May 27, 2025 • 15 mins
Texas Longhorns basketball coach Sean Miller spoke at the SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, FL, on Tuesday. Miller discussed the roster construction of the team heading into 2025, the current landscape of college basketball, NIL, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Texas basketball obviously is in its off season, but that
doesn't mean things aren't percolating, what with the portal having
been opened for a while and Long Waron's head coach
Sean Miller's been very busy with that. But the football
and basketball head coaches at the SEC Spring meetings, so
there was media availability with these coaches. So let's hear
(00:22):
from Texas head coach Sean Miller with everything else is
going on, the up and down nature of the house settlement,
changes perhaps in the portal coming with even within the
framework of his own roster construction for his first edition
of Long Worn Basketball. All of these things part and
parcel of what Sean Miller is dealing with as he
(00:44):
visited with the medium here today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm thrilled to be here on the SEC Spring Meetings
from AFAR. I think captivates college sports. You know, all
eyes seem to be pointed here in dustin Florida, and
to be a part of it, especially at a great
place like the University of Texas. I'm both honored and
thrilled to be here and excited to talk about Texas basketball.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
For Lescina and for Daily How important is it just
for them?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
To be able to come in because you mentioned that
you're not coaching a team, so for you have a
style in a way of doing things. How important is
it to have those guys and maybe help the other
guys who've been here.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Or come in here to know how you operate well.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You know, if it goes to the word that everybody
talks about in today's college sports model, and that's retention.
We're all looking for ways to keep our best players,
to have key contributors and winning players go from one
season to the next. It's how things always have been
field pro sports. You know the value of keeping your
(01:47):
best players with you for a long periods of time
because it's not only their consistency and their own performance,
but it's their ability to impact others, to teach them,
to coach them, to kind of show the way to
those that are and Lesina and Dalen have a unique
opportunity because they've been with us in Dalan's case for
(02:07):
multiple years in Losina's case this past year. But they
know how we travel, how we practice, They know terminology,
they know people in our strength because they know who
I am, and I do think that they will be
very helpful in bridging that gap that just is there
when you're a new coach at a new place with.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The other players.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Equally important are the five or six Texas returners. You know,
guys that have been in the SEC, that understand what
it's like to play in Nashville and be part of
the SEC tournament, that live in Austin, that go to
school every day, so you know they're going to be
able to from that retention perspective be very helpful in building.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So if you look at it, we have retention.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
In this coming year, in my first year, two different ways,
from the two guys coming from Xavier and from those
returning from Texas. But that's a force that I don't
think that we underestimate. You know, you obviously collect talent.
You have to have a talented roster, especially in this league.
But the familiarity and the retention part of it is
(03:12):
something we hope to build as well.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Coach, What are the hot button issues in college basketball
right now?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I mean college football.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We're talking about college football playoff in nine game versus
eight game schedule. What are the hot button issues for
college basketball coaches?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I think the hot button model is just singular.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's you know, the name, image and likeness and how
that's going to work moving forward, and look as a coach,
I don't think any of us can be presumptuous or
act as if we know the answer. Part of it
is just we're in this period of time of the unknown,
and you know, I think the analogy that I've heard
(03:50):
is you're flying the plane and building it at the
same time. And to some degree in terms of sports,
that's true right where you're trying to make the best
decisions for your program, most importantly for the players that
you're coaching in real time, knowing certain things may not
be the same in the future. And by the way,
(04:10):
certain things aren't the same today as they were even
a year ago.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So I think it's that unknown.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
There's never been more of it when it comes to
that which affects recruiting and you know, the lifeblood of
what we all do when you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Look at on that topic.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I don't know if there's truth to the idea that
like a power for an SEC team that has less
money to spend on basketball will be put at a disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Again, say the place you left.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Where they don't have to worry about football, does that
come up?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, you're talking about the revenue share point five.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Where you're Villanova, you don't have to worry about a
football team. Is that an issue for you?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know, you hear that, But I think that me
coming from there. You know, I think that if we're
here speculating on that towards them, they would equally be
speculating on what we're doing down here. And that comes
back to this awkward unknown part. You just truly don't know.
