cowboyz wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:17 pm
BYU Fan 7 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 2:26 pm
Holy hell some of you guys have some absurd hatred for BYU. Lol @ the guy saying he's going to cancel his season tickets.
Granted I am younger, so BYU has been independent ever since I graduated high school, but I've never met a Wyoming fan. Had no idea some of you guys still have so much pent up anger about BYU leaving the conference (for the record, it would have been stupid to stay).
Is it just a vocal minority that's like this or is the majority of the Wyoming fan base a bunch of BYU haters?
Regardless, I look forward to our upcoming games. Go Cougs!
I don't have a strong opinion on BYUs decisions, but how do you figure it would have been stupid for BYU to stay in the MWC? Since BYU has left their regular season winning percentage is worse then when they were in the MWC as is their Bowl Game winning percentage, plus they fill their schedule with present MWC and ex-MWC teams. Granted BYU took a shot at the "big time" and f-word it up. Now they wish they stayed, simple as that. And the other non-football sports play in some dip poop conference with a few good teams sprinkled across all the sports. In fact, don't some of the WCC teams play against high schools as part of their non-conference schedule?
Yeah that's a fair question. I alluded to it in some other posts, but here are the primary reasons:
1. Money. As a result of going independent, BYU now brings in more revenue than any G5 school and is on par with the lower half of the PAC-12 schools. For more info see my source:
https://espn960sports.com/byu/byu-footb ... stainable/
More money is better, that's pretty straightforward.
2. ESPN. BYU games are broadcast on ESPN networks instead of the terrible MTN network. I seriously couldnt stand that network. Aside from the terrible quality (picture quality, announcer quality, camera work, etc), ESPN just offers much more exposure and it's a lot easier to access for those of us that live outside the MWC region.
ESPN > MTN...that's pretty undebateable.
3. Opportunity to schedule big programs such as LSU, Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Texas, etc. The ideal schedule includes a couple "stretch" games where you're the clear under dog, a good number of winnable games against quality opponents, and a couple cupcake games. It's been awesome to watch BYU play a variety of opponents, especially from some of the top programs. And then we fill in our schedule with a number of MWC opponents, which makes sense because those are definitely winnable games, but generally quality opponents. And they're in close proximity, which is ideal.
There are other less significant reasons, but those are the 3 I'd point to when I say BYU would be stupid to stay in the MWC. Money is probably the biggest one though.