After a strange 24 hours, to say the least, a lot of BYU fans awoke this morning feeling these words of Tennyson ringing true (In Memoriam):
Behold, we know not anything,
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last-far off-at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
When will BYU's winter change to spring? Or will it ever? For now, they remain a BCS-caliber school stuck in a non-BCS league.
And so, after a frantic 24 hours, the status of BYU is "unknown," which is to say, nothing has changed. As far as we know, BYU will continue forever to be a member of the MWC. In the end, the media circus brought about one change: Fresno State and Nevada are going to join the MWC in 2012. The MWC should take this one step further and add either Utah State (which they probably SHOULD have added in place of Nevada) or Houston. This 11-team thing is pretty worthless.
The MWC has survived: the WAC must die. I feel for Utah State who finally might have a football program worth something and who have had a quality hoops team for the better part of a decade. Where do THEY go from here? Or Hawaii, who does offer quite a bit as well? Now San Jose State, New Mexico State, Louisiana Tech, and Idaho don't really bring anything to anyone, so they will have to try to latch on to some other gravy train of some sort. Or lose football and join the Big Sky in everything else?
I was in the athletic offices today regarding my lack of parking pass with my season tickets. Got that squared away easily. Saw Tom Holmoe while there. He was tossing a football to someone else and laughing. Did not seem to have a care in the world and certainly was not on the phone making calls in the middle of the afternoon.
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