Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

You're more than a story.

The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.