...on a sustainable path as an independent. Because it definitely got worse immediately after becoming independent, as recruiting rank went from 30s-50 overall to the 60s-70s during early independence (with one outlier class at 49th)

...it then went down even further 70s-80s during Kalani's earlier years. IMO, had BYU not been included into the B12, we would be in a very bad spot today in terms of our major sports programs.