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Originally Posted by TroyF
The PAC 10 can spin this anyway they want to. They can say BYU isn't a research institution, that BYU doesn't play on Sunday's and any other nonsense they want to come up with. The reality is they don't want a religious school as part of their makeup. Yet another reason the PAC 10 covets CU over Baylor.
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I think it's more specific than just the Pac-10 doesn't want a private religious school - it's that the Pac-10 doesn't want THE private religious school for the LDS faith given the major philosophical differences between the actions of the church (and BYU) vs. what the people running the Pac-10 schools feel is appropriate.
And while academics are certainly not the primary thing driving this (otherwise the Oklahoma schools wouldn't be considered), the differences what BYU funds for research and how that school operates academically is also part of the equation.