Gentlemen, it's all over
BYU is a dead man walking. We had suspected this for a while, but now it is true.
1) No power conference will accept BYU.
2) No power conference will include BYU in their scheduling rules.
3) With the advent of the playoff, BYU as an independent will never make the playoffs.
4) BYU will never play in a major bowl.
And at the end of the day it comes down to one major thing: Sunday play and the associated TV money that goes with flexible scheduling. We all know the Prop 8 stuff didn't help. But that's not the main thing. There's really no reason to partner with BYU. And no one will.
We had some good times, some good games, some good heroes. Some great memories. But it's not something that our children and our children's children will ever see. It will just be in the dusty ol' books that no one reads.
And BYU will just be a cheap private school designed to pump kids into the work force or go on to advanced educations at other schools. That's all she wrote. Goodbye and goodnight. Lock up when you leave, if you don't mind.
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