BYU football: Y. ponders options to bolster national profile

The eight members (Gonzaga, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Clara) of the WCC have at least one thing in common with BYU — all are private, religiously affiliated institutions. The WCC schools reside in the Southern and northern California, Oregon and Washington markets.

WCC commissioner Jamie Zaninovich told ESPN that the league would be interested in BYU becoming a member.

The WCC does not play football. It plays six men's sports (baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis) and seven women's sports (basketball, cross country, golf, rowing, soccer, tennis, volleyball). However, the WCC does not have softball, swimming, diving or track — sports that BYU competes in.

As for any announcement about what BYU's next move is, Holmoe said it will come "when we have something definitive to say. I can tell you something today, but it might change in an hour. I'd prefer not to say something that we'd like to happen that looks good today that an hour later didn't happen. If you read the newspapers today, a lot of things happened yesterday and last night. Anything I could have said yesterday would not have been accurate today. Anything I tell you today might not be accurate tomorrow. When is it going to be done? It'll be done when it's done. I'm not trying to be a jerk about it. If you're in business, the deal gets done when it gets done."

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