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Dixon: Chose
TCU over UCLA
TCU basketball coach Jamie Dixon is planning to go home soon to the Los Angeles area to visit his parents. He said he could have been coaching there if that’s what he had really wanted to do.
Dixon said Wednesday that he made the decision to stay at his alma mater instead of returning to the West Coast to coach even after UCLA was prepared to take care of the hefty buyout in his contract.
“Ultimately I had the choice to go or leave, and I decided to stay. It was my choice,” Dixon said at the Big 12 spring meetings. “They took care of the buyout. … I had the option to go. I could do what I wanted to do.”
UCLA in April hired Cincinnati’s Mick Cronin after the Bruins had spoken with Dixon, who was born and grew up in the Los Angeles area, and then Tennessee’s Rick Barnes. There were numerous reports that UCLA couldn’t reach a deal with Dixon because of a TCU buyout that is reportedly worth more than $8 million.
The Horned Frogs are 68-41 under Dixon, and their 2018 NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018 was only their second since 1987, when Dixon was a TCU point guard. They won the 2017 NIT championship and made it back to Madison Square Garden for the NIT semifinals this year after being one of the first teams left out of the 68-team NCAA field.
“I’ve been doing it a long time and there’s always been rumors to numerous jobs through the years. I think generally because I’m from the West Coast, those have been the ones that have gotten more play over the years,” the 53-year-old Dixon said. “But I’ve always been happy at TCU. … Nothing has changed We’ve loved every minute we have been at TCU, and enjoy Fort Worth.”
Alabama-S.C.
starts SEC on CBS
Alabama at South Carolina on Sept. 14 will start CBS’ Southeastern Conference football schedule this season, and Notre Dame’s trip to Georgia the next week is positioned to be a prime-time game for the network.
The schedule for the 19th season of the “SEC on CBS” was released Wednesday, along with the dates and times for Army-Navy (Dec. 14, 3 p.m. Eastern) and the Sun Bowl (Dec. 31, 2 p.m. Eastern).
The only SEC games locked into time slots so far are Alabama-South Carolina at 3:30 p.m. Eastern in Week 3 of the regular season and Florida-Georgia in Jacksonville on Nov. 2 at 3:30 p.m. Other games will be chosen throughout the season, six to 12 days before they are played. CBS’ contract with the SEC gives the network first choice of games to air each week.
A CBS doubleheader is set for Sept. 21, when Georgia hosts Notre Dame, with games scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern. The other doubleheader date is Nov. 16, with games at noon and 3:30 p.m. Eastern.
Former Ohio State athletes sue school
Thirty-seven former Ohio State athletes, including over two dozen football players, have filed a new lawsuit alleging the university disregarded concerns about a team doctor who sexually abused young men for years.
The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday comes after an investigation concluded Richard Strauss abused at least 177 young men between 1979 and 1997.
The new case echoes claims from dozens of alumni in other lawsuits and identifies only one plaintiff by name: ex-wrestler Michael DiSabato, whose allegations helped prompt the investigation. He declined to comment on the lawsuit.
The athletes’ lawyer, Michael Wright, says he agrees with university President Michael Drake’s statement that there was an “institutional failure.”