LETTER: BYU is the reasonable one
To the editor:
I have been for playing USU, I have been for helping USU out by playing games at your house so you can fund your athletic budget.
BYU played three games in a row on the USU floor just to do that very thing, because obviously there are few doners and USU grads with the kind of money training or lack of desire needed to help. USU did help us out when we needed help many many years ago, I’m old enough to remember those days. However, I’m against USU students attempting to dictate to BYU what and where future games will happen. Especially by undertrained USU students, especially by USU journalism students who always have “all” the answers about any question and none of the experience to implement those answers.
Many times BYU has played football two times in a row at your yard to help you, our poorer cousins to the far North out. USU students seem to have no memory of those gifts. So, in my opinion, BYU cancels the gifts, and plays where we get the most guaranteed money. You see, “know it all journalism students,” here’s the thing, BYU has national and international exposure through internationally recognized graduates, bowl game exposure and BYU television. BYU TV is in 40 million homes just in the USA, more in Canada! BYU TV channel 11-5 will soon be international. BYU could easily sell every ball game they play on a pay for view basis, say, $10 bucks a game, and make millions, why, because “great, well trained, rich” BYU fans are everywhere, BYU could easily go independent and offer very large guarantees to visiting teams and play “every” game at home.
Why don’t we, well because we’re into helping the conference we’re in and struggling schools like USU out. Be honest now, Beyond Logan, just how far does the USU sports influence extend? Why are there so few “sugar daddies” willing to support USU sports? There is a USU grad and his wife in the little town I live in, but they attend BYU games, they even have season tickets, go figure!!!! Fact is, BYU is the USU sugar daddy! And we know, you know it!
Bob Henstra