It is truly speculation, and I know what you're talking about.
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But one of the other things that I feel as
part of the SEC and certainly at the University of Texas,
is you know that you're moving towards the future. You're
certainly going to be at the table, and I think
that's a very comforting feeling, whereas there are times when
other conferences, as much as they want to feel that way,
(05:39):
they can't because of the model that we are in
in the power of football.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Both M, sorry, both A and M and Texas new
head coaches. What do you know about that rivalry and
what do you know about like you mc millan, who
is as a coacher or something.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So an amazing fact, Bucky was Kolbe Jones, this high
school coach in Birmingham, Alabama. I was Kobe Jones's college
coach at Xavier and Kobe Jones if you don't know him,
he got drafted in the early second round. He's currently
an NBA player, most recently at the Washington Wizard's an
amazing kid and connected to somehow the University of Texas
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and Texas A and m's basketball coaches.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You know, I think if you bet on that about.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Four years ago, there'd be a lot of people that
take the bet and that that wouldn't be the case.
So that's really my familiarity. And also I know he
had great success at Sambord.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Coach four years ago, the SEC basketball was not what
it is today.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What made this so attractive to you coming to Texas
and the SEC, Well, it's two parts.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I think the first part that's attractive is in I
think for any coaches to be a part of the
University of Texas, I mean, there aren't many places that
combine the forces that.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
We have on our side.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The city of Austin, you know, I think that it
gets known around the country is like this really cool,
great college town.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I had never heard of bad words.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
A great place to live, a great food, seeing live music,
great college town. And you get to Austin, You're like,
oh my goodness, it's one of the top ten largest
cities in our country. You know, it's way more than
college town. It's a thriving city. It's the fastest growing
city in America. And then you know, you look at
our campus. Start with the university itself. I think the
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statistic that is in play right now is ninety thousand
applicants a year they accept less than nine thousand.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
There are many universities that can say that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And yet the backdrop of Austin with the University of Texas,
and now you put the SEC in play, which you
know it just means more is a great slogan. We've
all seen it from the outside if you're not a
part of the SEC, but it does you feel that
when you turn the TV on when you watch a
college football and this year at college basketball game, you
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sense the college sports is just incredibly important in this footprint.
So that and then the other part of Texas is
the Moody Center and our practice facility.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You know, it's two and a half three years old.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
There are very few places that have that type of
new facility and that's a great combination that I just
named right there in a row. So it's a decision
that although for me Xavier it's not like I wanted
to leave there. It's a great place in its own right,
it's just if you really want to be the best
or try to win at the highest level, I think
(08:40):
the future of college sports is right here.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
It's a dumfail on that sean I'm getting fourteen teams
in this is team thing is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Probably gonna be an anomaly. That's not think as a norm.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
But how sustainable is double digit bids plus for the
SEC as you look at the landscape and where college
basketball's go.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You know, it's home with me because remember at Xavier,
we played in the first four against Texas, right, so
if I guess they would have been towards the end
of that fourteen, and you know, playing that game and
how that game felt as a team that had a
lot of pride in being in the Big East and
playing in national schedule, you really sensed through that game
(09:21):
the incredible depth of the of the SEC. One thing
that's definitely going to change, and I don't think it's
talked a lot about in basketball, is the.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No COVID year.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You know, in our case, we had a number of
players in my three years at Xavier that were exercising
their fifth year.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's a year that doesn't exist right now.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So even this spring, as wild as you know, everybody
looked at the portal as being there was about twenty
five percent of the pie missing. You know, Zach Fremano,
who became our best player, if he were in this
present day, he would not be eligible to be on
the team next year. His year didn't exist. So I
(10:01):
think just that alone, you know, taking that one layer
of talent where you can convince in all SEC player
to return for a fifth year, and and now that
that's not in play, I don't think it our league
will remain as old. So I think just with that alone,
I don't know if fourteen of sixteen, I hope, but
(10:23):
I could. I could certainly see the effect of that
moving forward.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Even in the.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Final four, and you looked hard closely at Auburn and Florida,
two remarkable rosters. Part of their greatness was that they
had this gift of a blend of talent, but their
older players, you know, they were, They were a big
part of their success.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
What do you think that impacts It's a really interesting point.
