BYU: Football or Basketball School?

[Solon]

I post this in the "other college sports" category because I want a fair shake for both sides.

I sat in on a sport history seminar this week, and one of the assigned books dealt with amateur basketball in the Rocky Mountain region during the 1940s and 1950s. The professor (not LDS, but familiar with LDS culture since he taught at Weber State in the '90s) went off on a little tangent about how basketball is still king throughout the mountain west - at places like New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, and BYU. He then went on about BYU and said, aside from their football successes in the '80s, BYU was and most definitely is a basketball school, going back to the 1960s. I was surprised by his adamant tone. I consider myself a bystander to BYU sports, but I was curious what the faithful would say.