"BYU is its own discussion I don't personally count them in play here"
BINGO! The Notre Dame of the West is removed from consideration due to religious bias. Betcha you don't want them Air Force Academy baby killers, either.
You are misattributing bias to me
Please be careful doing that
I don't count BYU in play because they are on the way to the B12 and seem happy about that.
I'd be fine with them as part of a pairing with SDSU coming in...
I just don't see it as an option on the table
Buck, I imagine much of the anti-BYU mentality of the Pac-10/12 Presidents has subsided since the top two schools bolted without saying 'good-bye'. The remaining ones might be more interested in conference survival than snob factor.