This story is already a month and a half old, but I just noticed it. A CBS Sportsline story on Pitt’s new b-ball coach, Jamie Dixon. Most of it is spent focusing on his acting in TV commercials to give him the human, light touch story. That would have been fine, but it’s the rapid revisionism that the piece does in how Dixon got the job.

Which is why when Skip Prosser turned the Panthers down to stay at Wake Forest, the Pitt administration turned to Dixon despite interest from a number of proven head coaches.

“As anticipated, some very high-profile parties expressed interest in the job,” said Pitt athletic director Marc Boehm. “In the end, discussions on who would be the best fit kept coming back to Jamie. Over the last four years, our basketball program has reached heights some people once considered impossible. In Jamie, we have a person who helped us reach those heights and will help us reach even higher in the future.”

The run that Dixon was a part of the past four years is, indeed, amazing. The Panthers were a struggling, almost forgotten power in the Big East. But the past two seasons, they captured at least a share of the Big East title, reached the Sweet 16 twice and put together a ridiculous 57-11 overall record.

No wonder UCLA made Howland its first choice. And Pitt had few reservations about handing over its program to Dixon. That’s something Dixon, who figured his first head-coaching job would be at a good mid-major or a rebuilding big program, is grateful for. All the work he did to get Pitt to this level, he now gets to reap the benefits of.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Pitt totally flubbed the hiring so many ways. Dixon may work out, and I hope he makes me look foolish about this, but my main problem was and still is with the way they went about the whole damn thing. This article makes it seem like the administration had a solid plan the whole time.