Kevin Parrom (Offer)

I'm glad Miller didn't exactly "class it up" on the way out the door. It will make it much easier to cheer against his teams.

I think we should supeana Miller's phone records and the same with Book's and Whitford's. The we can see if there was some shanagans going on with our recruits....

LET IT DIE.

Miller is gone.

Live long and prosper, Coach Chris Mack and the Xavier Musketeers!!!!!

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Originally Posted by LA Muskie

Fred, if you look through my posts you will see that while I initially defended Miller I changed my tone considerably when I saw the "timeline" indicating that Miller spent a sum total of about 5 minutes with "his" players before the press conference and only after they found out about his decision from outside sources. The way he treated the kids was deporable.

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And I have to say that LA also came around to the belief that the move wound up being primarily about money (albeit a little later than some of us!:)), not basketball.

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Originally Posted by Xman95

And I have to say that LA also came around to the belief that the move wound up being primarily about money (albeit a little later than some of us!:)), not basketball.

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That, too, is true.

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Originally Posted by LA Muskie

That, too, is true.

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If it were, Sean would not be the coach at AZ, he would be the coach at either of the following:

Indiana
Marquette
Alabama
Virginia
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I don't think that any of those schools were going to offer Miller the kind of money that Arizona threw at him, otherwise of those options I don't see why he wouldn't be at IU right now. IU has more of a 'basketball tradition' than Arizona ever dreamed of having. The NCAA sanctions make is a bit less attractive, but if you were thinking long term and willing to wait it out a few years IU still looks like a much better job to me than AZ.

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Originally Posted by boozehound

I don't think that any of those schools were going to offer Miller the kind of money that Arizona threw at him, otherwise of those options I don't see why he wouldn't be at IU right now. IU has more of a 'basketball tradition' than Arizona ever dreamed of having. The NCAA sanctions make is a bit less attractive, but if you were thinking long term and willing to wait it out a few years IU still looks like a much better job to me than AZ.

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I'm not trying to say it had nothing to do with money, but I am saying that it was not all about money. I think it is somewhere in the middle. I'm pretty sure Alabama offered grant close to 2 mil, same with IU and Crean.

If it were all about money, it seems like he would have jumped at the first potential big time raise. I think several things were attractive about AZ, including, perhaps even especially, the money.

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Originally Posted by The Artist

I'm not trying to say it had nothing to do with money, but I am saying that it was not all about money. I think it is somewhere in the middle. I'm pretty sure Alabama offered grant close to 2 mil, same with IU and Crean.

If it were all about money, it seems like he would have jumped at the first potential big time raise. I think several things were attractive about AZ, including, perhaps even especially, the money.

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I guess I can agree with that. I don't think that he would have gone to Alabama for the money, but I still dont' see what makes AZ a better gig than IU if they are offering the same money.

Of course we are assuming that Sean was a shoe-in for the IU job, and that may or may not have been the case. If IU had come after Sean as hard as AZ did he may be the coach there right now.

I would definitely rather have him at AZ than right in our back yard like Matta.

Parrom still mulling options
Posted by ShannonRussell at 4/22/2009 2:24 PM EDT on Cincinnati.com

I just talked to Kelvin Jefferson, Kevin Parrom's coach at South Kent, to see if the player had made any decisions. In a word, the answer is no. Jefferson said Parrom is still taking a step back and listening to coaches. He's not leaning in a particular direction, Jefferson said.

"He's overwhelmed right now," Jefferson said. "He's getting a lot of information thrown at him."

It's plausible that Parrom could again choose Xavier. But much is up in the air right now, and there are many options to weigh, Jefferson said.