BYU

[StallionsModelT]

KTP,

There is too much money at stake for SMU to pass up the Big East. When you are talking about a potential 12-15M more a year in revenue, even if SMU lost every game for four years in the conference, it would be a good decision longterm. With that kind of money we could build facilities and possibly add sports. That revenue could get the SMU athletic department out of the huge hole they've dug for the last 30 years. If the invite is real. You don't think twice. LEAVE.

[smupony94]

Thought it was a dead deal

[skyscraper]

Next next week.

[smupony94]

I will check back then

[StallionsModelT]

As long as we are playing hypotheticals

"next week done deal."

[gostangs]

we are BYU's last available dance card. They have about 10M reasons to fold and join. That would be my prediction. Scheduling a bunch of games as an independent multiple season in a row will turn an AD's heart away from independence really quickly.

[skyscraper]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/52 ... n.html.csp

Brigham Young University’s existing television contracts as a football independent are snagging negotiations with the Big East Conference for BYU to join that league’s proposed western division as a football-only member and are threatening to kill the deal altogether, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.

Sources familiar with the negotiations told The Tribune on Monday that talks between BYU and the Big East are continuing, but that there are "some stumbling blocks" that could lead the league to look at another western school, perhaps San Diego State, as a traveling partner for Boise State because the Aztecs don’t carry as much TV baggage as BYU.

The deal is not dead, sources insist, but does not look as likely as it did last Tuesday when The Tribune first reported that BYU was close to joining the Big East in football along with Boise State and, possibly, Air Force. The academy hasn’t decided what it wants to do next and is taking a wait-and-see approach, sources in the East and West have both said.

Apparently, BYU wants to retain its home television rights through its eight-year arrangement with ESPN that allows the broadcast sports giant to televise all but one BYU home football game per season with an estimated payout of between $1 million and $2 million per game. The deal with ESPN allows BYU’s own network, BYUtv, to broadcast the one game not picked up by ESPN and also allows the Cougars to show replays of all their ESPN broadcasts - home or away - on BYUtv.

The Big East does not want to hand over those rights to BYU, primarily because it wants the option of using them when it negotiates a new television contract next year and believes it could affect the value of that contract.

[Stallion]

Here's the Desert News article we were promised

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7002 ... deals.html

[skyscraper]

Here's the Desert News article we were promised

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7002 ... deals.html

Both stories are good, but this part from the Deseret News is telling:

"In essence, BYU wanted to only partially join the Big East and get a preferential exit if they did not like it or things changed. The Big East would not be able to get the existing Big East teams to agree to this scenario, and it is unlikely the new ones would either. Those conditions would also hurt the Big East in television contract renegotiations.

Sounds like BYU is being just as difficult as the Longhorns were about TV rights.

[mrydel]

California here I come. Done deal next 10 days.

[SMUer]

BYU likely wants a zero-penalty clause for leaving to Big12...want their cake and to eat it too. Can we get that too?

[ponyscott]

KTP,

There is too much money at stake for SMU to pass up the Big East. When you are talking about a potential 12-15M more a year in revenue, even if SMU lost every game for four years in the conference, it would be a good decision longterm. With that kind of money we could build facilities and possibly add sports. That revenue could get the SMU athletic department out of the huge hole they've dug for the last 30 years. If the invite is real. You don't think twice. LEAVE.

Love it SMT! Way to stick up for the deal... now you are talking

[Mitch McConnell]

Tell BYU to go to he!! where those jackarses belong.

[Frog Barrister]

Dealing with BYU is terrible. They are worse than the Longhorns when it comes to being selfish. I can't believe BYU pulled this move. Apparently, BYU wants to take zero risk, be able to leave on a whim, and not be part of the Big East TV contract. Sounds to me like BYU is just trying to use the Big East for November scheduling fodder. Right now BYU can't get many games during conference season and is stuck playing SJSU, Idaho, Idaho State, & NMSU.

BYU would be a great addition, but they are basically worthless with these demands. BYU does not know how to play with others. They try to dictate instead of collaborate. I hope you get them, but as an equal, not this nonsense.

[Statler]

Tell BYU to go to he!! where those jackarses belong.

General Patton aka Big Ten Pony has spoke