To be very, very clear, I have no true belief that Charlie Strong deserves to be fired. It's just a stance I adopt in the following piece because it plays better.
Deep in the heart of Texas, the stars are big and bright, and the prairie sky wide and high.
It is, in other words, the perfect place to lay things to rest tomorrow -- not one, not two, but three dying that have lived longer lives than they deserved to have.
The first: that seed of bitter disappointment, 11 years a burden. Nothing can truly end the frustration of missing out on Pasadena at Mack Brown's hands, but Saturday, we have the chance to extract some measure of vengeance -- a chance we have waited four years to try again.