Why I am tired of the talk of Utah as a Rival.

[Highlander27]

what makes you think they won't continue to improve. They already had good fan support and were successful with the pathetic financial support the Mountain West provides. Now that they have the support of the PAC:12 if they do this smartly they can build a great program.

Just don't see it happening. On another board a guy was giving me run for having a better rivals ranked class. Just had to laugh. They're coming off a bowl win bragging about a manufactured ranking which was barely ahead of ours coming out of a 3-10 season. If Utah isn't smart enough to see where this is going, it's probably too late for them.

[sackman]

Utah will have a much harder time competing on a regular basis in the Pac 12 than it did in the MWC. That's just a fact. I suspect they're fine with that when they look at the big gob of money they're raking in.

[Shldr2Shldr]

Utah will eventually be competitive. Because of their recent successes as BCS busters, their fan base expects winning. It will take a while to replenish their roster with players capable of competing in the Pac-12 week in and week out. I think their school offers about the same type of things to recruits as CU does. Also they have been relevant in football alot more recently than we have.

I do not expect them to become USC but I think they will be a contender a lot sooner than most give them credit for.

[Mick Ronson]

it could happen....beating them on their home turf is a nice first step.

we lost a lot 'rival' truck when we left the old Big 8 teams behind. good for us, but not a lot of history yet as there was with NU, OU, or even MU which was a bit of an understated rivalry with McCartney and Barney being MU guys. both wearing black and gold. or us wearing black and gold and them wearing black and hot dog mustard.

[RedDirtBuff]

I don't give a ratz-azz about having a conference "rival".


I want CU to be so good that every other team in the conference hates us. That's the goal.

[jahbrahakala]

F the JUtes, I don't like 'em;

[UDub]

USC is the measuring stick for all in the PAC 12 to measure themselves by, this will be the annual game that I will look forward to the most, when we beat them we will know that we really have a special team that given year...

"a really special team" I suppose our 5-7 and 7-6 2009/2010 teams were "really special" then?

[Darth Snow]

"a really special team" I suppose our 5-7 and 7-6 2009/2010 teams were "really special" then?

Heads up. Start being funny, fast.

[sackman]

Heads up. Start being funny, fast.

Oh, he's plenty funny. Just not in the way he thinks.

[The Guest]

Oh, he's plenty funny. Just not in the way he thinks.

Funny haha or funny queer?

[ScotchBuff]

Utah will develop into a rival again, I have no doubt. They'll never be the measuring stick the fuskers were.

[Darth Snow]

Utah will develop into a rival again, I have no doubt. They'll never be the measuring stick the fuskers were.

somewhere in between CSU and kNU, methinks.