Miller not interested

[Sir Lawrence]

Hate to break it to you MU fans, but Miller is not interested. Xavier beat writer posted this on his blog today. Xavier is a better program.

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/ncaa/

I just talked with Bobinski about all this Marquette/Indiana/Cal stuff. He said he and Miller were in Bobinski's office last night around 6:45 when a reporter from Milwaukee called. The reporter told Bobinski that word was that Miller was going to be in town (Milwaukee) that night and meeting with Marquette that night or Thursday morning. Bobinski and Miller, sitting three feet from each other on XU's campus, got a good laugh out of that. Miller doesn't appear to be going anywhere, and Bobinski said with "no disrespect to Marquette" but as far as Miller's concerned, the Marquette job isn't on par with the Xavier one. As I said in the comments of this post, he believes that big things can be achieved at Xavier and is committed to that goal. Xavier is probably in a more secure position now than it was five years ago in committing itself to making XU a destination type job for someone like Miller.

Anyway, Bobinski said Miller and the XU administration had a "first phase" discussion about Miller's new deal. They'll sit down again after the Final Four.

So...it's last Sunday night...Tom Crean and Todd Rosiak are sitting in Crean's office chit-chatting...a call comes in from a Bloomington, IN newspaper inquiring about the rumors that Crean may be coming into town to interview, etc.  Crean scoffs at the notion and proceeds to have a good laugh with Rosiak at Indiana's expense...

Then comes Tuesday....

Listen - Miller isn't going to say what he really feels with a reporter in the room sitting next to him.  It would be a really stupid move. 

I'm not saying that Miller is at all interested in MU, but please take this story with a grain of salt.

I think you read it wrong.  The reporter wasn't in the room with Miller, the AD was, and then later talked to the reporter. 

[Tugg Speedman]

Hate to break it to you MU fans, but Miller is not interested. Xavier beat writer posted this on his blog today. Xavier is a better program.

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/ncaa/

Miller doesn't appear to be going anywhere, and Bobinski said with "no disrespect to Marquette" but as far as Miller's concerned, the Marquette job isn't on par with the Xavier one.

So, according to what Bobinski said, Miller is leaving Xavier, he's just holding out for a better offer (taking Pickens money at OSU?).  If they thought MU was a step up, am I correct in assuming he would leave?  That's what it sounds like he said.

No professional speaks this way about another program.  You say that you're happy where you are and then praise the other program to high heaven and say it would be wonderful but no thank you.  You never, ever, dis someone else like this.  You never know, maybe someday Bobinski might be looking for a job and you never want to burn bridges likes it.

Besides who was the Milwaukee reporter talking to them? (Rosiak?)  Where is his account of this chat?

[xfan]

I hate seeing some of the in-fighting between fans of both of our schools.  I've had friends and relatives who went to Marquette and only have respect for your school.  Being an X fan, I understand what you all are going through.  It's not fun, and I do hope you get a coach that will lead you to great success.

I know the quotes by X's AD made some of you angry.  There is an article in today's Cincy Enquirer that explains it more.  I'm not naive enough to think Sean will never leave.  But, I do know he's a very different person than Matta.  X is working very hard to keep and reward Sean. Many at X say Sean was instrumental in putting the large buyout in his contract to show loyalty back to the school and I, believe, to help on the recruiting front.  The best thing Thad did for X was bring Miller with him as associate head coach from day 1.

I think this article shows the comments were more about the relationship between X and Sean and not meant as a slight to Marquette.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/SPT0102/804060448/-1/CINCI

Best of luck to you all on your seach.  I hope it is resolved soon, so you can get excited about the future of your program.

[LA Muskie]

How about this?  How about, why is Sean Miller so hot when everyone and their mother wins at Xavier?  Give me a guy who's won where peope haven't .  Sean Miller nmay be great but all he's shown so far is that he's on par with Gillen, Prosser and Matta.

I mean no disrespect (and you will see that I'm not the "Troll" type), but that's pretty good company.  My hope (and the hope of everyone in Xavier Nation) is that he sticks around longer than at least the latter 2 (in his defense, Gillen spurned many a job before eventually taking the Providence job).