BYU: A legacy built on crappy SOS

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

First, if you would ever bother paying attention, my contention all along is that SOS, in a vacuum, should not be the be-all, end-all of determining how good or bad a team is.

Agree 100%. Neither should W-L. A combination of the two, i.e. comp ranking should be used.

I get sick and tired of BYU fans slapping around teams like Boise State for rising to prominence using essentially the same scheduling model BYU used to to during their glory years (1979-1984) where they would schedule one quality BCS school and fill the remainder of their OOC schedule with questionable competition. It reeks to high heaven of hypocrisy.

Times are different now, but I see your point.

What the easier schedule allowed them to do as a budding program was to bump up their W-L record, which then snowballed into more national recognition and improved talent.

Not sure about that. That assumes you can trick the public with gaudy records and weak SOS. I don't know if that's true. Could have BYU done the same thing going 8-4, 9-3,10-2, and 11-1 during those years with more wins over BCS schools and a tougher SOS than 9-3,10-2,11-1,12-0 with weak SOS?