Dick Harmon: BYU football: Cougars lucked out by passing on the crumbling Big East

By Dick Harmon, Deseret News

Published: Friday, Dec. 14 2012 12:05 p.m. MST

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More than a year after BYU failed to join a movement to save the Big East, continued defections have decimated that once proud BCS league and the Cougar decision appears wise.

This is the mutinous buccaneer era of college sports. Everybody’s looking for buried treasure, as if that will solve everything.

You can’t blame SDSU and Boise State for trying.

And you can understand why DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. Johns, Seton Hall and Villanova — pillars of one of the finest basketball leagues the NCAA has ever known — are looking for a new ride outside the Big East.

This is today’s path for America's hallowed institutions of higher learning that just happen to dabble in games.

In a way, it's all kind of embarrassing what we've done.

Dick Harmon, Deseret News sports columnist, can be found on Twitter as Harmonwrites and can be contacted at dharmon@desnews.com.

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Duckhunter

Highland, UT

@LindonMan

howie is not "new around here. He simply slunk away in shame under his rock while this latest football season was underway. Now that it is over he has reappeared since he appears to have gotten over the humiliation of 5-7, More..

1:31 p.m. Dec. 14, 2012
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Bluto

Sandy, UT

@Howard S.

Howard, who are you trying to convince, us or yourself?
Too many posts Howie.
Time to dial it back a notch.

You just look and sound desperate at this point.

BYU has been safe on the high ground More..