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Here's the thing. BYU can get a better deal than they have. So yes I'm disappointed (once again) with Tom Holmoe. BYU wants to be P5. It isn't too much to ask of Holmoe to get a better bowl setup. I think he should be able to negotiate a deal with ESPN to ensure (or at least give preference to BYU o...

Do away with the conference championships and include that week in the tournament. I suppose you can keep the conference championships but teams shouldn't be able to qualify without playing on conference championship weekend. Clemson, UCF, and UW should all have been playing better teams on CCG week...

I'd be happier than if they hired say the Kansas or Rutgers or Louisville or Oregon St DC.

Successful head coaches from lower division schools actually pretty well compared to a coordinator from a P5 school.

I agree. That's why a backup option with the cheez it or redbox would be a reasonable alternative to a promise to get to play a P5 opponent. If BYU doesn't get the backup spot they're a free agent. As things are now BYU gets the worst possible bowl game. What leverage does BYU have? Come on who's b...

Holmoe had a chance to sign a backup agreement. He didn't do it. That ended up hurting BYU. How do you know this? Holmoe said so. It’s a double edged sword. If BYU had beaten Utah and Boise State, we would have been 8-4, probably ranked and we would have been stuck with a lame pre-arranged bowl opt...

ABYUFAN wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:00 pm

jvquarterback wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:53 pm

Holmoe had a chance to sign a backup agreement. He didn't do it. That ended up hurting BYU.

How do you know this?

Holmoe said so.

Even without the ESPN agreement BYU would have been the clear choice of available options from the remaining teams. So Holmoe's agreement with ESPN isn't worth anything (unless as I've said before BYU got a better payout than what's in the contract for the MAC and MWC). Having ESPN promise a bowl is...

BYU beat two P5 teams. That's all it takes in the SEC to make a bowl game. Holmoe got beat by the MWC comissioner who got his team to a better bowl than the BYU AD. That's all that matters. And that's par for the course. Holmoe needs to protect BYU in bowl game match ups. If we had had a backup agr...

BYU beat two P5 teams. That's all it takes in the SEC to make a bowl game. Holmoe got beat by the MWC comissioner who got his team to a better bowl than the BYU AD. That's all that matters. And that's par for the course. Holmoe needs to protect BYU in bowl game match ups. If we had had a backup agre...

BYU isn't G5. Holmoe should seek a clause in the bowl contract that if a spot is available in a P5 v P5 bowl BYU gets the spot. The MWC has two such relationships with the cheez it and redbox bowls. The AAC has an arrangement with the independence bowl and they are playing duke there. Even the Mac h...