The Cougars are out of independence’s desert and on the national stage again. BYU
Tom Holmoe and Kalani Sitake at BYU football media day in Provo on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.When the internal rumblings started that Monday, Sept. 6, 2021, the BYU athletics director’s closest confidants began getting their hopes up. After so many near misses in the past, this time they felt a Big 12 invite could be imminent.“All we wanted was to get Tom ... to shoot a quick video putting on that [BYU] hat and say, ‘Welcome to the Big 12,’” associate athletics director David Almodova recalled.
The presentation BYU gave ended up being 90 pages of material. It highlighted BYU football’s wins — more than 300 of them — dating back to when LaVell Edwards roamed the sidelines. When the contingent left Dallas, everyone felt good. Nearly a dozen schools made the pitch in person,There were few Texas schools, including SMU, Rice and Houston. The out-of-state candidates included UCF, Cincinnati, Tulane and South Florida.
At the time people speculated that it was because of location. BYU was located more 1,000 miles away from the heartland of the conference in Texas. BYU quarterback Sol-Jay Maiava-Peters cheers as the team takes the field before an NCAA college football game against Arizona Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, in Las Vegas. The bombshell that BYU had been banking on came in July 2021, when Texas and Oklahoma announced they would leave the Big 12 for the SEC.
“We kind of looked at it and said, ‘Hey, this is a home game for us.’ Even though it wasn’t, we told our staff internally, ‘This is home game. We’re taking everyone down there to put on an event,’ ” Almodova said. Meanwhile, BYU staffers updated the presentation from 2016 with more numbers. It got up to 120 pages. But they never gave it.Many of the problems that were publicly stated the first time didn’t come up, including the concerns about LGBTQ+ rights on campus.
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