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A few takeaways from a presser today with BYU AD Tom Holmoe:

Brigham Young University is not actively looking to place its independent football team into a conference outside one of the five power conferences, athletic director Tom Holmoe said Wednesday during an hourlong roundtable discussion with reporters who cover the school’s athletic program.

“You can ask me that question a thousand times, and that answer is going to be, ‘if that day comes, you are going to know it,’” Holmoe said. “It is the same answer I have always said: We are not looking right now to get into another league.”

Holmoe has said in the past that independence is not sustainable in the long term, but he backed away from that stand a bit at the Marriott Center Annex Wednesday, saying that where the Cougars are now is better than they would be if they were in a Group of Five conference such as the Mountain West.

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/byu-cougars/2018/01/24/byu-athletic-director-tom-holmoe-talks-espn-contract-cougars-future-as-a-football-independent-and-more/

Another interesting tidbit from a press member present:

Holmoe said Mountain West Conference's stance toward BYU has improved since Cougars left in 2011. Says he talks a lot to commish Craig Thompson. Both sit on NCAA basketball selection committee.

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44 minutes ago, ole blu dude said:

 Thanks for the update which most understood before little Tom told the press. Byu is like crap on your shoe no matter how hard you try you are never completely clean after exposure.

You’re welcome...  Just educating the ignorant masses on here who continually quote Holmoe’s “Independence is unsustainable” comment out of context as evidence BYU is dying to get back into a G5 conference.  Not happening.  It’s P5 > Indy > G5 as I’ve said for years.

 

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1 hour ago, NorCalCoug said:

You’re welcome...  Just educating the ignorant masses on here who continually quote Holmoe’s “Independence is unsustainable” comment out of context as evidence BYU is dying to get back into a G5 conference.  Not happening.  It’s P5 > Indy > G5 as I’ve said for years.

 

LOL

Holmoe is the anti-KUSTRA

Fact is, he steered his boat off the edge of the Earth. He aint even hit land.

Independence is like being a floating piece of garbage in outer space. Liberty, BYU, UMass, etc, can have at it. BYU is in a mid-major conference anyway. Playing football with a made up schedule don't make them bigtime. 

Notre Dame has an Orange Bowl tie in (and they play their Olympics in a multiple bid league). Unless BYU gets a Major Bowl tie in, being Indy is not better than having a conference to win. It's Siberia.

They send their teams to play in HS sized gyms. That's their reality. Notre Dame (and Utah) have never banished their Olympics like that.

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BYU is simply waiting for the BIg12's new TV contract that will happen after 2024-2025, and the potential of realignment.  It's not surprising to see BYU go into a holding pattern.  

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원숭이도 나무에서 떨어진다.

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1 hour ago, Gabe H. Cuod said:

LOL

Holmoe is the anti-KUSTRA

Fact is, he steered his boat off the edge of the Earth. He aint even hit land.

Independence is like being a floating piece of garbage in outer space. Liberty, BYU, UMass, etc, can have at it. BYU is in a mid-major conference anyway. Playing football with a made up schedule don't make them bigtime. 

Notre Dame has an Orange Bowl tie in (and they play their Olympics in a multiple bid league). Unless BYU gets a Major Bowl tie in, being Indy is not better than having a conference to win. It's Siberia.

They send their teams to play in HS sized gyms. That's their reality. Notre Dame (and Utah) have never banished their Olympics like that.

 

A "Major Bowl tie in" is worthless when you aren't bowl eligible.  

BYU f'ball 2017:  4-9 

 

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BYU plays 1 Bid basketball in HS gyms.

They aren't relevant.

Their football team is the second coming of The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. Not relevant.

The comedy comes in their insistence they somehow have a special status.

Outside of riding the short bus, I don't know what that could be.

They are aligned with the schools of the WCC. Those are their NCAA peers. Worse than G5. The infrastructure of those schools is trash.

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