Playoff Expansion and implications for TDS

Rivalry Update Below:

BYU SUCKS ASS!!!

Imagine BYU groveling to Wyoming, Utah State, and SDSU to be let back into the MWC. Haha.

SDSU should write another letter to any conference BYU tries to join.

It’s not like the AAC doesn’t remember how high maintenance ybU-p was when they were negotiating with them back in 2011.  And they didn’t even want ybU-p from the get-go.  For those who had forgotten, here’s the playback…

1.  The Big East was losing TCU and WVU, and feared with the rise of the MWC, and the decline of the Big [L]East, they risked losing their AQ status.  So in order to beef up their league, they sought out the best midmajor school available — Boise St.

2.  The Idaho Board of Education refused to allow BSU to move to the Big [L]East unless they had a travel partner.  So…

3.  The AAC reached out to….Air Force!  But the Zoomies declined the offer, as they felt they wouldn’t have been competitive enough to move to a higher league, that happened to be all the way across the country.

4.  So Boise St — not the Big [L]East— suggested, “What about BYU?”  The Big [L]East was all like. “Whatever….just so long as we get BSU.”

5.  So the Big [L]East reached out to ybU-p, who responded in classic Yner fashion of being all high maintenance.  And just how high maintenance were they?

Answer:  They demanded that they get to keep their Al-JazoobieTV station, AND, that they be immediately eligible for full revenue sharing.  AND they demanded a FULL share of all television revenues at all their road games, BUT, demanded that they get to keep ALL revenues for their Home games.  Even Notre Dame — who was a full member in all non-football sports — wasn’t getting THAT deal!

6.  San Diego St — who’d heard all that absurdity being played out over the media — stepped forward and pitched themselves as a better candidate, and even went so far as to include in their letter a very compelling list all the reasons why the Big [L]East really wouldn’t want to take on all that zoobie baggage.  And since the Big [L]East didn’t really care — just so long as they still got Boise St — they asked BSU if it would be okay with the Idaho Board of Education if they invited SDSU as their travel partner instead.  And all while this was being played out, ybU-p continued to dig in their heels, acting like they were the big prize, and if the Big [L]East wanted their services, they’d have to capitulate.

ybU-p hadn’t changed one iota as far as their “pride” is concerned.  We saw THAT playing out with the Big XII.  And so too did the AAC.

The AAC won’t ever offer them another invitation.  They don’t need them.  And should the AAC decide to expand back to 12 teams, I’m betting the first team they ask will be Army, and Boise St, SDSU, AFA, UTSA, USM, and UMass will all be ahead of ybU-p in who will fill that one final spot.

And since the MWC is already at 12-teams, even if they COULD get the minimum of 9 “aye” votes to join — which for the record, they can NOT — that league is already full.  No room.  The zoobs will have to reach out to C-USA,the MAC, and the Sun Belt if they want to rejoin a conference.  Haha!

I think they are doing just fine on their own; 11-1 record last year. The lard will continue to provide to them health in the navel, marrow in the bones, strength in the loins and in the sinews to defeat their opponents on and off the field.

Well this escalated quickly. But seriously, if you ask Cougarboard, they were forced to go independent because TCU and Utah left. It’s completely untrue. Boise replaced Utah’s two BCS wins and MWC likely would have gotten a BCS bowl bid under the formula. But BYU left in August 2010, two months after Utah did. Sitting still was their best strategy but their dumped girlfriend wounded pride required them to act out. Patterson was livid. TCU joined Big East in November 2010 and switched to B12 later. BYU did all this to themselves.

Tom Holmoe needs BYU football to win 7-11 games a year to keep the independence scam alive. Right here in River City. If they win too much or too little they get exposed. This year actually looks risky. The schedule is too much. The Lavell Edwards Bring in the Scrubs Schedule ™ last year was perfect but it is unsustainable. As long as they keep that AD they will not be “good” enough for other conferences but they will always be on the edge of greatness to the fans, who will complain about the disrespect for basically as long as they are alive. Lavell was the anomoly, the present is mean reversion. They earned all of this. Every bit.