One athletic director isn’t a fan of BYU basketball’s quick rise.
After the No. 10 Cougars destroyed Pacific 93-57 to improve to 10-1 on Tuesday night, Tigers athletic director Adam Tschour said there wasn’t a point to playing BYU — not when the Cougars are investing millions into their roster.
“Tough one for Pacific tonight... good scheduling lesson for the future in this money age we’re in,” he wrote on X. “No point in playing this game at all. You’re not even playing a basketball team. Just walking bags of cash.”
Tschour later deleted his post and apologized to BYU.
“My tongue in cheek tweet was not meant to offend. [BYU] is a beast and credit where credit is due,” Tschour wrote. “Simple economic realities of playing any top 10 team is something I think all of Division I has to contend with [while] considering scheduling moving forward.”
BYU was in the West Coast Conference — along with the University of the Pacific — just three years ago.
Now, the budgets of BYU and Pacific look nothing alike.
The Cougars have undergone a complete transformation over the last two years since head coach Kevin Young arrived, in large part due to a transfusion of money into the program.
Most Big 12 basketball rosters cost around $12 million, according to The Athletic. BYU is widely believed to be spending more than that, including paying No. 1 high school prospect AJ Dybantsa several million dollars.
The increased investment has drawn criticism from about the school, which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.