Cancel all non-league games, push start date back 1 week, plan 11 game schedule against all PAC-12 teams.
Thoughts?
That would be fine with me. We’d have football!
So I suppose that would mean these 3 games go away and we’d add to our schedule Stanford and Oregon, the 2 PAC-12 teams we are not presently scheduled to play:
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I wonder what BYU would do if other P5 conferences decide to do the same thing? Take the contract buyout and play only 5 games? 7 of their 12 opponents this season are in P5 conferences.
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Rumor is in a conference-only national situation, BYU would play the other Independents… twice. (I’m not joking.)
Liberty home & home, Massachusetts home & home, New Mexico State, etc.
Besides being hilarious, that may signal the middle part of the end of their program. (The beginning was either Ronnie Mac or PAC-mas.)
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This made my day. Thank you Ma-ake.
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It would be cheaper for TDS to simply take the money and run away until next year. Their fans won’t attend a ■■■■schedule. Given the only sellout they had last season was against us, and if the rest of the P5 bails en masse from their schedule, all they would have less is an unwatchable mess.
Ok, maybe they cobble together a bus league schedule just to have something, but they will lose money doing it.
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There has been rumor floating around also (and this is waaaay out there) that their schedule could be:
Liberty (x2)
UMass (x2)
NM State (x2)
Army (x2)
UConn (x2)
10 game schedule unless they can get a game with Notre Dame.
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So many factors and we’ll know a lot more in a few months than we do now.
We also have the complication that the state of Oregon has reportedly already said no large events (including football) through the end of September.
I’d have no problem with this, were it to happen. But I cannot see it. How does it solve any of the problems, other than starting the season a week later? In fact, it would create more new problems than it would solve.
Wouldn’t it cost the conference a ton of $$$ to cancel all of the non-conference games?
I’m probably the only Ute fan who was kind of looking forward to driving to Laramie and watch the Utes destroy WYO.
What would Notre Dame do with their schedule? They still have too much influence to be dropped off a lot of team’s schedules.
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Could get complicated. Let’s say Utah cancels 3 non-conference games.
Montana State doesn’t come here for their $$$ body bag game. Do we still have to pay them their fee for a game that wasn’t played?
BYU doesn’t play here. Does that just mean next game against them is in Provo in 2021?
We don’t go to Laramie. Does that mean the Cowboys return visit (2025 I believe) is off?
Here’s a scenario: PAC teams agree to have all their players tested/re-tested, possibly have a TV-only season.
Problems with this scenario, unquestionably, but I have a hard time envisioning the PAC exposing their athletes to a broader geographical cross section of players than necessary.
This would be the social distancing college football season… which also adds some distance between P5 & G5 and those wandering in the wilderness, like BYU.
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I don’t know anything about Notre Dame. This is only for the PAC-12, not the NCAA in general. It obviously wouldn’t work in a conference like the SEC which IIRC has 14 teams.
As far as costing money, it might but not significant. I have a hard time thinking that buying out the game with UW-Laramie would be that expensive, either that or the H/H would be cancelled and the return game scheduled as a money game for UW-L. Likewise for Montana State. BYU-Provo would be another animal as the most likely scenario would be to cancel the H/H this game is part of. I have a hard time seeing BYU-P being willing to be a Utah money game.
Amen and amen.
I wish I could remember who it was that said it. It may have been Spence Eccles but don’t quote me because I honestly don’t know. Not a direct quote but something to the effect that Mac turned the ship around and eventually caught Lavell, Urban passed BYU and Kyle is leaving them further and further behind.
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This might nudge Notre Dame to fully join the ACC, as they already have a scheduling agreement.
The rough quote from Spence Eccles is pretty accurate, in terms of what has happened. Meyer was only here 2 years, but I’ll never forget the reaction in Cougar nation after we won the Fiesta Bowl. “At least it’s over, and it will never happen again”.
At least until 4 years later, when it happened again.
And then in '09 was the prototype marketing disaster “Quest for Perfection” where they really, truly believed it was their time.
And then in May 2010… we got the promotion they assumed was rightfully theirs, or something.
I think you could make the case that 08-09-10 was the worst 3 years in BYU’s history. It’s only been reinforced since, in different ways.
- You want a blowout? 54-10.
- You want an embarrassment? Vegas Bowl, 35-0 in less than a quarter, even with a massive advantage of fans, who had scooped up the tickets, knowing far in advance where they were playing
- You want multiple “this close” losses? Take your pick.
Even last year, some thought Zach Wilson’s Sophomore Swagger was somehow going to lead them out of the wilderness… but everyone knew the game was over on the first pick 6 by Bernard. The “whoosh” of energy out of that stadium was more ferocious than the thunderstorm that would give them all an excuse to go home early.
If they end up with a H-H with New Mexico State, Liberty, etc - within the same season(!) - we’ll hear more calls within their fanbase to shut down the program.
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I heard you can only run spread offenses - 6 feet apart. No pick routes. Two-hand no touch. 3 alligator rush, 1 blitz per 4 downs. Jk
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The only thing that would make this better is if this was one of the years that we had to play in provo. Their meltdown about us not playing them would be epic.
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I think this would be a cool format… What happens to football’s post season though? Regular season only?