Yeah the big 10 isnt interested in adding BYU. Thats not happening
This isn’t exactly what I said. I said they’d be the first team poached from the Big 12. I acknowledge their additional challenges brought on by the religious affiliation and adherences. And there are a number of schools ahead of them (particularly several members of the ACC), but of the Big12 schools, BYU is easily the biggest fish from a revenue, TV eyeball, and branding perspective.
Edit: I actually re-read my prior post and I said “conference team” poached. I didn’t actually specify Big 12 but it was my intention.
The only conferences that could poach from theB12 are the B10 and the SEC. There is a massive negative chance that the SEC thinks that’s a fit. That leaves the B10, who have the 4 strongest members of the former P12 that didn’t want them. BYU is not AAU accredited. I would put Colorado and Kansas ahead of BYU If the B10 expanded, from the B12. I think AAU accredited schools like N Carolina, Virginia and Miami would be front runners if the ACC collapses.
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I agree that it would likely be the Big10 that poached BYU. I disagree though on your Pac 12 take. I think it was BYU initially who didn’t want to be part of a conference, and then later, it was Utah who was against BYU joining. But previously conference alignments also cared more about TV markets, and Utah and BYU overlapped so BYU was redundant. I do agree that the Big10 would be interested in CU and KU. Accreditation matters, but I doubt it will be the end-all decider. I could easily see a scenario where the Big10 captures BYU and CU and fills their “Mountain Time Zone” and forms a bridge between their Central and West Coast teams.
Agreed with Utah, but the P12 did not want BYU.
You can Google BYU being snubbed by the P12. There’s all kinds of articles on it. BYU cheered when the P12 collapsed.