... Pac-10 was going to land big-fish Texas and its entourage) that I wrote that the top teams in the Mountain West , namely BYU, Utah, TCU, and Boise State should flee their conference, its parasitic bottom-half, and its monumentally bad TV deal. 

Well, it turns out Texas was just a big tease, and the Pac-10 instead added the University of Utah to its exclusive west-coast club.

Utah made perfect sense to the Pac-10, as it's a top-tier research school, brings a new top-30 TV market to the conference, has shown success in its major athletic programs, and most importantly, isn't a private religious school. 
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