As BYU became a member of the Big 12 on Saturday, athletic director Tom Holmoe said fans should not expect the school's football team to have success right away in its new conference. “It will take time,” Holmoe said.
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe holds a news conference to talk about the school’s entrance into the Big 12 Conference on Saturday, July 1, 2023.BYU has officially entered the Big 12 Conference, and now the work begins to be competitive in the Power Five.
So the natural question is how long is Holmoe willing to give Sitake to turn BYU into a Big 12 winner? “Recruiting is always hard, but [now] you have a little bit of a leg up when you have that title and have an autonomy five conference with you,” Holmoe said. “So that’s helped a lot. It will help because you build depth, bring in maybe stronger personnel. And a variety of personnel so that you are not as one dimensional as you might have appeared to be.
“We have excellent venues, but in this day and age in college athletics, you can see it’s like keeping up with the Joneses,” Holmoe said. “... It’s a great place to play. But that’s a stadium that needs some work.” Outside of football, other venues like the Marriott Center will likely need to be evaluated. It was built in 1971 and does not have suites or modern updates that most arenas do.
There is the argument that facilities are less important than NIL money in recruiting now. Holmoe said that will factor into his decision-making process. With BYU, the athletic department numbers are not publicly available. But does Holmoe have his own number BYU needs to hit to be competitive?
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