(07-22-2021 02:07 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(07-22-2021 12:42 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(07-22-2021 12:27 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  BYU is a good example. They check a lot of boxes that the Pac-12 likes but their honor code, support for Prop. 8 in 2008 and no Sunday play is a big factor.

Playing on Sunday is what will keep BYU out of any major conference. BYU isn't bigger than any one conference. Unless the elders that actually run the school agree to play on Sunday then BYU will continue to get shutout.

BYU could have probably hitched a ride to the PAC whatever when they picked up Utah and Colorado in 2011 if some of their ridiculous rules didn't apply.

I don't know why any of their rules would be considered ridiculous except to non LDS, in which case, any religious behavior could be considered ridiculous to non members of any group. They don't seem to be hurting for students. And BYU is about a lot more than athletics. Sure, it would be good to be in a big conference in a lot of ways, but they aren't going to sell out to be in the Pac 12. There is virtually nothing they can't achieve as a football Indy in the WCC.

The Mormon church is a cult plain and simple. Joseph Smith was a NYC con man who was caught having sex outside of his marriage and conjured up some elaborate hoax. The book of Mormon is worse than what Scientolgist's and JWs believe (Gold Plates no one has ever seen that had alien writing and only Smith could translate them, Native Ameican Indian's were actually Jews in America in ancient times (LDS had to backtrack that when it was actually proved false) is just crazy talk). Also until 1978 black people were prevented from joining. The CES Letter lays out and debunks most everything wrong with the book of Mormon.

I also don't believe a woman spontaneously got pregnant without having intercourse, a man walked on water, fed 1000 people with a loaf of bread and was murdered and came back to life either. Might as well believe the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are real too.