Archie in the mix after all?

[HutchwasClutch]

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/30/report-marquette-wake-forest-will-continue-to-pursue-dayton-head-coach-archie-miller/

From this afternoon (haven't seen it on the board yet, forgive me if it was).

[Blackhat]

Definitely an intriguing coach....Dayton hasn't seen that tourney success in a long time.

3-4 of his recent recruits hail from Chicago.

[MUCam]

So, in the most superficial way possible, there is something that just doesn't look right about him.

I am sure the way a dude looks is part of Cords' analysis.

[HutchwasClutch]

The original column by Gary Parrish about this-  with names like Wojo, Cuonzo, etc. being floated, what a breath of fresh air this would be if it would heat up.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24507702/expect-daytons-archie-miller-to-be-pursued-even-with-new-contract

[willie warrior]

So our impact hire would be Dayton's coach?

[HutchwasClutch]

So our impact hire would be Dayton's coach?

What's not to like about him?

[chapman]

So our impact hire would be Dayton's coach?

The play to lower expectations has been successful when he's the shining star on our list.  I'd take him and run and be pretty happy about it at this point.

[mhendrick]

What's not to like about him?

seems like dbag ,but at this point he may be our best bet.

[Blackhat]

He does have a little ghetto twang to his speech, little bit worse than Sean Miller's ghetto twang.

That said, sh.t it might play well with recruits though it would get annoying after losses.

[T.V. Diener 34]

seems like dbag ,but at this point he may be our best bet.

Everyone loves a dbag when he's your dbag.... see: Buzz Williams dancing on WV's floor

[GooooMarquette]

Not my top pick - that would far and away be Howland.

But if it isn't Howland, this choice intrigues me far more than Martin, Wojo, Brey, Wardle and most of the others brought up.  He took Dayton further than they've been in 30 years...and even put up a pretty good fight against a great Florida team.

1.  Howland
2.  Archie

[Groin_pull]

The play to lower expectations has been successful when he's the shining star on our list.  I'd take him and run and be pretty happy about it at this point.

Soon we'll be begging for Wardle.

[chapman]

Kind of seems wrong that Dayton has the hottest Mrs. D1 Basketball Coach...  http://www.heavy.com/news/2014/03/who-is-dayton-coach-wife-morgan-miller/

[Warhawk Warrior]

We need a coach and recruiter.  Archie seems to fit that mold.

[Tugg Speedman]

Forget Archie, just take his wife

[Groin_pull]

Forget Archie, just take his wife

If he scored that looking the way he does...wow. He must be a master salesman. Can only imagine his prowess on the recruiting trail. Sign him up!

[Blackhat]

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Archie is leveraging us for money. He won't stop moving up until he's at the same level as his brother.

Still, wouldn't be a bad hire.

[Tugg Speedman]

Archie is leveraging us for money. He won't stop moving up until he's at the same level as his brother.

Still, wouldn't be a bad hire.

Everyone is worried about Howland being a dick.

Archie Miller real name is Ryan Miller.  His nickname is "Archie" after the Character Archie Bunker from the 1970s show "All In The Family."

They nicknamed him Archie and it stuck because is apparently is a dick all the time.

Still interested?

[Benny B]

So, in the most superficial way possible, there is something that just doesn't look right about him.

I am sure the way a dude looks is part of Cords' analysis.

Yeah... he does look a little too much like Joe Lo Truglio for my comfort.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Everyone is worried about Howland being a dick.

Archie Miller real name is Ryan Miller.  His nickname is "Archie" after the Character Archie Bunker from the 1970s show "All In The Family."

They nicknamed him Archie and it stuck because is apparently is a dick all the time.

Still interested?

YES




'Always sort of an ornery little guy'

There are families of doctors, families of attorneys and families of educators.

At the Miller home in Beaver Falls, Pa., basketball was the family business.

