Reply to "Will Texas and OU Blow Up The Big12"

RJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007

@LousyLefty posted:
I’m surprised BYU doesn’t go Pac12.

One reason is academic snobbery. All of the PAC 12 universities are research universities. BYU is not.

The second reason is religious bigotry. The Mormon Church supports very conservative principles. They don’t fit in with west coast liberal ideology. The PAC 12 presidents didn’t want protests every time BYU came to town.

BYU would have been a natural from a rivalry perspective to join along with Utah. Every other PAC 12 team has a cross city/metro area or cross state rival. But when expansion came up the PAC 10 bypassed BYU and went straight to Colorado.

9/9/2110:53 AM

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