The Sporting News is reporting that Arizona coach Sean Miller will not leave for N.C. State. Miller is a former Wolfpack assistant who is from Pennsylvania and played at Pittsburgh.
His brother, Archie, is one of his assistants at Arizona. Archie Miller is a former Wolfpack point guard from the Herb Sendek era.
By the way, Sean Miller and his wife do not have North Carolina ties. The couple met when they were in high school in Pennsylvania. They have three children.
One Arizona paper has dismissed speculation that Miller would leave, noting that he makes $2 million a year with the Wildcats and has an outstanding recruiting class on the way.
That’s a bummer. I understand State would pay about a million more than he’s making there.
Miller does have North Carolina ties as far as having been an assistant at N.C. State for five years.
There has been some talk on the Internet that if Yow is willing to look at assistants who have never been a head coach, Archie might be a good place to start. I don’t think that will happen. State fans want someone proven. That being said, Coach Smith was an assistant and unproven, as was Roy Williams when he took over at Kansas.