Scheduling BYU Considered a Big Deal
Apparently nobody alerted the athletic department at West Virginia, so here goes: BYU football isn’t great right now.
Or hasn’t anyone been checking the scores?
The Cougars are 1-3 in football and ranked 95th in passing offense, 98th in total offense and 102nd in total defense.
But a column in the Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail quotes Mountaineer deputy athletic director Mike Parsons saying that landing BYU in 2016 is a big deal.
Said Parsons: “It’s a great opportunity for us. It’s a name, quality opponent, a marquee game, in an area in which we have a lot of alumni presence. We talked off and on about various scenarios, but BYU is a very good opponent, a national name.”
So despite BYU’s struggles this year, some important people still consider the Cougars a national player.
It’s hard to predict what sort of program BYU will be in six years. Jake Heaps will be gone and the Cougars will have been independent for five years – unless they join a conference in the meantime. How good or bad the Cougars will be is debatable.
Still, inking this agreement with the Mountaineers is promising for BYU. It shows good programs are interested in playing BYU and that the Cougars should continue to be able to schedule at least some big name opponents, well in the future.
The way thinks are looking in 2010, scheduling the games will be a lot easier than winning them.