“I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘if only you were in a P5.’ Well, now we are,” he said. For football coach Kalani Sitake, a move to a Power Five conference should be a boost to recruiting efforts. This is just a new beginning with opportunities for bigger and better things to keep coming for BYU Athletics.”Ī move to the Big 12 will certainly mean more revenue and greater exposure for BYU. Today’s news about joining the Big 12 is huge, but it’s not a resting point for us. We see it with conference realignment, we’ve seen it with the transfer portal, governance, and we’ve certainly seen it with NIL. “We’ve seen a rapid increase in the rate in which change is happening. “College athletics is changing,” Holmoe said. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brigham Young University football coach Kalani Sitake greets basketball coach Mark Pope as they attend the announcement of BYU's acceptance into the Big 12 conference at a press conference in Provo, Friday, Sept. Now the Cougars, at long last have a Power Five home, among Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia, and the conference’s three other incoming members.
That trickle had turned into a deluge in recent days, with conference officials moving more quickly than anticipated in shoring up membership. News of the conference’s interest in adding new members had trickled out in the months since college football powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma in July announced their intention to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. “Competing on the Big 12 stage provides more opportunities for our student-athletes. “We have said all along that the decisions about where we play, who we play and what conference we compete in are about the student-athletes first and how we can help them achieve excellence,” Holmoe said in a statement. Welcome to the /RHKqLGAElp- BYU Cougars September 10, 2021įriday’s announcement marked the end of a decade-plus search for BYU. We will be a force to be reckoned with in a wide variety of Olympic sports.”Ĭougar Nation. We will arguably be the best basketball conference in the country. In adding four members that we have, we will gain as much as we could possibly gain on the football field. “That certainly is emblematic of BYU and the history and success that the university has had and that the athletics program has had. “We have attempted to add the very best - and you can put it in a recruiting, the very best athletes that we possibly could,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowslby said. The board, as expected, also voted to extend membership to Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston. The Big 12 Conference Board of Directors on Friday morning voted unanimously to extend an invitation to BYU. “It’s been a long time coming and here we are.” “Congratulations, Cougar Nation,” BYU athletics director Tom Holmoe said during a Friday morning news conference on campus. After weeks of anticipation, the wait is finally over.
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