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Sean Miller (Former HC Arizona Wildcats)

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http://www.azcentral.com/sports/ua/...507leverage-may-sean-miller-goal-arizona.html

Or leverage?

While there's already a report that Marylanf will name Sean Miller it's Coach, Miller has yet to formally meet with Maryland AD Kevin Anderson.
That is expected to happen Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas, after Miller finishes an appearance at a coaching clinic, from what I've been told.
There's no telling what factors are weighing the highest on Miller now - family reasons, the Baltimore/Washington recruiting turf or just the desire to create leverage that could result in staff raises -- but the fact is they are weighing on him.

Ollie Goulston, Angelo Chol's coach at Hoover High School, said he believed Miller was listening but would ultimately stay at Arizona.
"I talked to him last night but I think there's a kind of reasons to stay at the end of the day," Goulston said. "Sometimes these coaches use these situations for leverage."
Goulston said he believed Miller was trying to ensure his assistant coaches get raises, which, despite the Pac-12's incoming tv money, is not an easy thing to do politically in Arizona these days.
Miller's planned contract extension, for one, was not brought before the Board of Regents in April possibly because of the controversy over tuition increases.
As of now, both remaining assistants, James Whitford and Book Richardson, make about $200,000 (they were hired for $190,000 in 2009) and the other staffers all make considerably less.
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starBUCKS;1918480; said:
Well, it was, but he was under critisim at NC State... took them to 5 straight NCAA tournaments and they haven't returned since, so I guess he had the last laugh.
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I've got some contacts in NC with ties to the university who've told me definitively - Herb Sendek would NOT have remained coach at NC State had he not left for ASU "voluntarily." That place is a mess (the NCSU athletic department, that is).

I suppose Sean Miller's possible move to Maryland may be evidence that the Arizona athletic department may not be a real happy place, either.
 
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http://www.azcentral.com/sports/ua/...ts-sean-miller-agrees-contract-extension.html

Arizona announced late Saturday night that Miller has agreed to a contract extension of undisclosed terms, and athletic director Greg Byrne said he hopes Miller will stay long into the future.

Already, Miller took the Wildcats to the 2011 NCAA tournament Elite Eight in his second season, and he assembled the No. 4-rated recruiting class in 2011.
"We've made tremendous improvements because of his leadership and he's understood very clearly since the day I came to campus that I'm thrilled he's our basketball coach," Byrne said in an interview with the Star. "He certainly knows that I hope he's the coach for many years to come and our actions have gone to show that."
Byrne would not disclose the terms of Miller's extension except to say that it will include an "adjustment." Miller signed a $2 million annual deal in April 2009 under a seven-year agreement with then-AD Jim Livengood. He was promised a two-year extension in 2011 because he could be offered only a five-year contract under Arizona Board of Regent limitations. CONT...
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Arizona basketball: Friends Miller, Matta turn enemies for day
Coaches helped oust UA in 1995, then faced off in epic 2007 game
Bruce Pascoe Arizona Daily Star

Out of coach Lute Olson's heartache - and a tiny office in Oxford, Ohio - grew a friendship that will be renewed again Thursday in Los Angeles.

Arizona's Sean Miller and Ohio State's Thad Matta, who will face each other in a Sweet 16 game at the Staples Center, were both assistant coaches for Miami (Ohio) on March 16, 1995, when the 12th-seeded Redskins handed Arizona its third first-round NCAA tournament upset in four years.

Miller appears to remember that day as well as Olson, or any longtime Wildcats fans.

It was "probably one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history," Miller said Monday. "We played Arizona at 9 a.m. Pacific time. We had a really good team and we were playing about 30 miles from campus. I'm sure coach Olson thinks about that even to this day."

Fittingly, after Miller worked under Matta on the Xavier staff from 2001-04, Matta and Miller created an NCAA tournament memory of their own as head coaches. It was a second-round game in 2007, 12 years after that Miami-UA shocker, and three years after Miller had taken over Xavier when Matta moved to Ohio State.

