Sean Miller

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Originally Posted by Cincypunk.org

I guess I don’t understand this… who is paying a 12-year-old? Is he repoing a business? If so, who sees a 12-year-old promote a business and say “Hey, I think I’ll spend $$$ at that business because of this 12-year-old!!!”


When NIL first started I thought it was so players could be hired to endorse local car dealerships and restaurants etc. Now schools just get a lot of $$$ from donors to pay players? School with the most funds to pay players gets their pick of the litter?


Is there any chance NIL will get reigned in with a salary cap or a limit like 1 transfer per player in their career?

With Free and Hunter leaving and us probably never seeing a guy play more than 2 years at X again it definitely makes it harder to be invested and interested.

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It’s going to take either a federal law or the players unionizing and some kind of college-wide collective bargaining agreement. Attempting to reign in player transfers or salary would otherwise be an illegal restraint on commerce / the market.

This is going to be the new normal for a while.

And I get it’s frustrating because the media just pretends in these games / coverage that it isn’t happening. You hear talk about how dominant the SEC was and no one chimes in to discuss how much more they’re spending on players than the competition. The media understands that the popularity of the sport would decline if fans became more aware of the disparity in spending + how much these players are making. They want you to still identify with these players as “kids representing their school” when it hasn’t been like this for years. It’s the G-League with no spending rules now. And they know what the ratings are for the G-League.

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Originally Posted by Caveat

You can stop after “Money.”

College basketball is a professional sport now and your ability to compete is directly linked to your ability to pay top talent to come play for your team every single year.

I think people don’t appreciate how this is going to be a yearly process unless and until either Congress steps in or some kind of CBA occurs. Every single year your best player will ask for more money and leave if you can’t meet salary demands. Every single year your top recruits will leave for more playing time so they can put tape out and make more money.

The SEC & the B10 are going to own this generation of college ball because the financial resources for these schools absolutely dwarf even their ACC counterparts — just like in football.

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My point is that everyone has money in the power 4, and he could go to a basketball rich tradition who also has money. Not like the sec is the only conference with money. Have you watched the rest of the tourney? They aren’t any better than any other conference, just propped up by espn. Texas has zero bb tradition.

Sean can be selective where he goes if he wants to go somewhere m. Texas would be at the bottom of the list.

I really don’t see miller going somewhere where bb is second fiddle. It goes against everything he’s ever said and done

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Originally Posted by Blue Blooded-05

Sean never seemed comfortable under the pressure of immense expectations. Does he want to be super rich and happy or super duper rich and miserable? Only he can answer that question.

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And there you have it.

I’d love Sean to stay because “I think” he loves the game (basketball, not the other part of it) and seems to actually what to help the young pros get better.

Or maybe I’m just naive and grew up with excellent coaches who did it for peanuts. :)

Weird situation because while Texas did fire a coach who went to the sweet 16 and made the tournament all 3 years (granted, steady obvious decline) Texas bball takes a huge back seat to football. I don’t know that the pressure is all that high. Sean can build good enough teams there. He isn’t the fanbase first choice, though.

Feel like he did the big school big expectations thing and saw grass isn’t always greener. However, I learned long ago to never say never about XU coaches leaving.

If this is his agent getting this out there to keep pressure on XU for resources and NIL fundraising, I love it. If he actually leaves though, that would be devastating. Ugh.

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Originally Posted by D-West & PO-Z

If this is his agent getting this out there to keep pressure on XU for resources and NIL fundraising, I love it. If he actually leaves though, that would be devastating. Ugh.

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My thoughts exactly.


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Originally Posted by bjf123

My thoughts exactly.


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Yay for agents! :)

Anybody monitoring flights from Cincinnati to Austin?

How about looking at this from the vantage point of hierarchy and gap.

What has been the hierarchy in college basketball for the last - pick any length of time: decade, 30 years, 50 years?

Has Xavier closed the competitive gap since Bill Daley convinced the University’s leadership to get serious about basketball and athletics?

The hierarchy really hasn’t changed much, has it? A small number of true Blue Bloods. Then the larger, more powerful land grant universities. Then the next level of large public schools and better private schools, followed by a sea of Mid and Low Majors.

The competitive gap? We have built a respectable résumé over 40 years, which itself has built a strong fan base. We have a beautiful facility and made it to the Big East.

The portal is something to which you adjust. It’s the new, primary source for attracting the personnel you need. Everyone is stuck with it.

NIL. It’s the damn NIL. It presents a kind of “structural” dilemma for us, insofar as it will keep us from being able to close the “gap“ any further than we have to this point in time. Everyone here understands it and gets it.

However, it doesn’t mean that we cannot still compete at a level where we can make it to the second weekend and possibly still get lucky and make it to the third weekend at some point.

I’m 69 years old - almost. I have lived through Schmidt Memorial Fieldhouse and Tay Baker. I am in the demographic that is frustrated by all of this monumental change to college athletics. Yet, I frankly believe that we will remain on the national stage in the sport. Never say never, but I understand that we will likely not ascend to the level of a Duke. That doesn’t mean we are going away.

As far as Sean Miller is concerned, I do not see him leaving Xavier. But it gets back to what may be the key question, doesn’t it? Does Sean believe he can make it to a F4 from Victory Parkway?

It’s up to our eventual package of compensation resources for our players - NIL, direct payments. We have everything else in place that we need.

This moment has become crazier than sitting around to see whether or not we made this year‘s tournament. Now we get to see whether or not Sean stays, that he keeps the key players we want and need, and that he can move on and build a roster from there.

Tic. Tic. Tic.

This has played out very strangely as Texas has not officially announced that Terry has been fired. I read an article that the current Texas AD Delconte will not announce the firing until they have the next coach lined up.

Kirk Bohls covers University of Texas for the Houston Chronicle. Here is his tweet from two hours ago. " Delconte hasn't met with Rodney Terry yet, but I expect that to happen by Monday. I think Texas will hire Xavier's Sean Miller because he is a successful, polished veteran coach, has a small relatively small buyout and is a CDC favorite (Texas AD)". I tried linking the quote from Twitter, but was unable.

Take the information with a grain of salt because it looks like although Bohls covers Texas he has been wrong at times in the past on Texas info.

My opinion, if Sean is the guy for Texas, it will be announced by Monday. It seems odd that so many Texas people think it is Miller. It is either very legit or a complete misdirection from the Texas AD and these people don't know anything. I am actually leaning towards these people don't know anything. (Sean could still end up being the guy though). Also, Texas conducting a coaching search while the current guy is "employed" is something.