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Football Independence and Join WCC for Other Sports

by byucougar1 · 8/19/2010

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Schmoe wrote:
Could the I-AA schools make a push and add a couple sports by the necessary join date (2 years)?

If the school and the boosters had enough interest and money they could. It only takes one year to start up a sport.



Or, they could tell the NCAA: 'It's 2010. We want to join the WAC in 2012. We promise to have 16 sports by 2014. Deal or No Deal?' After the whole I-AA to I-A moratorium for the last few years, perhaps the NCAA would be willing to play nice to help the WAC survive. Maybe even ESPN helps back this all financially, since that seems to be the easy answer deJour lately.





Speaking of which, the WCC has men's soccer, while the MWC does not. Perhaps if BYU left the MWC and joined the West Coast Conference, we would start up a true NCAA men's soccer team again... to go along with a new Women's Rowing program (another sport the WCC carries)..... :whistle:
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SpiffCoug
I think the men's soccer teams enjoys playing in the PDL. I heard on the radio that while the WCC doesn't have all the sports BYU does, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has all but one of the ones the WCC doesn't. That's the federation the volleyball team used to play in until they broke rules and are going to be punished. I think the volleyball team is now in repeat offender status.
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dsmith1212
kitic77 wrote:
I think the men's soccer teams enjoys playing in the PDL. I heard on the radio that while the WCC doesn't have all the sports BYU does, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has all but one of the ones the WCC doesn't. That's the federation the volleyball team used to play in until they broke rules and are going to be punished. I think the volleyball team is now in repeat offender status.



I did not realize the MPSF is hugh and includes a who's-who of west coast universities (lots of Pac-10 and WCC schools, very little from the MWC). Here is a run down of some of the sports and some of the teams in the MPSF:



Men's soccer

Air Force

Cal State Bakersfield

Denver

New Mexico

Sacramento State

San Jose State

Seattle

UNLV



Men's water polo

USC

Stanford

California

UCLA

Pepperdine

UC Irvine

UC Santa Barbara

Pacific

Long Beach State



Men's gymnastics

Air Force

California

Nebraska

Oklahoma

Stanford



Women's gymnastics

Alaska - Anchorage

Air Force

Seattle Pacific

UC Davis



Men's indoor track and field

Arizona

California

Long Beach State

Oregon

Stanford

UCLA

Washington

Washington State



Women's indoor track and field

Arizona

California

Long Beach State

Oregon

Stanford

UCLA

UC Irvine

Washington

Washington State



Women's Swimming and Diving

Cal Poly

Cal State Bakersfield

Loyola Marymount

Northern Colorado

Pacific

University of San Diego

Seattle University

UC Davis

UC Santa Barbara



Women's water polo

Arizona State

California

Hawaii

San Diego State

San Jose State

Stanford

UCLA

USC



Men's Volleyball

Brigham Young

Cal State Northridge

Hawaii

Long Beach State

Pacific

Pepperdine

Stanford

UC Irvine

UCLA

UC San Diego

UC Santa Barbara

USC



Women's lacrosse

California

Denver

Fresno State

Oregon

St. Mary’s

Stanford

UC Davis
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dsmith1212
I don't know about you, but I would not mind the idea of playing home and home with Notre Dame every year in November, perhaps with a side of Army and Navy (with their national followings and East coast bias).



"Even at Notre Dame, which would seemingly have a long list of suitors willing to play the Fighting Irish, scheduling is no picnic, said Notre Dame Senior Associate Athletic Director John Heisler. He said he meets with a colleague every week to work on it. 'We have to find 12 games a year while other schools are just looking for three or four [nonconference] opponents,' he said. 'We have to put more time and attention into it. … We don’t even try to have just one person do it. That would be pretty hard. It’s not a drawback, not a negative. It’s just a time thing. It takes a lot of time.' Heisler said if BYU does indeed go independent, there is “a possibility” that the Irish would play the Cougars every year, most likely in November. 'If nothing else, they would have the same flexibility that we would late in the season, while most teams are playing their conference games,' he said, while declining to address BYU’s situation specifically, or give an opinion on its viability." http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/50146842-88/byu-state-conference-football.html.csp?page=1
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dsmith1212 wrote:
I don't know about you, but I would not mind the idea of playing home and home with Notre Dame every year in November, perhaps with a side of Army and Navy (with their national followings and East coast bias).



"Even at Notre Dame, which would seemingly have a long list of suitors willing to play the Fighting Irish, scheduling is no picnic, said Notre Dame Senior Associate Athletic Director John Heisler. He said he meets with a colleague every week to work on it. 'We have to find 12 games a year while other schools are just looking for three or four [nonconference] opponents,' he said. 'We have to put more time and attention into it. … We don’t even try to have just one person do it. That would be pretty hard. It’s not a drawback, not a negative. It’s just a time thing. It takes a lot of time.' Heisler said if BYU does indeed go independent, there is “a possibility” that the Irish would play the Cougars every year, most likely in November. 'If nothing else, they would have the same flexibility that we would late in the season, while most teams are playing their conference games,' he said, while declining to address BYU’s situation specifically, or give an opinion on its viability." http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/50146842-88/byu-state-conference-football.html.csp?page=1


I'd be on board as long as it wasn't a long string of 2-for-1s. Otherwise, I'd say take the one-a-decade approach we've taken with Notre Dame.
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