Dixon was branded as a poor recruiter and won.
Until his recruiting went from mediocre to abysmal a few years ago. If winning is defined as mowing through a slate of non-conference creampuffs, then going .500 give or take in the conference, then squeaking into the filed of 68 in March and going nowhere in the tournament, Dixon was doing fine.
If someone's standard for this program is to simply make the NCAA tournament field of 68 consistently, as has been suggested by many since Dixon left, Stallings may eventually be able to fulfill those expectations. Fearless leader himself was trending the wrong way on that measure, and nearly every other, before he left.
