Heck - take the socio-political angle out of it and look at other arrangements. Putting aside Liberty, a whole bunch of Pac-12 schools have played BYU in non-conference games but would never invite them to be a part of the Pac-12 for similar reasons. ![]() A non-conference game is a business transaction. ![]() THAT is what I find strange.Įh - I think the marriage analogy is quite applicable. where we will appear on TV playing together and make money together. (these are athletic conferences after all.) but it's okay (when there are more than 120 teams in FBS to choose from) to invite them to our stadium, or visit theirs. My point is, a team is SO distasteful (for the reasons you imply) that we cannot be in a conference with them. I would suggest your marriage analogy is somewhat flawed. If people can’t see that or don’t want to believe it, then I don’t know what to tell you. However, I think it’s pretty objective that the other university presidents (particularly at the top levels of academia, which includes much of the P5) think that way, whether one personally agrees with them or not. Whether one personally believes that Liberty *should* be radioactive on that basis is a subjective debate. Hence, it took C-USA needing warm FBS bodies simply to survive before Liberty ever received an FBS invite despite all of their financial resources. And no matter what the circumstances, they are in an FBS conference.Ī non-conference game is going out to lunch with someone that is one-and-done.Ī conference invitation is *marrying* someone where resources are shared, lives are intertwined, etc.Īnd do we really need to spell out the reasons here why Liberty has been radioactive for conference realignment purposes? I guess I’ll just have to state the obvious: the vast majority of university presidents completely abhor Liberty’s social and political positions and the use of the school’s resources to advance such positions. but not share a conference with them? THAT is what I find 'strange'. This shouldn't happen if you are 'radioactive'. They have made and won bowl games having only recently moved to FBS from FCS. ![]() 'So radioactive' is such a vague, subject to individual interpretation, statement.įBS schools will play them. The power conferences (or more importantly, the administrators of the schools that are members of those power conferences) want nothing to do with Liberty no matter how much money and resources they might have. It took the near-death of C-USA for Liberty to find a home in *any* FBS conference because they’re considered to be so radioactive.
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