Letter: BYU athletics

Published: Friday, May 4 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

Steve Young

AugustMiller/Deseret Morning Ne, AugustMiller/Deseret Morning Ne

Summary

Simple math says that BYU will never be dominant in the money sports (football and men's basketball) again. In 1984, BYU was a "pretty good" school academically, and the average ACT score of a BYU student was 19. To get into BYU's Honors Program required an ACT score of 27.

Today, BYU is an academic powerhouse. The average test score today is 27. Today's average Zoobie is a near-genius.

College athletes have to keep a good GPA and stay on track for graduation. That's a lot tougher now than it was in the days of Steve Young and Danny Ainge. Athletes at BYU compete with the geniuses every day for grades just to stay eligible.

Very few top notch schools go to BCS bowl games. The ones that do are much larger names than BYU. Add in the Honor Code, and it's a dead certainty: no BCS for Bronco, and Dave Rose won't be cutting down the NCAA nets. I'm a longtime Cougar fan, but we have to face facts.

Steve Setzer

Springville

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ECR

Burke, VA

Sounds like the letter writer is trying to set up a legitimate excuse for BYU NOT succeeding in the "money" sports.

First, BYU has had some incredibly great success in those sports and I would asked the writer or anyone else to More..

12:29 p.m. May 4, 2012
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VST

Bountiful, UT

@ECR,

Don't forget to include Stanford.

1:20 p.m. May 4, 2012
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Hatch

Sandy, UT

The premise of the article seems to be that athletes as a group are less intelligent. Chris B adds athletes as a group are not religious.

Steve Young has a law degree. Danny Ainge is executive director of the Celtics. Ever hear of Byron More..

11:10 p.m. May 4, 2012
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