BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

What if it’s Sunday AM Central time wherever but still Saturday PM in Provo? Can they play for the extra hour?

 

Also interesting.
Some followers of Judaism and Islam are observant of obligations relative to sunset or sunrise in their physical locales and act accordingly. I am curious re: the specs of the Sunday sports prohibition in the LDS faith.

 

I thought that BYU has played in NCAA tournaments where they faced a possible Sunday game. I don't think the school has an absolute prohibition. Is that true?

 

Looking at their ncaa tournament history, I see no Sunday games. None on Fridays either.

 

No. The NCAA won't schedule BYU with any chance of them playing on Sunday.

 

League baseball was always Thurs-Saturday series when BYU was involved, Fri-Sun for everyone else.

 

It's a religious exception. Deal with it. Don't forget those 24 year old ballplayers who have been out on a mission. Grown-ass men.

 

I’m thinking Memphis, as a bridge to UCF, Cincinnati and West Virginia.

 

Also true for Christians who observe a traditional calendar (Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, etc.). That's why Catholics can have a Saturday evening mass that counts as their Sunday service.

I don't know if the LDS follows that practice, though.

 

It's highly encouraged not to play on Sunday, but it is voluntary. LDS pro athletes play on Sunday. There are LDS baseball, volleyball, soccer, basketball, etc. athletes at other schools who play on Sundays. My son had some LDS club soccer teammates who also played on Sunday.

BYU made an institutional choice. Schools it plays against, and conferences it has belonged to, decided BYU was worth making a reasonable (if sometimes inconvenient, and sometimes beneficial to BYU) exception for.

Never wanted them in the Pac-10/12 and now that won't ever happen.

 

Sure. Memphis is first, with most likely SMU (if the Texas schools don't blackball them) or maybe Tulsa. Then the cross country reach for Boise and SDSU. AAC would like Boise, I think, but it's just too far and they think (or have been told) that they'll be in the next B12 group.

 

The Big 12 is in no position to blackball anyone who can make them money. Houston was a moneymaker so it got called up. The same will happen to SMU if the money is there. They can’t make personal decisions anyone. They need to follow the money at every turn.

Memphis as a travel partner for UCF and Boise State as a travel partner for BYU makes sense, and I’m glad WVU has Cincy nearby. Any expansion candidates beyond Memphis and Boise State seem jumbled, with no clear front runners.

i don’t see Tulsa as an option with Oklahoma State already providing that market. Tulane would make more sense. I would also look at USF to provide schools more access to Florida recruits.