What crap exactly do you put up with in regards to BYU?
Athletically, it's just that they won't play on Sundays. Otherwise, it's just being associated with a theocratic university. We already have Baylor and that is embarrassing enough.
That isn't true, their honor code,, still, in 2021 discriminates against the lgbtq community. However, I'm just going to sit that aside, we don't even need to discuss that.
The biggest pain in the ass is that they are in Provo, Utah. If you are adding teams and your budget is being cut, you can't have a conference with teams in Orlando, Morgantown, Houston, and Provo, that's insanity, football isn't the only sport that's played, the travel costs would be ridiculous.
Yes, BYU is very popular with Mormons, however the level of their popularity outside of the state of Utah is anecdotal. Their TV numbers aren't any better than the good schools in the AAC. Their enrollment and alumni base is in fact smaller than all those other schools except Memphis and Memphis' enrollment is similar to ours.
Did you know BYU also has their own network for their sports? It's called BYUtv and it's carriage is microscopic, you ever here of it?
If we expanded west and BYU modified their honor code I'd be happy to take them, like if we are going to go 16 instead of 12. But if we're going 12 it makes no sense to add them and no, they don't have more value than Cincinnati, Houston, or UCF. Memphis maybe, but not much. Memphis also gets the conference in a good recruiting area.
Care to share where you got your tv numbers? Everything I see has BYU quite a bit ahead of the AAC teams and a couple sites stated they averaged nearly 2 million/ game when they played P5 teams. Alot of their games were against bad teams and they still have good numbers. Not saying you're wrong, would just like to see actual numbers.
No, their ratings aren't even just okay, they're just bad. Here are the 2020 ratings.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/-A few notes, they were over a million in the regular season twice, once was for what a lot of people, me included, thought was the game of the year against Coastal Carolina, and they got 1.2 for that and once against Houston and they got 1.1 for that.
-They played Boise on the same day Houston played Cincinnati, you would think BYU/Boise could pull at least a decent number, it got less than 700K. Houston vs. Cincinnati got 1.4 million on the same day, and remember Houston wasn't good last year.
-Their bowl game was rated 20th out of 25 post season games.
It really is a niche program, the Big 12 didn't take them because the juice wasn't worth the proverbial squeeze. The Big 12 leadership didn't care about that other stuff, it may be different now but they didn't care in 2014. They didn't think BYU could make them money.
