Conducting an autopsy on the parting of ways with Sigi Schmid isn't easy. Unlike a bullet wound or a drug overdose, the causes appear to be many. While we may never be privy to the full story, recent interviews, post-mortem articles, and contextual inferences provide a scattered trail of breadcrumbs with which to slowly navigate down a path of better understanding.
Unless you're a grizzly bear that overslept the past several months and are just now emerging from your now sauna-like cave, you've probably heard that Sigi Schmid is no longer the head coach of Seattle Sounders FC.