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Originally Posted by Indy Coug
1. So if BYU goes independent, what are the odds they get an attractive TV deal with someone?
2. If BYU goes independent and has 3 straight losing seasons again, what happens to that TV contract?
3. If BYU goes independent and has 3 straight losing seasons again, what happens to their shared bowl revenue? Shared NCAA tournament revenue?
4. Will BYU be able to adequately fill their home game scheduling needs (both in quality and number of opponents)?
5. Certainly with the lack of guarantees represented by #s 1 to 4, what makes you think the Board of Trustees will consider this a justifiable risk to take going independent?
P.S. You didn't really answer my questions earlier, so why don't you answer those first before answering these newer questions.
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1. The TV deal, which is much more lucrative than it used to be provides BYU < $1M per year. We could make that in one game with a home game against a Notre Dame. We could make double that putting the rest of the games on Channel 16 or 24 just in Utah. Any TV deal as an independent would blow away what we have now.
2. Two years removed from losing season three years in a row, BYU demand is as high as ever. The demand is there and it's not going away that easy.
3. We don't get shared bowl revenue--maybe a few hundred K at the most in a good year. Shared NCAA tournament revenue is a bigger deal.
4. Absolutely. Schedule would go something like this: 3-4 Pac 10's, 3-4 other BCS conference schools, 3-4 old MWC/other non BCS, Utah, Utah State, non D-1A. Beautiful thing.
5. BoT wouldn't even approve a Thanksgiving evening game with Utah that would have made bank, so obviously getting BoT to approve a big move would be near impossible.
Bottom line: financially it's a boon for football. Exposure wise it's a boon for football. It would be a killer for other sports unless they could get conference affiliation.