That familiar face, of course, is Horned Frogs’ first-year coach Jamie Dixon, who spent the last 17 years working for our old friends up in Pittsburgh, the first four as an assistant coach for Ben Howland and the last 13 as Pitt’s lead maestro.
My fading memory can recall Pitt coaches dating back to Tim Grgurich in the late 1970s, and while Grgurich and his successor, Roy Chipman, were usually waving matches near sticks of dynamite, some of Pitt’s latter coaches such as Paul Evans, Ralph Willard, Howland and Dixon were a little more subdued with their antics.