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Archie Miller Extends Contract to 2022

This is great news. Keeping great coaches in the league is a good thing.

It's also a bit of an odd season where there haven't been too many desirable jobs that have opened. That could change if Rick Barnes gets canned from Texas.
 
Originally posted by spider fan:

Dayton gives their 36 year old coach Archie Miller a three year extension. He has certainly shown he can coach. Elite Eight last year and back to the tournament this year with a very short bench.
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This is reminds me a lot of what we did with Mooney. Both steadily improved the program over their first 4-5 years culminating in 2 trips to the NCAAs and a deep run (they did get an elite 8 instead of a sweet sixteen.) The way many Dayton fans feel about Archie right now is how we felt about Mooney after our sweet 16 run.

This post was edited on 3/26 4:44 PM by fan2011
 
Here's the difference --

Mooney's 2nd tourney was with a bunch of seniors (KA, JH, KS, DG). Dropoff thereafter expected.

Archie loses just one guy - Jordan Sibert.

Next yr --- Scooch, Kyle D, Darrel D, Dyshawn, Kendall. Should be another dance invite.

And then the following yr, still everyone above except Dyshawn.
 
What is also very different is that Archie's team this year did it while kicking off some of their better players early in the season, and playing with no one taller than 6-6. That is really amazing at this level to make it this far. They basically played a 7 man rotation and were undersized and still had a great year. Not the same as our tourney team as someone mentioned which was loaded with seniors.

I expect them to be a heavy favorite next year to win the league, when they add some new players - along with VCU. I would expect to see Dayton, VCU, URI, and UR, in the top 4 pre-season poll. Davidson maybe sneaks in a 4, but see them at 5.
 
Gregg Marshall has no reason to leave WS at this juncture. He has a great situation, they have become more of a "re-load vs re-build" type of program, and they are squarely in the same sort of position as Gonzaga, Xavier, or even RPI when it comes to post-season appearances and successes, and recruiting.

I think you will see him do the same thing as Mark Few or Shaka, he will stay put, build the program, make really nice coin in the Wichita economy, and would only leave for a huge pile of money for an elite school/program (Kansas, Indiana, perhaps Texas, maybe Syracuse after Boeheim leaves, or a similar opportunity).






This post was edited on 3/27 9:55 AM by keefusb
 
Marshall is out of there as fast as possible. I'd be shocked (see what I did there) if he stays. This game is more and more about the Power 5 - he'll have Alabama and Texas fighting over him. I hope I'm wrong.
 
I read an article recently about him recently that indicated that he would not necessarily jump at a job for the money. I read another that was similar in nature:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/warning-schools-interested-gregg-marshall-won-t-easy-145403691--ncaab.html

I don't think Alabama is the spot for him, though he may disagree. I could see Texas.

As for the Vols, as a born and bred Tennessean, it's rough to see the Vols men's basketball team having such a rough go of it, particularly with football in a similar boat that lacks success recently. Hopefully they will figure something out here with whomever is the next hire.
 
Originally posted by URPike:
Marshall is out of there as fast as possible. I'd be shocked (see what I did there) if he stays. This game is more and more about the Power 5 - he'll have Alabama and Texas fighting over him. I hope I'm wrong.
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Smells like a savvy agent to me. Easier to command a fat juicy pay raise for GM and his assistants if Alabama and UT are the ones calling.

The BAMA job opening is going to give a lot of HCs a healthy pay raise without anyone actually taking the job.
 
A quick internet seach returns that Marshall is making about 1.75 million per year at Wichita through about 2020 or 2021. Assuming the rumors are true - he could probably get the same lenght of deal (5-6 years) for the money being thrown out there, which last was Alabama at $3.5 million a year. That would be tough to turn down.

The other thing to consider is age. Marshall is about 53 now. How much longer he intends on coaching might be a driving factor in whether or not to stay at Wichita. I would guess Wichita can't match the salary others are offering, but they could probably pay him $2 million a year and add on more years to the contract for a long term deal. But if he only plans on coaching 5-6 more years - until he is 60's (that would still be young for some coaches - but a personal decision for others) - it might be time to jump ship, take the money, and see if you can get 1 really good team elsewhere to make a final four run. If not - so be it, you just doubled your bank account in half the time.

I am not a huge fan of long term deals, but I think in this case - considering he took them to an NIT title, final four, and sweet 16, along with 2 other NCAA appearances - an 8 year or even 10 year deal, he will likely make the NCAA tourney in almost all those years.
 
Marshall can write his own ticket at Witchita or have his picking of prime BCS jobs if he wants to go that route. And when I think of prime BCS jobs, Alabama does not come to mind. Unless Alabama backs up the brink truck to get Marshall, I don't see him taking that job considering he is already getting nearly 2 mill at Witchita State. Plus Alabama is a football school with basketball being the sport that gets them from the National Championship to Spring practice.

Now Texas might be a different story.
 
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