When TCU and Florida meet on Sunday, it will be a matchup of two teams building long histories at the College World Series but missing a championship.
Florida has been going to Omaha for almost 30 years.
TCU, for not quite a decade.
Florida got close twice, losing in the championship final in 2005 and 2011.
TCU had its best shot last season, losing two semifinal games out of the winners bracket to the eventual champion.
They were painful moments for both teams.
But not failures. TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle and Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan refuse to see those seasons — or this one, however it may end for either team — in those terms.