SaltyDawg
Well-Known Member
If Sunday play is a huge issue, which I'm still not buying, BYU will never be included. Do you remember what happened when the WAC used to play those late Monday night basketball games on ESPN? There was even controversy at BYU over that because people were saying it was intruding on Family Night. Nevermind that the kiddies and such were probably sleeping by then. BYU is unique, for better or worse. The Sabbath is a non-negotiable issue. They'll drop athletics before they start playing on Sundays.
I am as big a BYU hater as you will ever encounter. I would love to sit here and tell you BYU is an obscure program that will never be considered because they suck so bad. But the reality is, Sunday play is the issue. BYU is absolutely as big a program (or bigger) as, for example, Oregon State, Minnesota, South Carolina, etc. If they are in big time conferences, BYU could be too. But BYU will have to be a pretty major program if they are going to promise they will never play on Sunday and have the tv networks not dock the conference for it.