it's the one common idea in every honest assessment of their program's plight.

I've said for years that having grown up outside of the mountain west, I'd never even heard of the Utes. They land in a big boy conference, make a run or two and suddenly they think they're among the blue bloods. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is looking admirably at this little plucky team out west that's better than Boise state and in a big boy conference. Year after year they get pre-season hype and year after year it just doesn't materialize.