Post by SDSU-Alum2003 on Apr 18, 2015 22:20:22 GMT -8
www.mwcconnection.com/2015/4/17/8446641/staying-in-mountain-west-was-not-an-option-for-byu
Greg Wrubell
Apr 17
Greg Wrubell @gregwrubell
I asked Bronco if he has in mind a time-frame window, re: BYU's window of opportunity, as it relates to making the jump to P5 status...
Bronco: "I hate to be pinned down, but if someone were to force me, I'd say three years. It has to happen within three."
Bronco: "Could it go longer than (three years)? Yes, it could. Is it desirable to me, to go longer than that? The answer is no."
BYU P5 membership, with its attendant fiscal benefits.
As to any future conference-realignment shift, Bronco says "I still think there is one" coming.
Bronco says CFP-selection protocol/conf championship-game considerations, geographic/divisional additions could precipitate next shift.
Bronco: $$ increasingly becoming a driver in CFB; "unintentionally, I think we're kind of hurting the collective game of college football.
Bronco: "The intent was to promote the game (through additional revenue); I think it's going to backfire, is what I think."
"When two of the Big 3 (BYU, Utah, TCU) were taken to different conferences, to me it was not an option to stay. BYU had to move forward."
Bronco re: upgraded schedules: "Independence was already challenging; it is now becoming more challenging. I welcome that; I want progress."
Bronco says P5s are getting "somewhere from 20 to 27 million dollars" annually, in TV revenue. "That is not what our contract is with ESPN."
Bronco: "At some point, (P5) inclusion has to happen...best way I know to do it is play our way in, and that's what I have chosen to do.
Bronco, on BYU playing big names on big stages, says key Q becomes: "How long can you do that, without the same resources (as P5 programs)?
Interesting that there are some similarities with BYU and SDSU "Rise to 25" goals...
www.sdsualumni.org/s/997/index.aspx?sid=997&gid=1&pgid=3883&cid=9427&ecid=9427&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=6995
"He (Sterk) knows the only way for a Group of Five school to ensure its athletics’ survival is to make itself attractive enough to garner an invitation to one of the power conferences."
"For the next two years, at the top of the list for the entire department will be the football team’s Rise to 25."
Greg Wrubell
Apr 17
Greg Wrubell @gregwrubell
I asked Bronco if he has in mind a time-frame window, re: BYU's window of opportunity, as it relates to making the jump to P5 status...
Bronco: "I hate to be pinned down, but if someone were to force me, I'd say three years. It has to happen within three."
Bronco: "Could it go longer than (three years)? Yes, it could. Is it desirable to me, to go longer than that? The answer is no."
BYU P5 membership, with its attendant fiscal benefits.
As to any future conference-realignment shift, Bronco says "I still think there is one" coming.
Bronco says CFP-selection protocol/conf championship-game considerations, geographic/divisional additions could precipitate next shift.
Bronco: $$ increasingly becoming a driver in CFB; "unintentionally, I think we're kind of hurting the collective game of college football.
Bronco: "The intent was to promote the game (through additional revenue); I think it's going to backfire, is what I think."
"When two of the Big 3 (BYU, Utah, TCU) were taken to different conferences, to me it was not an option to stay. BYU had to move forward."
Bronco re: upgraded schedules: "Independence was already challenging; it is now becoming more challenging. I welcome that; I want progress."
Bronco says P5s are getting "somewhere from 20 to 27 million dollars" annually, in TV revenue. "That is not what our contract is with ESPN."
Bronco: "At some point, (P5) inclusion has to happen...best way I know to do it is play our way in, and that's what I have chosen to do.
Bronco, on BYU playing big names on big stages, says key Q becomes: "How long can you do that, without the same resources (as P5 programs)?
Interesting that there are some similarities with BYU and SDSU "Rise to 25" goals...
www.sdsualumni.org/s/997/index.aspx?sid=997&gid=1&pgid=3883&cid=9427&ecid=9427&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=6995
"He (Sterk) knows the only way for a Group of Five school to ensure its athletics’ survival is to make itself attractive enough to garner an invitation to one of the power conferences."
"For the next two years, at the top of the list for the entire department will be the football team’s Rise to 25."