Wow. I love football... even college football, even BYU football. But it has to go. BYU will very soon be left out of the merging super-conferences, and cut off from the money needed to run a major college program successfully. The Cougs can stay in their own little conference, going to their own little bowl game (maybe). Most of the other teams in the MWC will never be invited to go to a bowl coalition/big money conference. They will be stuck with BYU forever, fading ever farther into obscurity.
We should give up on trying to run a major college football program and spend the money on academics. Like perhaps endowed chairs in science or the humanities. Or focusing on doing what it takes to become a major research university, or improving our grad schools. Of course we can still have sports. We do wonderfully in Volleyball and Rugby!
You can't have everything. The great academic universities can't run major college sports programs. Well, there are a few exceptions... Cal, Stanford, Northwestern, Air Force, maybe Duke. Hey, those schools should always play for the championship. In all the calculations used to determine the college football championsip, academics should be 50%. That way one of the few universities that can be first tier in education AND sports would probably win.
One question remains... when the football program fades away, what will we do with Lavell Edwards stadium... maybe use it for Rugby?
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