I have to concede to having doubts about how much Coach Dixon will actually let the offense speed up. There’s just human nature to fall back on what has worked. Especially, if the offense costs the team too frequently with defenses lapses.
Then I read that he’ll be working at the camp put together by Memphis Coach John Calipari (July 23 entry).
The latter, naturally, was the preferred route, and that’s what led to the creation of the first annual Adidas Midsouth Coaches Clinic that’ll be held just outside Memphis on Sept. 14-16. The set-up is for Walberg and Calipari to discuss and explain the ballyhooed dribble-drive motion offense that Memphis has used to earn back-to-back trips to the Elite Eight and a No. 1 ranking in CBS SportsLine.com’s preseason rankings. Among the other coaches scheduled to appear and instruct are Bob Knight, Larry Brown, Del Harris, Rick Barnes, John Pelphrey, Jamie Dixon and Stan Heath.
It doesn’t hurt, of course, that Pitt is an Adidas school and the sponsor of the camp is Adidas.
Still, Coach Dixon will be spending part of his dead recruiting period speaking and learning about an offensive style that is more much up-tempo.
