Four months later, four months after they sent this entire escapade into motion by firing a coach midseason when nobody fires a coach, four months after a process that was viewed nationally as disjointed and unbecoming to those running it, UNLV officials can wake up today with this truth: The past 24 hours is not their fault.
Finally.
Something.
You are about to enter another dimension, all right, not only of sight and sound, but of mind and very large athletic department budgets and, in the curious case of Chris Beard, a massive pull at heartstrings.