I said Dixon was 180 degrees apart from Sully and didn’t think he would ever do something like let his disappointment become a barrier
Personally I think this is over and turned out the way it was supposed to
It would have been instructive for an author/"journalist"/columnist to, perhaps, write a piece that illustrated the similarities and differences to the two situations, wouldn't it? Lay out the reasons as to why the school made the decisions they did, why the programs doing the wooing did what they did, why the two different coaches made the decisions they did. IN this way, the gentle reader might be able to understand more about the sometimes mysterious world of sports contracts and the jockeying that goes on around there.
But, in doing so, the mythical writer would be giving up two important powers: 1.) The ability to act as a High Priest of some mysterious religion, able to divine the future or fortune via rummaging through a pig's insides. The High Priest only reveals the smallest amount of wisdom to the cowed rabble, so that, in their hunger, they come back for more every day. If he reveals too much, then the rabble might divine that the High Priest, is full of it, much like the pig's insides he uses as an interesting prop... 2.) In the case of the swine we are discussing, he would pass on the opportunity to take the 2x4 to TCU yet again. Why write a piece that has the possibility of making the hometown University look good, even competent at their jobs, when you can do your level best to portray them as backstabbing thieves and generally unsavory? Scandal gets clicks. Nobody cares about an institution that does the "right thing." Writing boring stuff like that gets you fired...