Summer Shootaround: Sean Miller joins EOCBB to discuss his Texas team that has legit Final Four hopes π
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Who is Sean Miller and what was Texasβs turnaround in Year 1?
welcome back into the ion college basketball podcast and our summer shoot around series gary parish still on vacation still across an ocean uh but that's all fine and good because we've got another coaching interview coming your way here on this episode today we don't do a lot of coaching interviews on the show but for the shoot around we like to mix in just a few and try and bring in some voices that have never been on the show and so here we've got the coach of a team that went 21-15 last season was an 11 seed In the NCAA tournament, but went from the first four to the sweet 16. I saw his group in person out in the West regional semifinal where it faced off against Purdue gave a fantastic fight.
Oh, by the way, against Matt painters crew fell by just two in the West regional semifinals. And now Sean Miller has a pre season title. Top 10 team. According to GP, by the way, a preseason top five team. It's a pleasure to bring in Sean Miller on the Eye on College Basketball podcast. His debut. Sean, I appreciate you joining. And for those watching on YouTube, we can see that he has identified himself by his name card as Sean Miller, Texas basketball, which I think you're tremendous SID. The one and only Scott McConnell did the full on appropriate title there. I appreciate you joining the show here, bud.
Glad to be on, Matt.
Glad to be on. Okay. Before we get to year two, what is your assessment of how year one went? Expectations going in versus how it played out. You stumbled near the end of the season, but then the tournament means so much. You go from first four in Dayton, getting all the way to the Sweet 16. That's obviously a really, really good run. But when you take everything in totality, how would you grade the job you did in your first year there?
Well, you know, I think anybody that changed jobs last summer, last spring, you know, it was just a very unique time in college sports. There was a lot of unknown. You know, I think we were β you know, the analogy that makes sense to me is you're β Building the plane and flying it at the same time, and it really felt that way. However, I think we put a good group together. One of the keys for us is to keep a core group of players that were already here at Texas and keeping them not just going β Hey, nobody that was here before is allowed to stay. We didn't approach it that way. As a matter of fact, we went the opposite. And then obviously a couple of key guys that we were able to bring in, Modis and Daylon Swain, who both of those two guys had phenomenal years.
So with that, I don't think you really know how you're going to be. You know, it's a new league, the SEC. It's a new job. Everybody's trying to get to know you, including your own fans. And I think you on your end, you know, as time goes forward, you get more comfortable. Having said that, the thing about our team a year ago, Matt, that I'm the most proud of is we were incredibly resilient. You know, in December or November, January, right when it looked like we're going to take a knockout punch, we would come up with a big victory or we would have multiple victories that kept us moving forward. And then we were fortunate to be in the tournament. But when we entered the tournament, we entered the tournament with...
something to prove a chip on our shoulder, and we had a lot of energy in our tank left. So the ending of our season was the highlight. The fact we went from the first four to the Sweet 16, like you mentioned, I think was a great accomplishment. We feel really, really proud great about being able to do that. Jordan Pope, Tremond Mark, Big Modest, and Daylon Swain, that group of four really carried us. And then we had a lot of guys who bought into their role. And as you know, March Madness, it's unlike any other month in the calendar year for college basketball. So we played our best when it meant the most. And I think it gave us tremendous momentum moving into year two.
Yeah, that game, by the way, the game against Purdue, when there was just all of this uncertainty going in to the injury to Pope, right?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Sean Miller and what was Texasβs turnaround in Year 1?
0:14β7:22
2
How did Jordan Popeβs injury and March run define Texasβs tournament success?
7:22β20:41
3
What answers did Sean Miller get after Year 1 and how will Year 2 change?
20:41β44:45
4
How does Texas evaluate chemistry and recruit fit in the portal era?
44:45β54:59
Speakers
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