You can bet this is going to get beaten into the ground during the many national appearances Pitt will have this season, so this is probably the last time I will post about Coach Dixon helping at the scene of the car accident.

Here’s the video of Coach Dixon’s ESPN First Take appearance talking about the accident.

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It’s been a while since Louisville has won a conference road game. Over three years and ten games, in fact. That’s an effective summary of the Steve Kragthorpe era. New Coach Charlie Strong is using that to motivate his team this week.

“Coach Strong does an excellent job at finding something that will just itch at you all week,” left guard Josh Byrom said. “Every week he has something.”

Strong gave the Cards a similar nudge going into their game at Arkansas State. Before that 34-24 victory, they had lost 10 straight road games since a 35-28 win at Memphis in 2008.

It’s his way of keeping them focused on the task at hand. With five games left on the schedule, Strong admits stressing the clichéd one-game-at-a-time approach. He has resisted using the league’s parity as a motivator.

It’s early, but I get the feeling that Strong’s Louisville tenure is going to make a lot of other programs that passed on him have some buyers remorse.

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