In what CBSSports.com called one of the 10 best games in the first decade of this century, the Musketeers led by nine points with three minutes left, but lost in overtime after Ohio State's Ron Lewis hit a three-pointer to tie it with two seconds left in regulation. In overtime, Mike Conley scored the Buckeyes' first seven points to help give them a 78-71 win.

"They hit an incredible shot and they moved on," Miller said.

It was all part of the deal, just like the loser Thursday will find, too. Good friends, who happen to be well-accomplished Division I coaches, are sometimes going to face each other in the NCAA tournament.

"I consider Sean one of the best friends I have in life," Matta said after that 2007 NCAA tournament game, according to the Toledo Blade. "I think it's unique, but when you're in this profession long enough, situations are going to arise when you coach against friends."

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http://azstarnet.com/sports/basketb...cle_3f13f082-d9ab-5c9e-afcf-4440ec1f728e.html
 
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Sean Miller gets one year Arizona extension

The University of Arizona's Board of Regents has approved a one-year contract extension for basketball coach Sean Miller through the 2017-18 season.
Miller's current contract increases yearly to $2.6 million in 2016-17, but he requested that the fifth year be the same as the fourth. He earned $2.2 million last season, along with numerous academic and performance bonuses.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...an-miller-arizona-extension.ap/#ixzz2WU2FMIOL
 
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Billy Donovan: Sean Miller is among elite

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Sean Miller doesn't quite rank No. 2 in our list of the top 50 coaches in college basketball, but the Arizona coach could climb higher than No. 11 soon.

With the foundation that Arizona’s Sean Miller has established, he’s poised to become one of the “next” coaching icons in college basketball.
Florida coach Billy Donovan said there’s no need to wait for the Krzyzewskis and Boeheims of the world to retire. He believes Miller belongs in the conversation of elite college basketball coaches "right now."

“Certainly you can look at a lot of coaches and their longevity,” said Donovan, who has Miller on his coaching staff for the USA Basketball’s Under-18 National team this summer. “But if you look at what Sean has done ..."

Miller took over at Arizona in the 2009-10 season after the transition to find Lute Olson’s successor was anything but seamless. Kevin O’Neill -- the one-time coach-in-waiting – took over on an interim basis but was fired after one season. Russ Pennell then took over during the 2008-09 season but he was not retained.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/99355/miller-among-the-elite-right-now

Re: The Cradle of Coaches is a nickname given to Miami University in Oxford

Xavier is truly becoming the "cradle of basketball coaches".
 
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Sources: Arizona Wildcats fire coach Sean Miller

Sean Miller has been fired as the head coach of Arizona, sources told ESPN.

Miller had been in Tucson since 2009, leading the Wildcats to seven NCAA tournaments and three Elite Eight appearances. Arizona won at least a share of five Pac-12 regular-season championships under Miller.

Arizona had been ensnared in the 2017 federal investigation into corruption in college basketball. Former assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit bribery after being accused of accepting $20,000 to steer Arizona players to aspiring sports agent Christian Dawkins. During Dawkins' trial, prosecutors played a call in which Richardson told Dawkins that Miller was paying $10,000 a month for former player DeAndre Ayton. Miller has consistently denied paying players to attend Arizona.

The NCAA charged the school with five Level I violations, according to a notice of allegations released last month. The program was hit with two alleged instances of academic misconduct, while Miller was charged for not demonstrating "that he promoted an atmosphere for compliance and monitored his staff."

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...urces-arizona-wildcats-fire-coach-sean-miller



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Bill Self just got a lifetime contract. Will Wade still employed at LSU. Weird how things get applied when they all are basically on tape paying players.

Surprised they didn’t keep telling everyone to screw off. Unless he’s in legit, FBI trouble.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Bill Self just got a lifetime contract. Will Wade still employed at LSU. Weird how things get applied when they all are basically on tape paying players.

Surprised they didn’t keep telling everyone to screw off. Unless he’s in legit, FBI trouble.
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I was wondering how USC made it into the tournament. I thought for sure something was going on there when the Mobley brothers father was the assistant coach. How did that happen:huh: Maybe they have something on someone that works in the NCAA.
 
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