First off, let�s not include the word �snub� in this. A �snub� would be if LSU were to beat Tennessee in the SEC title game resulting in Nebraska getting the right to play #1 Miami in the Rose Bowl over Colorado � the team that drilled the Blackshirts 62-36 just two weeks ago. That would be a �snub�, that would be an injustice. That would be a major flaw in the BCS system. BYU�s so-called travesty is not. Put yourself in the BCS�s shoes for just a moment. You have the choice of inviting 2 of 3 �at-large� teams to your party-- #4 Nebraska, #6 Florida, or #12 (BCS ranking) BYU. Who gets voted off the island, who is the weakest link, who are the two perennial football powers, and who gets exposed as the team playing in a backwater conference who has been loading up on cupcakes all year??? The deliberation on that one takes about two seconds.

Even with Staley, Y does not have a broken leg to stand on...

The problem is that BYU fans (and apparently the Athletic Department itself) tend to take things a tad too personally, always feeling that writers and coaches (who make the rankings) have some sort of vendetta against them. Actually the coaches/writers polls have been kind, ranking Y at no. 8. And lets not forget the polls giving them a very questionable National Championship in 1984 (over Washington). Meanwhile the computer rankings that the BCS uses have been ranking Y at an average of about #15. And computers wouldn't know Mormonism if it hit it smack in the hard drive. And one more thing for BYU fans, ESPN put you on TV five weeks in a row - that's almost Notre Dame like coverage. We're talking to a point of seeing Reno Mahe running bubble-screens in your sleep. See, not everyone is against Y - just whining.

Again, this is not an injustice. If someone like Loyola-Marymount were to go 29-1 in college hoops this year, I guarantee they wouldn't be getting the #1 (or even close to) seed in the West Regional. BYU is a nice team, in fact an enjoyable team to watch, and Gary Crowton does deserve some major Coach of the Year consideration. But that still doesn't hide the fact that they are in a backwater conference who this year played one of the easiest schedules in college pig. Fresno St. would had faced a similar problem had they run the table - and at least they beat the likes of Oregon St. and Colorado early on. Here's some advice for the AD, you want to go to a major bowl, pound the pavement and get into the PAC-10. Nobody's writing articles on whether Illinois or Maryland deserve to be in the BCS, they won their respective conferences and they're in - with zero controversy. If you want to be big boy, then play with the big boys.