This is getting rich.

Utah fan base is really going to enjoy this article.

I know... I know... it is the Trib, but this one is worth savoring in the moment.

Watching hubris melt away to sweat for the Utes is worth some observation.

"If Utah chooses to stay with what believers want to call a united Pac-10 — let’s all laugh at that blind idealism — and then a few more valued league schools jump for more money somewhere else, where does that put them? Scrambling to join the Mountain West?

Should Utah align with Washington and Oregon and Arizona and Arizona State and Stanford and Cal and hope for good friendship, hope that the Pac can somehow replace USC and UCLA, either by adding schools like San Diego State and Fresno State or by standing pat and extending more hope for a decent TV deal with ESPN, or failing that, some other outfit, as they are?

Already there are reports, after comments made by Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren indicating that that hungry and well-positioned league may yet expand again, that Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Cal are being targeted. If they really are, the Utes can sing a requiem for their former conference."