I listened to the legislator Dan McCay on a radio interview this morning. I was able to listen from the beginning for about a half hour. I came away from it thinking it has nothing to do with BYU. It has to do with the lack of scheduling STATE schools. The point was brought up, Since becoming a P5, why are we bringing in teams like Idaho St, Northern Colorado, Montana St instead of Weber or SUU for football. Same with basketball, why all these various little directional schools being paid to come play us and not STATE schools? I’m stressing STATE because it was stressed many times by Rep. Dan McCay.
I’m not defending the guy, I’m a card-carrying BYU hater who never wants to play them in any sport. I came away from the interview thinking that we will be seeing much less of BYU in the future if the legislature has its way because STATE schools will be filling more OOC slots.
With respect to football, I feel certain that will never see Utah St and BYU on the schedule the same year. Utah St, like BYU is a tough game and there does not seem to be much pushback when Chris Hill says he does not want to play two intense in-state rivalry games the same year.
Based on what I heard in this interview, I feel it is not coming from BYU and it’s probably going to mean less games with BYU in the future (YAY.)
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