bball wrote:

All the D-1 football schools should boycott football for one year, then there would be no funding for any sport, and maybe they'd throw out that absurd Title IX junk. The majority of the women who play NCAA sports don't want to play anyway, they just want the free ride to a degree. I remember in the 90s, living in Utah County and the BYU women's coaches saying they couldn't find enough women to even offer scholarships to, they didn't want to play NCAA anything. That's when schools were scrambling to find ways to give as many women scholarships as men, and they began fielding teams in field hockey, cricket, and other sports nobody cares about. But the NCAA was happy, and the feminist groups were all giddy about how "equality" was finally coming to college athletics. Whatever...

I think it was great legislation. They finally attracted enough women to play college bball that I got to see one dunk in a game!

What was with Wrubell's comment about the BCS? I don't understand how the BCS has muted BYU's recent success in football and basketball.

There is no question that BYU has accomplished great things in football and basketball over the last 3 years, and the credit that they have received has been most appropriate. However, it's not like they should be deserving MORE credit, but that dastardly BCS is suppressing BYU from enhanced national respect.

Bottom line, if BYU football wants more national respect they need to be able to beat average Pac-10 teams on the road and beat ranked teams in nonconference play. If BYU wants more respect in basketball then they need to start winning in the NCAA tournament.

These are factors that are within BYU's control not under the control of the BCS.

mormonrasta wrote:

Bottom line, if BYU football wants more national respect they need to be able to beat average Pac-10 teams on the road and beat ranked teams in nonconference play.

But why should BYU be forced to do things that BCS cartel teams don't have to do? (see OSU, Illiniois)