Preference: Fame or Riches

[Sammich]

If you were to pose a hypothetical scenario in which team A plays team B, and team A beating team B would give BYU a share of the conference championship, I would gladly accept that scenario for BYU's sake. But when you insert the utes for team A, I start to see red and logic gets muddled. Money with no championship starts sounding like the superior option. I deeply want what's best for BYU, but having the utes in the mix always messes with my definition of what's actually best for BYU.

[hawkwing]

If you were to pose a hypothetical scenario in which team A plays team B, and team A beating team B would give BYU a share of the conference championship, I would gladly accept that scenario for BYU's sake. But when you insert the utes for team A, I start to see red and logic gets muddled. Money with no championship starts sounding like the superior option. I deeply want what's best for BYU, but having the utes in the mix always messes with my definition of what's actually best for BYU.

Further evidence of the vileness of Utah.

I can't help but want TCU to kill the Utes even at the cost of a conference championship.

[Florwood]

Good to see, according to Jay Drew's blog, that Coach Mendenhall agrees with me: fame over fortune, have the Utes beat TCU and BYU beat Utah, for a shared conference championship.

"Make no mistake about it. BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall will be cheering for the University of Utah when the Utes (No. 14 in the BCS standings) take on No. 6 TCU, even though TCU has a much better chance of making it to a BCS bowl game.
The Utes and Horned Frogs meet on Nov. 14, the same day that BYU is playing at New Mexico.
Mendenhall is still holding out hope of getting at least a piece of the conference championship, and the only way that can seemingly happen is if Utah knocks off TCU and then BYU beats Utah in the regular-season finale in Provo."

http://blogs.sltrib.com/byu/index.php