No NBA talent...? Bro, Kerry Kittles and Tim Thomas played on the same Nova team in the 90's. Literally watched ten more seconds and feel the need to discredit my own post.
This was 40 years ago, and the point of the video was to talk about how BYU's national championship changed college football. It was decided the way it was back then, and so people can complain all they want, but BYU did nothing wrong. They won it fair and square... because the national champion was selected subjectively. Now, it's more objective thanks to BYU. The playoff is something that should have happened decades ago. Would have loved to see BYU in a playoff back then, and just like March Madness we'll get to see that going forward. I used to have a problem with the way college football did things. Not anymore. The landscape has naturally changed to where power conferences include the cream of the crop, and BYU is now in one of those conferences. Nothing wrong with it imo.
Beginning with "The Bowl Alliance" a monopoly of schools representing the major media markets have wrested control of the GAME from the NCAA and by concentrating their efforts on controlling the REVENUE (follow the money) have destroyed the competitive landscape for all collegiate sports.
I think this is mostly fair, though I do think it stops short of the full story when talking about the aftermath of declining the tv deal. Once the Big East declined the deal with ESPN, ESPN helped orchestrate the league’s demise by acting as a pseudo advisor to the ACC and encouraging the ACC to invite Big East teams in 2011.
Memphis (Memphis State) was a very strong program in the 60s and 70s as well playing a powerful schedule against the SEC, Southwest conference and Major Independents. Check some of those schedules especially in the 70s. They played Florida State, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Cincinnatti, Houston, Louisville. Most of these every year.
With Seattle and Grand Canyon being picked up by the West Coast Conference, and now Stephen F. Austin moving back to Southland effective this year, it is one major realignment shift away from possibly going extinct altogether. And it's not unrealistic if the Summit League decides to be independent of the MVFC and pick up all the Utah schools (Southern Utah, Utah Tech, Utah Valley).
I sometimes think that BYU 's '84 nat'l title was akin to, say, Charlie Chaplin's '72 Oscar For Lifetime Achievement. Neither had ever won the award before, each certainly had a bevy of great previous performances worthy of such laurels, and both, in their own way, were controversial /unorthodox enough to ensure that the brass ring would unlikely come their way, if the powers that be had their way. But talented they each were, such that the breadth and magnitude of their achievement could not be ignored. It was only a matter of time ... 🏉 🎥
5:35 wait this is wrong. We down get a bowl game in 2016. It was New Mexico in Albuquerque. It was a defining moment for us. Literally wearing the jacket.
As a season ti key holder since 2014, saying “turn around” is funny. No diss or anything but I remember saying to my extended family (Baylor fans, me as well, but when UTSA came around they became the #1) in 2015/16 they are something special. People forget the powerhouseLA tech, used to be up until 2017. UTSA played with so many goood teams early on and hung in. They should have beat ASU. It wasn’t a turn around, traylor boosted our momentum.
I will always say it should be the conference champions and or undefeated teams should get to be in the playoffs especially now with it being 12 teams, OR the playoffs 25 teas
Ever since coach Rick Neuhiesel became the coach ucla program went crashing down! UCLA needs a rebuild inside and out! UCLA golden years were back in the early 2000’s and late 1990’s
With Fritz gone, I'm very curious to see how we'll do this year. But Jon Sumrall seems like a great coach and we did AMAZING in the transfer portal. I'm so excited to attend the games this year.
In the post Oklahoma vs. NCAA world, there was no way the Big East could have held onto their FBS football members without adding football to their conference. Syracuse, Pitt, and BC would have been gone by the mid 90s. Adding football allowed them to hold onto those schools for 10 to 20 years longer than they otherwise would have.
Born and raised in Syracuse. My dad was a student at SU when I was a kid. I went to DePaul. The demise of the Big East is soul crushing. I’ve never liked anything about the ACC.
I have no memory of mass UC fan (you said everyone) regret at moving from the CUSA to Big East. Huggins and Bob Goin went where the money was. I know Dantonio would not have taken the football job if UC had stayed in the CUSA. @@N0thing2C_here
