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April 25, 2006

Brown coach Miller heading to Penn

PROVIDENCE -- Brown men's basketball coach Glen Miller is leaving his post after seven years to lead the Ivy League's reigning power program.

Miller has accepted an offer to succeed Fran Dunphy at the University of Pennsylvania, according to sources. He will likely be introduced in Philadelphia on Wednesday.

Miller leaves Brown with a career record of 93-99 and 54-44 in Ivy League play. Miller's success in his time at Brown has made him an interesting target for other schools in previous years. Only last month, Miller was offered, but turned down, a vacancy at the University of Hartford. But Penn proved to be a different story.

Under Dunphy, the Quakers were a dominant Ivy power that rolled to a 20-9 record, 12-2 in the Ivies, this past year. The Quakers return several key players for next season, including Ivy Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber.

The other finalists for the Penn job were Cornell coach Steve Donahue and Lehigh's Billy Taylor.

A former player at Connecticut, Miller coached at UConn under Jim Calhoun for seven seasons and then led Division III Connecticut College from nowhere to a 28-1 mark and the NCAA semifinals in 1999.

At Brown, Miller won more games in his seven-year stretch than any coach in school history. From 2001-2004, the Bears posted four consecutive winning seasons for the first time in the program's history. In both 2003 and '04, Brown finished second in the Ivies (behind Penn) with 12 and 10-win league seasons.

While Miller's gains at Brown were substantial, Penn and Princeton have long dominated Ivy League basketball. Penn's aggressive recruiting and willingness to offer more extensive financial aid opportunities to basketball players has played a key role in the program's success.

First-year Brown athletic director Mike Goldberger will begin a new search for a replacement this week.

-- KEVIN McNAMARA

Posted by Art at 10:15 AM | Permalink

Comments

What the heck are you talking about "Penn's willingness to offer more extensive financial aid".

Penn cannot offer any more aid than any other ivy school. Get your facts even if it is just a blog.

Posted by: tom at April 25, 2006 1:41 PM

who do you guys think will get the brown job

Posted by: bob at April 25, 2006 2:07 PM

Penn does not offer more money to recruits, in fact Penn offers less because all Penn financial aid recipients graduate with at least some amount of student loan debt. At Princeton, in contrast, all financial aid now consists of grants and none via loans. I don't know where you got this but you really should check your reporting - as to this point, very bad journalism. Penn might be offering the least attractive financial aid in the entire league, with its poorly performing endowment. Ever think that the Palestra, the Big Five, former coaches with names like Daly and Weinhauer and Harter, and its rich basketball history....might be factors?

Posted by: Quakermaniac81 at April 25, 2006 7:07 PM