BCS Dilemma: AQ Standards, The Notre Dame Exception, and BYU

Published on: 3rd September, 2010

The Bowl Championship Series has a problem on its hands. A dilemma has been created that no one, at least outside of the Rocky Mountains, saw coming: BYU as an independent. While BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock is soft shoeing the issue in the present tense, this issue is likely to loom larger with time. The ...

Tommy Tuberville Calls Out Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe

Published on: 1st July, 2010

Tommy Tuberville, incoming coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, was not reserved in attacking the politics that he feels weakens the structure of the Big 12 Conference. Specifically, he implicated Dan Beebe, the current Big 12 Commissioner, indirectly taking him to task for keeping the culture of disparate profit-sharing intact. On ...

BYU AD: Great Opportunities That Did Not Exist Last Week

Published on: 29th June, 2010

At a gathering last Friday, June 24th, with some of the nation's sports editors, BYU Athletic Director Tom Holmoe made some intriguing comments about the future of BYU's athletic program, albeit the meaning of which is certainly, by intention, vague. Amidst Cougar fan frustration that they have not yet been elevated to the BCS ...

Why Arkansas Should Join the Big 12

Published on: 25th June, 2010

Although the controversy will never end regarding college football conference supremacy, when the various rankings are released, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is most frequently seen at the top of the list. It has been that way for the past decade, at least. The SEC promotes what is generally considered to be ...

An Open Letter To TCU, BYU and Boise State

Published on: 24th June, 2010

You are at a crossroads Cougars, Horned Frogs, and Broncos. If you have reached this stage of college football evolution and its BCS structure, and you three have not had some private meetings together to discuss your future, something is wrong. Certainly there are those in your athletic departments and administrations that have figured ...

The Folly Of Big 12 Reasoning

Published on: 22nd June, 2010

The Big 12, currently with 10 programs, and its collective plan for the future is what happens when Economics 101 becomes the sole source of reasoning for conference structure. When money and mathematics become the heart and soul of college athletics, the whole reason behind the success of the product is entirely lost. Sports are about the ...

BYU Vs. Utah: the Rivalry that Was

Published on: 22nd June, 2010

Conference Realignment is not a benign event, and has more far-reaching effects than the players involved can realize.  This will likely prove to be exceptionally true for the now evolving relationship between the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.  The Rivalry.  The Holy War, as some call it, referencing the ...