When Blair walked into one class early last week, the other students gave him a standing ovation.
“They got up and started clapping,” Blair said. “I was like, ‘C’mon’. It was weird to me. But it’s cool.”
The story noted that Coach Dixon was doing interviews all week long with Pitt’s ascension to the #1 spot. It seems that Bill Plaschke wasn’t the only one doing the look-back with Maggie Dixon. This USA Today piece has some of the same details from the interview right down to the rocking chair and cutting his kids waffles.