BYU to WCC in 2010-11

by **DaTruRochin** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:00 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5517305

Holy &*%$! It's actually happening!

I don't think you can emphasize how big adding a school with such a high quality athletics program to the conference actually is...

by PurpleGeezer on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:10 pm

I'm trying to wrap my head around this....

by **PilotNut** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:20 pm

OMG! Seriously?! WOW! I can't believe this is actually happening...

Shocked

by pilotram on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:20 pm

Barf.

by **PilotNut** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:21 pm

And confirmation from the WCC:

BYU to Join the WCC beginning in 2011

SAN BRUNO, Calif. --- The West Coast Conference is pleased to announce that Brigham Young University has formally accepted an invitation to join the WCC with competition to begin in the 2011-12 academic year.

BYU, which will become an independent in FBS football, will compete in the West Coast Conference in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s golf, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis and women’s volleyball.

Further information will be provided at a press conference scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 1 at LaVell Edwards Stadium on the Brigham Young University campus beginning at noon (MT). Attendance at the press conference is available only to credentialed members of the media.

The West Coast Conference and member institutions will have no further comment until the press conference Wednesday.

The press conference will be broadcast live on BYUtv. Viewing options for BYUtv include the basic tier on both Dish Network (channel 9304) and DirecTV (channel 374) and 500 cable systems nationwide. The press conference will be streamed live on BYUtv at http://www.byu.tv (first-time users will need to complete a free online registration form).

by **DaTruRochin** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:27 pm

pilotram wrote:Barf.

Think of it as another team to draw our ire... I mean it isn't healthy to JUST loathe the Zags, right?

by PurpleGeezer on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:29 pm

For soccer and Basketball, this could be really great.

Basketball especially. It's a real shakeup in terms of level of play.

by **DaTruRochin** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:30 pm

Geezaldinho wrote:For soccer and Basketball, this could be really great.

Indeed, and their XC isn't to shabby either... We might not be able to get away with running a freshman team at the conference meet anymore...

by **PilotNut** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:37 pm

Denver has to be awfully excited about this, as well.... will we go to 10 instead of 9?!

by **DaTruRochin** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:39 pm

Fortunately we already have a signature brew to drink on game days:
http://www.wasatchbeers.com/polygporter.html

Too far? Eh, I don't care...

by PurplePrideTrumpet on Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:40 pm

Geezaldinho wrote:For soccer and Basketball, this could be really great.

Basketball especially. It's a real shakeup in terms of level of play.

Remember the crowd we got when BYU came about 3 years ago?

They took over the Chiles Center like Gonzaga does. Fortunately Rev and the team are seeing to it more and more of the seats are taken by Pilot fans.

by Puckswami on Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:55 pm

PilotNut wrote:Denver has to be awfully excited about this, as well.... will we go to 10 instead of 9?!

As a Denver fan. we are hopeful that the Pioneers can also join the WCC as BYU's travel partner.

Denver is private with 5,000 undergrads and 5,000 grad students. While we may not fit the perfect geographic profile of a Pacific or Seattle, we do bring a higher level academic profile with #84 nationally in USNWR, a new TV market, new facilities, the top rated non-football athletic dept in the country according to NACDA points, and a $24 million athletics budget. Men's Basketball is up and coming and will be a Sun Belt contender this year, and I expect a hoops RPI between 100-125. DU has won 28 NCAA titles (albeit 7 in hockey and 21 in skiing), where both sports are always national powers, and mens and womens lacrosse are also NCAA top 20 programs M soccer and W soccer, golf and tennis are NCAA tourney calibre programs. DU is NCAA tourney worthy in golf, tennis, and respectable in volleyball and swimming.

by PurplePrideTrumpet on Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:56 pm

Add--Denver does make sense as a travel partner for BYU.

by **up7587** on Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:02 pm

Geezaldinho wrote:I'm trying to wrap my head around this....

I don't get it. BYU has 29,000 students, something like 4 times the largest WCC school. Doesn't seem like a good fit.

And I am still trying to find which part of Utah touches the west coast!

by pilotram on Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:20 pm

PurplePrideTrumpet wrote:
Remember the crowd we got when BYU came about 3 years ago?

And just think, that was only one family.

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