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It is very difficult for athletic departments at universities in the United States to be excellent at numerous sports, particularly both football and men\u2019s basketball \u2014 generally the sports that make money at schools.<\/p>\n

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As such, oftentimes schools will focus on one at the expense of the other, and thus will get labeled by the public as a \u201cfootball school\u201d or a \u201cbasketball school.\u201d Utah, for example, would certainly be identified as a football school right now, as that program is much stronger than its men\u2019s basketball program. In the late 1990s, it was the other way around.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, BYU has been very good in both major sports, which leads to the question: Is BYU a football school or a men\u2019s basketball school?<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, The Athletic\u2019s Joe Rexrode wrote a piece in which he labeled each Power Four school. Most he labeled either a football or men\u2019s basketball school, although some he identified with other sports (it could probably be argued that Utah is as much a ski school as anything else, as it has won seven national championships since 2017).<\/p>\n

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Rexrode identified BYU as a football school, writing, \u201cIf this weren\u2019t a football school, would Kalani Sitake have been able to turn down Penn State late last year? He has things set up for consistent success like they haven\u2019t seen in Provo since the height of the LaVell Edwards era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of Utah being a football school, Rexrode wrote, \u201cRick Majerus, Keith Van Horn and Andre Miller may have pushed a different sport to the forefront long ago, but Urban Meyer\u2019s brief stint and Kyle Whittingham\u2019s expansive follow-up left no doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rexrode also added that the BYU-Utah rivalry \u201cis among the sport\u2019s fiercest.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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