The Big 12 and Pac-12 have gone on record recently saying they aren’t interested in expanding at the moment. The SEC, Big Ten and ACC haven’t said such things, but they haven’t said so because saying so would be unnecessary.
Still, in spite of that, BYU would like to join one of them.
The Cougars held their media day this week (the season doesn’t start until September), and AD Tom Holmoe reiterated his desire to join a Power 5 conference.
“I really would love to see our football play at that level, be playing in a P5 conference,” Holmoe told the Associated Press. “I want our players ... in all of our sports to be able to play at the highest level.”
Holmoe said BYU’s policy of not playing on Sundays was not a deal-breaker -- and it never has been for any conference or NCAA Tournament the Cougars have ever competed in.
“I don’t know [if the policy is a deal-breaker]. That’s up to the P5 conferences,” he said. “But I do know that it’s something that we hold very sacred. We have never played on a Sunday and we’re not going to play on a Sunday.”
With no offer on the horizon, new BYU head coach Kalani Sitake has a plan to work around that.
“If your only recruiting pitch is you belong to a Power 5 conference, we’re going to beat you in recruiting,” he told the AP.