http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/2011/05/10/therapeutic-sean-miller-reaches-out-to-the-arizona-basketball-program-and-fans/ UAsports.net Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/2011/05/10/therapeutic-sean-miller-reaches-out-to-the-arizona-basketball-program-and-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-6197 Scott Terrell Wed, 11 May 2011 06:14:23 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/?p=495#comment-6197 Miller and Byrne both talked about how much the business of hiring a coach has changed in the last few years.  Nowadays with Twitter and Facebook people can’t cough (or in Amy Miller’s case, sneeze) without 12 rumors hitting the internet.  The head coach at a program like Arizona definitely lives in a fishbowl 24 hours a day.

]]> http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/2011/05/10/therapeutic-sean-miller-reaches-out-to-the-arizona-basketball-program-and-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-6195 Tom P. Tue, 10 May 2011 22:05:16 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/?p=495#comment-6195 After the Maryland situation arose, I had to remind myself of the environment Coach Miller is in professionally.  I think the basketball culture Lute coached in is much different than the one Miller is coaching in now.   I can’t think of a better coach or better person to be leading our team.

]]> http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/2011/05/10/therapeutic-sean-miller-reaches-out-to-the-arizona-basketball-program-and-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-6194 Dionisio de la Vina Tue, 10 May 2011 18:08:00 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/uasportsnet/?p=495#comment-6194 I recall when Lute went to Kentucky to see if the grass was greener there. It turned out it was blue, but in Lute’s case (if I am not in error) he was mad at Hansen and he wanted to show that he was the basketball king here. He made his point stick. I remember that we the fans were upset about Lute’s flirtation with one of the elite programs in the nation. But Lute  then was not as young as Sean is now and we didn’t have the national basketball prestige that we enjoy now. I believe that the stakes were much higher for the fans this time around and everybody was a little more sensitive about Sean’s 40-hour-long date with Maryland’s brass than during Lute’s third year hear. It’s going to take a very firm ‘NO’  from Sean whenever an offer comes his way. He will have to make us feel like there is no program out there that is worth leaving us for. He will have to convince us that he is convinced that there is no better place than McKale Center to call home. Every new potential recruit that comes here has to be totally sure that Sean Miller is Arizona Basketball. Sean will have walk this walk before our trust toward him is fully restored. Talking the talk he did on Monday will last only as long as we can throw a basketball. No one should forget, especially when basketball in this town begins to resemble a circus like it did this past week, that it is the fans that are the most important in the equation.

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