E-6.
Okay, it's been awhile since I last posted. Vacation is over. Saturday's World Cup draw between the USA and England has brought me to my senses.
Soccer is just like baseball, America's past time. It was decided by an E-6.
Here's how Derek Jeter does it.
Here's how the Brit's Robert Green did it and why the USA escaped with a 1-1 draw. As they say in baseball, and apparently in soccer also, you have to make the routine plays.
BYU Should Go East For Their Football Future
In college football, it is now all about expansion, contraction and Super Leagues and Super TV contracts. This is just getting started and in my opinion, will eventually end in the demise of college football.
The haves will squeeze out the have nots. That is taking place now. Eventually we see the haves also squeezing themselves out of the picture.
We see it ending with The SEC, Pac 10, Big Ten and some sort of another conglomeration of current BCS schools, all vying for big television dollars. We also eventually see them leaving the NCAA umbrella and becoming their own governing entity.
Before too long, we see big time college football at a professional level. We already saw a preview of it with USC.
If the big boys are going to play hardball and big time football, it is just a short step away from professional football. They will find that when it comes to professional football, fans want to watch the highest level of football.
Our take is that the BCS boys will find that they will eventually become at best a Triple A version of pro football and won't be able to compete with the NFL. Just look at the attendance at AAA baseball games versus MLB games.
When it comes to television networks and money, the closer the college game gets to the professional level, they will find that the NFL will eventually have all the clout and cash and the BCS game will become obsolete.
Just one guy's opinion.
It will be a while before we get to that stage so what should BYU do in the meantime? If nothing else, this recent stirring and mixing of college football has slapped BYU fans in the face. The Cougars are not as big of a deal as we all thought they were. If they were, BYU would already have an invite somewhere besides the Mountain West Conference.
The future of BYU football is east...As in just east of the Marriott Center.
This is where the new BYU broadcast center is currently under construction. It is a big-time facility and makes the Mountain Network facilities pale in comparison.
The LDS Church has huge world-wide plans for this facility. BYU football should gravy train on those plans as soon as it can.
BYU is never going to have an automatic qualifier chance at a national title or BCS bowl game. That is my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
Here is what I see as a viable option. Go ahead and hurt some feelings of fellow MWC conference members and tell them that you want to stay in the league in every sport but football. Go independent in that sport and sell the football broadcasting rights to KSL for local production and distribution (The Utah TV Market). That alone would almost equal, if not surpass, what the MWC television split in revenue was for BYU this past year from the MWC.
After KSL gets the local market, then sell the national market with your own advertising and put the product on the BYU TV network. The Network is clamoring for programming and BYU will automatically have what the Texas Longhorns are longing for: Their own network.
If the Big East will acquiesce to Notre Dame and let the Irish play in their league in every sport except for football, BYU is a big enough fish in the MWC pond, that if they use some of their power, they could get their current league to let them compete in everything but football.
BYU already has everything Texas wants and Notre Dame already has, except on a smaller scale. The Cougars have a football team, they have a niche market and they have a network already up and running. Texas is about to find out how expensive it is to come up with your own network. They will also find out that providing programming on a 24/7 basis is not easy.
Forget conference expansion. If BYU asked me, I would tell them to do what it takes to get the MWC to let them stay and play in every sport except football. If the MWC won't do it, ask the WAC. If they won't, then keep asking. C-USA would be next in line.
The money for survival for teams like BYU is not in your league affiliation, but in what you can generate via television. BYU has a leg up on every other football school in the nation right now. What we don't know is if they have the footballs, foresight and fortitude to make it happen.
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