BYU chooses independence over non-AO sponsorship
Posted: Wed Sep 1, 2010 10:36 am
BYU will get more money because of this. This is fact. The MWC TV deal is bad even for New Mexico. They will get a couple million from ESPN (worth a couple more than their current deal) and get to put on commercials from the Foundation for a Better Life on their own station. (You know those commercials, they used to say "A message from the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints) I guess people didn't want to do cute and pleasant things for others if it meant being a mormon. I dunno.
It will mean BYU has nothing to play for until they get Army/Navy deals with minor bowls. They have no one to play besides Hawaii and Utah State. Even Utah is too cool for them now. Our rival is USC bitches! (the author is a Ute alum) Don't you be pulling any crazy pranks this year you dastardly Trojans!
BYU will need ESPN to create a respectable schedule. They won't get NBC help the Notre Dame doesn't need. They will get games against BCS conferences at home though. Your Vanderbilts and Connecticuts will take this arrangement to get on ESPN on any given year. At that point BYU will need to beat the Texas's or Georgias that will let them play at their home. After all that perfection is required. The BCS bowls only have BYUs ability to sell physical tickets to rely on. Mormons get cable ratings, but network ratings are another story. Only Fiesta can really consider the Mormon factor a plus. Sure, Rose Bowl has plenty of willing mormons for their coffers, but the pot is so much bigger, and the community is smaller than the Mormons in Arizona. You remember when Arizona voted in a Governor who stopped Martin Luther King Day and everyone was like, wow, Arizona is more racist than I thought, and then that governor was convicted of fraud? He was a mormon. Besides the point, but Arizona is less evolved than Mississippi.
BYU will need to hope that they are successful;(semicolon) AND the Longhorn Network is sort of successful, but not super successful. Just enough to make the Big-12 realize special networks help the league out. Then the Big-12 adds BYU and Loyola Marymount who's new WCC basketball success influences them to open up Football, hire Pete Carroll, and join the Big-12.
But in all reality what really happens is BYU runs in place, continues to recruit well from mormons and less active mormons, and later joins Conference-USA for all(only) sports named Football (in the USA). The Utah Utes in the meantime ascend to the National Championship game to defeat some school from a confederate state one week after crushing Washington St. in the Pac-12 Championship Game Sponsored by Chipotle Mexican Grill 63-2.
It will mean BYU has nothing to play for until they get Army/Navy deals with minor bowls. They have no one to play besides Hawaii and Utah State. Even Utah is too cool for them now. Our rival is USC bitches! (the author is a Ute alum) Don't you be pulling any crazy pranks this year you dastardly Trojans!
BYU will need ESPN to create a respectable schedule. They won't get NBC help the Notre Dame doesn't need. They will get games against BCS conferences at home though. Your Vanderbilts and Connecticuts will take this arrangement to get on ESPN on any given year. At that point BYU will need to beat the Texas's or Georgias that will let them play at their home. After all that perfection is required. The BCS bowls only have BYUs ability to sell physical tickets to rely on. Mormons get cable ratings, but network ratings are another story. Only Fiesta can really consider the Mormon factor a plus. Sure, Rose Bowl has plenty of willing mormons for their coffers, but the pot is so much bigger, and the community is smaller than the Mormons in Arizona. You remember when Arizona voted in a Governor who stopped Martin Luther King Day and everyone was like, wow, Arizona is more racist than I thought, and then that governor was convicted of fraud? He was a mormon. Besides the point, but Arizona is less evolved than Mississippi.
BYU will need to hope that they are successful;(semicolon) AND the Longhorn Network is sort of successful, but not super successful. Just enough to make the Big-12 realize special networks help the league out. Then the Big-12 adds BYU and Loyola Marymount who's new WCC basketball success influences them to open up Football, hire Pete Carroll, and join the Big-12.
But in all reality what really happens is BYU runs in place, continues to recruit well from mormons and less active mormons, and later joins Conference-USA for all(only) sports named Football (in the USA). The Utah Utes in the meantime ascend to the National Championship game to defeat some school from a confederate state one week after crushing Washington St. in the Pac-12 Championship Game Sponsored by Chipotle Mexican Grill 63-2.