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Jamie Dixon

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I went to the game yesterday, and I came in not knowing very much about him, but I knew from watching him a little at Pitt, and seeing a few TCU games, I thought he was a pretty decent coach.

Seeing him in the game, I lost all respect for him. Halfway on the court, dancing around in front of the referees, and complaining on every call. Then, while the refs were having a meeting at half court to discuss a call, he or one of his assistants said something to Fran, and Fran had to be restrained. Did anyone else notice this? Does anyone know what happened in that exchange? Also, I thought showing up a referee is usually followed by a technical. The refs just let him dance around and wave his arms around the entire game.
 
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Agree Dixon should have had MIN 1 T for being on the court as far as he was with the game being played...Refs are chicken little's anymore that is a fact
 
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HawkGem10 said:
Agree Dixon should have had MIN 1 T for being on the court as far as he was with the game being played...Refs are chicken little's anymore that is a fact
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They seem to dont want to take control...what is so difficult about telling a coach "you either get yourself back on the sideline or you will be watching the other team shooting free throws"...
 
coreyzbizkits said:
I went to the game yesterday, and I came in not knowing very much about him, but I knew from watching him a little at Pitt, and seeing a few TCU games, I thought he was a pretty decent coach.

Seeing him in the game, I lost all respect for him. Halfway on the court, dancing around in front of the referees, and complaining on every call. Then, while the refs were having a meeting at half court to discuss a call, he or one of his assistants said something to Fran, and Fran had to be restrained. Did anyone else notice this? Does anyone know what happened in that exchange? Also, I thought showing up a referee is usually followed by a technical. The refs just let him dance around and wave his arms around the entire game.
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I think he is an excellent coach as well, but I now have a less respect for him because of his antics yesterday. I will probably root against them in the future against every one not named Duke, NC, Kentucky, Kansas, etc.
 
HawkGem10 said:
Agree Dixon should have had MIN 1 T for being on the court as far as he was with the game being played...Refs are chicken little's anymore that is a fact
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There was at least one point, after the warning, where one ref ran into him 3 feet onto the court heading to Iowa's end during the 2nd half.

I actually tried to pay attention to how both coaches were doing during the game. Fran was rarely on the court during play. There were times he'd leave the box when they were in the far end to yell/communicate something to the team. But he'd step back into the box after communicating it. Dixon seemed to spend more time on the court than in the box, other than the first few possessions after the warning.

Now, to be fair, I don't have a problem with it if the ball isn't in play. It looks bad, but not a big deal. But he'd be 10 feet onto the court as the teams would be lining up for an inbound, then back to around 3-4 feet onto the court when play was initiated.

I will also say, his being on the court did not affect the outcome of the game.
 
JEDN said:
What adjustments did Dixon make and please be specific.
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Not so much an adjustment that Dixon made, but an adjustment that Fran and staff failed to make was Iowa's inability to stop TCU on the same play over and over again. 10 seconds on the shot clock and TCU has it's wings across the baseline cross switch while Brodziansky slips an on ball screen at the top of the key. Iowa hedges, as always, while a guy on the baseling cuts to the basket. Iowa is badly out of position and scrambling to help. This play was never addressed and created at least 5 easy dunks and a few wide open 3's. Everyone who was watching knew it was coming and we didn't change a damn thing on defense. Very frustrating.
 
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coreyzbizkits said:
I went to the game yesterday, and I came in not knowing very much about him, but I knew from watching him a little at Pitt, and seeing a few TCU games, I thought he was a pretty decent coach.

Seeing him in the game, I lost all respect for him. Halfway on the court, dancing around in front of the referees, and complaining on every call. Then, while the refs were having a meeting at half court to discuss a call, he or one of his assistants said something to Fran, and Fran had to be restrained. Did anyone else notice this? Does anyone know what happened in that exchange? Also, I thought showing up a referee is usually followed by a technical. The refs just let him dance around and wave his arms around the entire game.
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this is every coach in college basketball
 
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So just like a majortiy of CBB coaches. I just ignore it anymore otherwise it drives me crazy.
 
JEDN said:
What adjustments did Dixon make and please be specific.
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I know, what the hell is he talking about? Fran's poor adjustments to Iowa shooting a woeful FT percentage? There silly, unforced turnovers? What exactly?

Look people want to rationalize it, but the fact is TCU played very well most of the game and I will not taking anything away from them--the extra curricular non-sense is a different issue.

Let me be clear: Iowa deserved to lose yesterday and TCU deserved to win. What bothers me, though, is how the NCAA still can't get officiating right. The refs waste so much time going to the monitor and still there are so many calls that should be reversed that never get to be--that are equally important.

For example, in my mind, when a guy takes 4 and a half steps to the basket and gets a ticky tack And1 call, someone should be able to buzz the officials over and say "Look at the play again, we think there was traveling." Is that just as important as later going back and reviewing that Jok had a toe on the line when shooting a 3 pointer, and thus taking a point away? I think it is. I do believe the officials made the right call on Baer with the intentional foul, even though I think it's a pretty chicken shit rule the NCAA has. He wasn't deliberately trying to hurt anyone, just trying to stop a lay up--that was a love tap in the the old days of college basketball. Plus, at the end of overtime TCU players were intentionally fouling Iowa and had their arms above their shoulders coming down hard on Iowa players. Furthermore, let's mention the missed goal tending call in the Nwestern/Zags game. Why shouldn't officials be able to go back and determine that was goal tending and award the proper points? Again, if they can go back and review a toe on the line for a three-point shot, they should be able to review something so obvious.

