FWST: TCU basketball secures the coach it wanted for decades

By [big steaming pile] [email protected]

The irony is TCU hired one of the few men with a distinct link to its basketball tradition whose main responsibility will be to continue almost none of it.

Jamie Dixon is finally coming back to Fort Worth as the anointed savior of the TCU men’s basketball program. It only took 20 years to get him here.

Godspeed, Jamie. Your job is to build something that exists in name only.

TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte and a handful of TCU trustees convinced Dixon to leave a giant, guaranteed contract at Pittsburgh to return to his alma mater to run what has been one of the worst high major Division I jobs in America. …