BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe addressed a class of about 250 campus visitors on Wednesday as part of his annual Education Week appearance. An attendee asked Holmoe to talk about the firestorm on sports talk radio stations Tuesday that caused University of Utah athletic director Chris Hill to release a statement acknowledging that BYU and Utah had agreed to extend their football series contract to games in 2019 and 2020. Holmoe said he was “cool” with the fact Hill prematurely unveiled the contract before it had been signed by both parties and “totally understands” why he did it. Most of the questions were related to football — the Cougars open the 2015 season on Sept. 5 at Nebraska — and BYU’s unique place in the current college sports landscape as a football independent and member of the West Coast Conference in almost all of its other sports. – SLTRIB, Read More