There's a funny thing about news.

It happens. When it happens, I feel a responsibility as the executive editor of this website to write about it. Sometimes that news is positive. Sometimes that news is negative. Rarely do I attempt to inject my own voice into negative situations except when I become severly frustrated and/or disillusioned. Rarely do I feel the need to inject my voice into any of my writing.

The Texas athletics department is dysfunctional. Has been in a lot of ways for a long time. Texas has lost a lot of football games in the last six years. Coaches have been fired and recruiting classes have failed after arriving and players have decommitted and recruiting classes have been disappointing upon arrival. Those are a lot of negative things. Writing about those things sometimes makes people feel like everything I'm writing is negative.

I'm sorry for all the people who can't distinguish a negative event from a negative tone. I truly am. One is a thing, the other is an opinion.

A happy thing happened last Friday. Texas salvaged an offensive coordinator hire and a recruiting weekend. I wrote about those things! The new offensive line hire revealed a kindly, gentler side of coaching that should be more effective than the previous position coach. I wrote about that thing! It was positive! Because the thing was positive!

When Texas beat Oklahoma, that was a positive thing! So I wrote about the positive thing! When Texas beat Baylor, that was a positive thing! I wrote about that positive thing! I was happy! For weeks in the case of the Oklahoma game! My job is easier when the things are good!

I wrote about Andrew Jones committing. The tone was positive, because it was positive! My co-writer, Cody Daniel, wrote a piece about how positive it was that Jones committed that I approved. Because the thing was positive!

Confirmation bias is a bitch. People like to indulge in it when they don't have sunshine forcibly injected into their nether regions and all they want to do is feel safe and good about things. Sometimes reality doesn't create scenarios where everything is sunshine and rainbows.

"Oh, no! Now it's Wescott's fault that everything is not sunshine and rainbows and now I'm scared and I don't feel good about the things and I need my mom."

I'm sorry. I live this every day and have since I became full time right during the middle of the worst historical stretch of Texas football in terms of a six-year winning percentage. It's not fun living that every day! More bad things do not make me happy!

Good things make me happy! Bad things make me sad! But the things are things!

For some reason, I apparently have to say this -- I support Charlie Strong. I want him to be successful. I like him as a person and what he stands for. I want Texas to be successful! Shocker! I want to write about things that are positive. When things slow down enough that I can spend time to deeply review the film of Tulsa, I will write positive things about Gilbert's hire! Because the thing is positive! I like his offense! I think Texas can be effective with it! Yay! This is not sarcastic!

Hopefully, Texas will finish the 2016 recruiting class strong because Strong has said he needs it! If that happens, I will be happy! And I will write positive things! Like I wrote positive things last National Signing Day 2015! Go back and look, they were positive! Because the things were positive!

If, for some reason, I felt that Strong was not the right person for the job, I would say, "Strong is not the right person for the job!" It would be obvious and clear and it's something that I could say if I wanted. Instead, Strong is, by various accounts, not being supported and this is a bad thing! My personal opinion is that this is a bad thing! It's mean and not fair!

But with all that reportedly being the case, people who read BON deserve to know. So I wrote about it! I didn't feel the need to explicitly say, this ia bad thing, because the really bad terribleness of it seemed so self-evident.

If you can't understand what I'm saying right now and differentiate between what is a thing and what is an opinion, then stop attempting to dictate my editorial decisions! Because I won't listen! And you will just get mad and then I will get mad and then there is no happy thing that everyone wants.

I'm not your mom. If you're scared and upset about what is happening with Texas football, call your mom. She will tell you it's going to be okay. That is not my job when things are not okay. If you don't want to know about the things that are scary and not okay and might upset you about Texas football, don't read this website. I will continue writing about the things, whatever they may be.

So let me spell this out again, one final time -- my life revolves around Texas football. so I want it to be good! If you don't think I want it to be good, there is nothing further I can do to help you because I just wasted 45 minutes of my life that I will never get back explaining what should be obvious.