West Virginia Metro-News: Patience, support, steep odds await Dixon at TCU
By Allan Taylor in Sports, WVU Sports
COMMENTARY
Some 114 years have elapsed since Add-Ran College changed its name to Texas Christian University, and it seems nearly that long since the Horned Frogs won an an NCAA tournament game. So everyone yell howdy to favorite son Jamie Dixon, who’s about to attack the worst job in the Big 12.
He probably won’t make the Dance 11 times in 13 seasons like he did at Pitt. Nor will he endure the malcontents who labeled his Panthers chokers after five losses to lower seeds in their last seven NCAA games. Sure, Dixon never vaulted Pitt into the Final Four, but no coach ever has.
It will take far less to impress in Fort Worth, where the composite first four years of Big 12 action yielded an 8-64 regular-season record under Trent Johnson. Only a week after Johnson’s firing, athletics director Chris Del Conte found a better coach than his program deserves, pulling Dixon back to the campus where he played from 1984-87.
It was during that 1987 season in which TCU last won an NCAA tournament game, beating Marshall 76-60. So by the time next March rolls around, it will be 20 years and counting. …
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