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The TV people find BYU as a good add for them with their good, but not enormous, national following. Not to mention, they're the most successful football program on the table so it'd be an easier pill to swallow for the other B12 members. The hiccups with BYU are not related to TV or football, it's the Sunday play, the Honor Code/LGBT stances, BYU's reputation of being difficult to deal with, and them becoming another geographical island out west for the B12.Now we have to beat out Cincy? Why is the B12 looking at BYU at all if TV partners want Eastern additions? B12 should just take Cincy and UCONN for the 2. Cincy and UCONN will make the conference more Eastern. With WVU, it would be a good Eastern pot.
Nothing B12 does make any sense. For us, we just need to get it, and worry about the future later.
Edit: BL - In reference to your post above, I have a lot of trouble seeing the football-only slant working here. With relation to us, why in the world would the other B12 schools want only our football program? As many in the media have said, it's a ridiculous proposition. The same for Cincinnati, why would you only take their football team if geography is the argument against the rest of their sports? UC is closer to the other members than WVU - it's a doable one-day drive from KU and ISU in addition to WVU, so that makes no sense. The only one football-only makes any sense for is BYU because of their Sunday-only clause, and their other programs not being as valuable as their football team. Sure, BYU basketball is respectable, but Cincinnati's is better and would be competitive in the B12, and of course there's both of our BB programs. But one-sport additions are unprecedented in the P5, and I think it'd only add to the instability of the league. In the end, I have a lot of difficulty seeing them arrive at a football-only inclusion, unless its with BYU and even that's a bit of a stretch.
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