Jon Wilner is a writer I have enjoyed reading throughout the summer. He writes for the Mercury News and covers many of the college and professional teams in the Bay area. He's written a few pieces on BYU since their decision will ultimately affect the WAC (and SJSU). He suggests that the Cougars 2011 schedule would be tough to fill independently for 2011 without WAC teams, but that they might be able to do it in 2012 or 2013. He suggests that maybe the Cougars will try to sit in the MWC for a couple more years while they get their schedules ready for independence for a few years down the road.
My biggest and absolute self-perplexing question in all of this is: What is BYU going to do with all of their Olympic sports? The WAC just isn't an option at this point, and the WCC will still require a cut of many of BYU's current sports. I still maintain I'll be shocked if BYU sacrifices Olympic sports for football indepenence.
We'll see what happens.
