Dammit Mormon Jesus, what about BYU Sports? (link)

[_The Mighty Builder]

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At the time, administrators went to great lengths to put a positive spin on it, praising the chance to align with the other fine faith-based institutions that made up the decidedly mid-major conference. The missions of each school were matched perfectly, they reasoned, almost sounding convincing.

“We’re grateful and honored to accept this invitation from the West Coast Conference,” BYU Pres. Cecil O. Samuelson said then. “We are pleased to be associating with a group of fellow private, faith-based institutions with whom we also share strong academics. We admire the collegiality and stability this conference enjoys and look forward to competing with them.”

If we didn’t know better, we’d darned near believe that BYU would rather be associated with Pepperdine, the University of San Diego and Santa Clara than any of the heathen Pac-12 schools. At least publicly, Rose was forced to put a happy face on his program’s demotion.

At its best, the WCC is not the Mountain West.