My point? A lot of coaches get fired over one game--had Fran been on the hot seat this year, that loss at Minnesota that was called wrong is a killer and likely kept Iowa out of the NCAA. Fran would have lost his job because of the official's error. So your point is that officiating error is part of the game? Cool. So be it. Then stop having them go to the monitor for some things, and not be able to for other things. Either you get all crucial calls right, or you live with the results of human error. This is having your cake and eating it too--and teams get screwed over because of it. It's ridiculous.
 
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Hawkherky said:
Make your free throws and don't turn the ball over and we are not talking about ANY of this. It would have been TCU playing from behind the entire game instead of IOWA.
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Missed free throws gets old. Like Wagners energy an all but when he gets fouled its like a turnover, cause 2 bricks are a coming. whole front court needs a lot of work on free throws
 
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It was a fun game and both teams got a little bit chippy and I loved it. It only fired up the crowd that much more.

The only thing that pissed me off was a continued inability to play any sort of defense. There is absolutely zero reason, with that crowd yesterday that a team of TCU's caliber should walk in and score 90. We shot almost 60% from 3 and lost. That's almost impossible to do. I feel like all the improvement shown during the season completely disappeared in the last three games.

Iowa ended up around 200th in defensive efficiency rankings, which is god awful for a major college team and really cost Iowa probably no less than 4-5 games this year.

Fran has got to figure out a way to drastically improve this (+50-75 spot minimum) to expect any real improvement next year. I think a guy like Garza will help the back line but our guards give up way, way too easy of dribble penetration. I'll just continue to beat on the drum that so many others have. We have to find a good to great perimeter defender at PG that can also break defenses down. Without one, the ceiling for this team is somewhat limited.
 
grugreen said:
Missed free throws gets old. Like Wagners energy an all but when he gets fouled its like a turnover, cause 2 bricks are a coming. whole front court needs a lot of work on free throws
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I swear, missing free throws is some kind of Iowa thing. Even when we had Alford as coach, one of the best FT shooters of all time, our FT shooting still sucked.
 
Dixon didn't out coach anybody. The Iowa players caused their own downfall with turnovers and missed FT.
I lost all respect for Dixon. He is really a jerk. I especially didn't like how he stormed out on the court after every whistle. Sometimes a good 15 feet out on the court. He had the officials cowed.
 
When Bohannon and Jok missed FT's yesterday, I knew it wasn't going to be the Hawk's day at the line.
 
Jamie Dixon is a clone of a mafia hit man from the
1920's. It is the way he combs his hair and scowls
his face. He comes straight out of Universal Studios
as a star in the remake of the film, "The Godfather".
 
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You are right, LuteHawk. Dixon was an ass yesterday, in every way, and they can keep him at TCU. How do the officials let that TCU player walk through the Iowa bench? What the hell is that? And I don't know what Dixon said, but Fran was clearly livid and ready to punch the guy out during that double T stoppage. Which makes it that much worse to lose to that bunch of lowlifes.

BTW: Very surprised and disappointed at Iowa's lack of defense yesterday, not to mention the gawd awful free throw shooting. But Dixon and his team have no class whatsoever, regardless of the scoreboard.
 
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After the double Tech they bring both coaches together. As they're walking away, Dixon continues to bend the ref's ear. Fran marched down the sideline and stuck his head in there to portray he wanted to listen too. Fran was kind of pushed back by the ref and escorted back to his coach's box.
 
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does that comb over start or end in the front? I was baffled the whole game trying to figure that out. oh ..ya..... complete ass, do not what.
 
If the Hawks make 70% of their free throws they win easily in regulation!
 
hawk-i bob said:
and lets not forget the TCU player doing a walk thru to the Iowa bench..so we get a double tech by a player who was in the game & one who was on the bench...maybe Pemsl said something he shouldnt of but I didnt see him walking down to the TCU bench...chicken call by the officials who lost control.
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Couldn't believe that one either. The TCU player had no business walking through Iowa's bench area. We end up with a typical double foul, because the zebra's don't have the stones to just penalize the guy who starts the fracas.
 
Hawkherky said:
Make your free throws and don't turn the ball over and we are not talking about ANY of this. It would have been TCU playing from behind the entire game instead of IOWA.
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But they didn't and that is why we are discussing it. Jaime Dixon took a team that was 10-60 since joining the Big 12 and came into CHA with his prized freshman PG on the bench injured and beat Iowa. This is a team that has not had much success since joining the Big 12 in 2012. In addition, they have an all time winning percentage of .461 so the job that Jaime Dixon did in overcoming a losing environment is outstanding. Texas is a recruiting hotbed. He is a coach that has had proven success in the NCAA Tournament. He has a couple of Sweet 16s and an Elite Eight on his resume. He took Pitt to the Dance 11 of 13 seasons.
 
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