TCU coach Jamie Dixon never envisioned a day he’d use the phrase “gone viral.”
But there’s no other description for what’s happened with how he and his program let walk-on Owen Aschieris know he’d earned a scholarship for the spring semester.
TCU had a police officer interrupt a team meeting to talk with Aschieris and, a few seconds later, his teammates exploded with enthusiasm about the scholarship news. The video has garnered more than one million views on the TCU men’s basketball official Twitter account.
“As far as coaching one of my gratifying and enjoyable moments, you can talk about championships or winning games or this, but the instances where we’ve been able to give a scholarship to a kid that has worked his tail off and given so much for the program are some of the most memorable I’ve ever had,” Dixon said after TCU’s 98-67 victory over West Virginia on Tuesday.