ASU Sun Devils Officially Dumped from BYU Football Schedule
Sorry, Arizona State fans. But BYU does not want to play your Sun Devils in football next year. Are the Cougars scared? Or are they simply getting a better game?
OK, fine. BYU’s not really ducking the Sun Devils. But they’re definitely pulling out of their commitment to visit Sun Devil Stadium next fall.
The rumor mill got going when Louisana Monroe released a 2009 football schedule that included a game at ASU. But our non-conference schedule was already maxed out with Idaho State, BYU and @Georgia.
Some said BYU was priming for a BCS run by adding a higher profile game against Oklahoma. Others were saying ASU was trying to lighten up after a tough season.
It appears now that it was the latter. BYU released its schedule today and ASU was nowhere to be found. Instead, BYU listed non-conference games against Florida State, Tulane, Utah State and … wait for it … Oklahoma!
Here’s hoping ASU reaps some sort of financial windfall from the broken contract. We can’t imagine season ticket holders will get a piece of it as they watch a sexy match-up with BYU replaced with a beatdown of Louisiana Monroe.
Hey, at least we get to see Idaho State visit Tempe.
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Although not as sexy, I think we are better off having ULM and Idaho St. on our schedule prior to Georgia as opposed to having BYU in the equation. After all, we will have a green QB and will be retooling an ineffective running game. I would rather put those two things to the test against those two teams vs. throwing our new troops into fire and possibly flush the rest of the season down the toilet with a really bad loss to BYU.
This sucks.
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