Miller - Candidate?

[ford]

you know what will help keep sean miller....making the final four THIS YEAR! Coaches want to be some place where they have a chance to win titles. and he has that here...making the final four will prove to himself that he is in the right place...for good!

[Lead Guitar]

Vitale noted in his USA Today article this week that Grant, Miller and Ford would be the coaches that would be hard to keep. I disagree.

I think Miller is realizing that he has a good thing here at X. He sees Leito at Virginia and Cappel at Auburn, who jumped and are either not doing well or are actually saying that they might have made the wrong choice. I do not think Miller's ego will make him jump!

Bobinski feels that Miller can and will strive to get the job done at X and that he and his family like Cincinnati. He pretty much promised the kids coming in next year that he was here to stay. I feel he stays for ten years or more. Why leave if he is successful.

If we are successful, the question will be where will Mack go? He is 38 and a prime candidate for a head coaching job.

[xuhuh!]

Vitale noted in his USA Today article this week that Grant, Miller and Ford would be the coaches that would be hard to keep. I disagree.

I think Miller is realizing that he has a good thing here at X. He sees Leito at Virginia and Cappel at Auburn, who jumped and are either not doing well or are actually saying that they might have made the wrong choice. I do not think Miller's ego will make him jump!

Bobinski feels that Miller can and will strive to get the job done at X and that he and his family like Cincinnati. He pretty much promised the kids coming in next year that he was here to stay. I feel he stays for ten years or more. Why leave if he is successful.

If we are successful, the question will be where will Mack go? He is 38 and a prime candidate for a head coaching job.

Lead on! Sean's a bball man, at a bball school, in a bball league. still has visits to his home city, state. kids will play at moeller/st x, then start at 3 positions for XU. March to the Sea! March 12-15, Atlantic City, NJ

[stewiex]

Miller is exactly the type of squeaky clean, talented coach that Indiana will be luring after Kelvin gets the boot. There is no way Miller turns down that job. Could you blame him?

[ford]

i think he absolutely turns it down if they end up sanctioning the program with postseason bans and lost scholarships. that can really put a program in a hole. Miller would have a better shot to win a title at X.

[xavierj]

Vitale noted in his USA Today article this week that Grant, Miller and Ford would be the coaches that would be hard to keep. I disagree.

I think Miller is realizing that he has a good thing here at X. He sees Leito at Virginia and Cappel at Auburn, who jumped and are either not doing well or are actually saying that they might have made the wrong choice. I do not think Miller's ego will make him jump!

Bobinski feels that Miller can and will strive to get the job done at X and that he and his family like Cincinnati. He pretty much promised the kids coming in next year that he was here to stay. I feel he stays for ten years or more. Why leave if he is successful.

If we are successful, the question will be where will Mack go? He is 38 and a prime candidate for a head coaching job.

Actually Sean commented at a luncheon recently that he feels strongly that at least one of his assistants will have opportunities this spring. I would bet that is Mack.

[mhettel]

Mark Few will be ahead of Miller on the list.

IU is a good job. Few might be looking. Jobs like these don't come around too often...

[xudash]

Vitale will always state the perceived obvious: guy at smaller school will be inclined to take a BCS job.

I'm in the camp that believes that Sean will stay at X. I'm not even sold on the idea that he would return to Pitt if given the chance. I believe the probability is high, but I don't believe it would be as automatic as assumed around here.

There is a long and growing list of guys who "made the move" only to flame and fall short at their new promised-land locations. Anyone in Sean's position that is faced with making that choice is going to carefully weigh their ability, regardless of how much faith they have in themselves, to pull off success at the new place. It really does have to be the right job within one of these BCS conferences. I'm sorry, but South Carolina and LSU are not examples of that type of job opportunity.

Then there is the matter of how good Sean has it on Victory Parkway. It's about academics and basketball. Sean is less than 40 years old. Earning $900k'ish with incentives for, say, 10 years will do wonders for the estate as well. His name in the sport - his legacy - would be that much clearer would he become the guy to achieve real sustained success at X: a couple/few F4 appearances, etc.

It was hard for Skip to leave Xavier for Wake Forest. The program has grown a lot in the 7/8 years since that happened.

Sean's name will certainly be in the news when these jobs open up. But Sean Miller isn't through with what he wants to accomplish at X, and he feels good about his overall situation at X and with his profession.

[stewiex]

As much as I'd like to believe that Sean would stay, I refuse to fall into that mindset that Matta led us into once before. I think if IU or Pitt come calling the temptations they bring are too great for anyone to resist (like doubling his salary right off the bat). It is NOT easier to win a championship here than at IU (just based on IU having numerous titles and we have none), that's just not clear thinking. It's far easier to recruit into Assembly Hall than the Cintas Center. As far as Mark Few goes, he may have turned down so many jobs over the years that other coaches, such as Miller, may seem more attractive now.

[ford]

it's alot easier to win an NC sooner at X if IU is banned from the postseason for 3-5 years and loses scholarships. a lot depends on how big of a hole the program is in once the dust settles.