When John Miller retired in 2005 at age 62 after 35 years coaching boys basketball at Blackhawk High School, his résumé included a 657-280 career win-loss record, state championships in 1992, 1995, 1996 and 1999, and eight Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League titles in its classification. For 21 consecutive seasons, Blackhawk was a fixture in the state playoffs, and the program went 104-29 in postseason play.

John Miller and his wife, Barb, had four children, Sean, Dana, Ryan and Lisa. Of the 40-plus players Miller sent to college basketball programs through his work at Blackhawk or other coaching experiences, Sean, Ryan and Lisa have made him the most proud. Dana, the second-oldest of his four children, didn't catch the basketball bug but was a skilled high school tennis player.

As for the third child, only Barb, Dana and Lisa use the name "Ryan" when referring to him. He's "Archie" to the men in his family, his wife Morgan and everyone else he's encountered in his basketball career.

It's a nod to the crotchety nature of the Archie Bunker character in the 1970s television sitcom All in the Family, as John Miller said that Ryan was "always sort of an ornery little guy." The nickname stuck, and that's the reason why the Flyer Faithful will cheer for Archie, or "Arch," despite his possession of a driver's license that reads "Ryan Joseph Miller."

That ornery little guy enjoyed being around his father and Sean, who's 10 years older, when they went to the gym, and John took Archie along when he traveled to coach at clinics across the region. Archie carried the bag of basketballs and other equipment for his father, and as his reward for being such a good helper, he earned a front-row seat to watch the winning process in action.

Sean, at 6-foot-3, left Blackhawk High to become one of the most popular players in University of Pittsburgh history and from there began taking the steps that would help him launch a successful coaching career. Although also a point guard, Archie was smaller at 5-foot-9, a measurement that created more adversity as he attempted to follow a similar path.

It might have been a blessing in disguise.

"He was undersized, so when he began to play, he became sort of that tough-nosed player that battled for everything," John Miller said. "He's always had that bit of aggressiveness. I don't think losing ever enters his mind."

As Blackhawk High's point guard, Archie led the Cougars to back-to-back state titles in 1995 and 1996, his sophomore and junior years. That's two more state titles than Sean can claim.

College coaches were noticing. Herb Sendek, a Pittsburgh native who attended rival Penn Hills High School in the 1970s and early '80s, was well acquainted with the Miller family through the high school and Amateur Athletic Union coaching circuits. He attempted to recruit Sean in the late 1980s when he was an assistant coach at Providence College in Rhode Island.

In 1994, Sendek snagged his first head coaching position, getting the call at age 30 to lead the Miami (Ohio) program. Sendek hired Sean Miller to his RedHawks staff, and two years later he moved south, taking over at North Carolina State.

Sendek hired Sean again as an assistant and recruited Archie to play for the Wolfpack. Sean was there for most of his brother's college career, leaving after the 2001 season to become an assistant at Xavier.

For Archie, the connection with Sendek was the beginning of a relationship that would transcend its initial incarnation as coach-player and eventually become one of professional colleagues and even friendly rivals when Sendek landed at Arizona State and Archie became an assistant on Sean's staff at Arizona.

"Basketball was coded in Archie's DNA," Sendek said. "He grew up with it day in and day out. I have great respect for him. He was a self-made Atlantic Coast Conference player who overcame a lot and did it through hard work. He was one of the best shooters I've ever had the chance to coach."

[Silkk the Shaka]

Yeah... he does look a little too much like Joe Lo Truglio for my comfort.

Haha could you imagine Joe Lo Truglio on a recruiting visit?

[MuMark]

But if Archie hadn't made the Elite 8 would anyone want him?  

[tower912]

There would be a lot of complaining about how we had to settle for Dayton's coach.    Of course, whoever the hire is, there is going to be a lot of complaining about settling.   

[MikeDeanesDarkGlasses]

But if Archie hadn't made the Elite 8 would anyone want him?  

Depends.... how is his team looking for next year?  To me that's a great indicator of how well someone manages a program.