Do you think that hurts the power leagues you could
afforded the veteran players.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, that would be my point there.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Can you talk about maybe re recruiting some of the
guys that you maybe you're recruiting the zabor now and
then of course now it's establishing relationships with guys that
you know you're trying to hit.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The ground running with and go and see.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, the re recruiting for me, or just the recruiting,
as how I would put it, is just you show
up and this is your first team meeting and you're
looking at, you know, the players that can come back
and be a part of our our our Texas roster,
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
This coming year. You know, you really don't know them,
they know you.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I do think one thing that was very helpful for
me is they just finished competing against the team that
I coached, our team, So you know, part of a
young person's questioning at the beginning is a style of play.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
They had a good sense whether.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
They liked it or not, they they had to feel
through scouting and through playing that game of what how
we play, the pace we play, and how it felt.
So I was able to describe our style really through
that and it just happened as well. So that's the
uniqueness of you know, Xavier and Texas playing so late
(11:57):
in the season.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So that was that was part of it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
There was helpful, But I thought, you know, the number
one thing that we tried to establish is that we
would love to have the returning players back that we're
gonna put together a program that they would want to
be a part of, in a winning program where we
could grow and build what's already in place. So I'm
thrilled about a lot of things moving forward and excited,
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but the returning Texas players is at the top of
that list.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'm I'm excited to coach them.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Can you talk about your decision to retain Chris Agden, Yeah, Olgie,
it is an easy decision for me because you know,
he's so well rounded with his background. You know, former
mister basketball as a player, player who had choices and
chose the University of Texas, a winning player, very popular
and with his teammates during his time, and then he
(12:52):
became a coach for coach Barnes and uh and and
had a long period of time both Texas, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know Chris By here, who I respect the great
deal as coach, so he knows the game, became the
head coach. Think about that power right there, just ran
his own program four period of time, and he did.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So to have him in today's world as a general
manager talking to the people, knowing the community in Austin,
it became an easy decision.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And he's been.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So instrumental and also very helpful to our entire staff
and program moving forward here of these I guess first
two months plus.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Is he a good recruiter in these days? Chris? Yeah,
you know he's.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Limited because of his role as as a non economy coach.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, but he knows, he knows what to do and
how to do it. He very experienced in season. I
can't I don't think I can even comment. Set up
from a high school recruiting perspective as well. You know,
how has that been for you.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Guys as far is just like I said, even recruiting
center hit such as four and then even some of
the stop top kids in Texas such trying to get it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We want we want to recruit the high school players
moving forward, you know, to the earlier question, I think that,
you know, it's a blend of transfers, retention, and incoming.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
High school players.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You can develop them, you can retain them, and we
have such an amazing state that I don't think it
would be in our best interest to not make the
state of Texas and the best high school players in
the state a huge.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Priority to not do that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I don't know if you can maximize who we are
as a basketball program in university, So recruiting high school players.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You're going to see us active.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I also don't think our entire team or classes of
five or six are going to be a part of
our future. But getting the right two or three, three,
sometimes maybe even four in a class and then in
trying to then add players to the spring, that's that's
our philosophy.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's long. Warren's head basketball coach On Miller was interesting.
He was talking about Chris Hogden being retained as the
general manager of the program and his ties to coaches
and coaching and basketball in the state of Texas, and
somebody asked him about Chris's son, Bo, who is a
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really good high school basketball player playing at the private
school level. He said, I didn't think I comment.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
On it, which he can't now.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That will never stop the media from asking the question there,
but sehn Miller, like some of the other head coaches,
smart enough not to engage in that
Texas basketball obviously is in its off season, but that
doesn't mean things aren't percolating, what with the portal having
been opened for a while and Long Waron's head coach
Sean Miller's been very busy with that. But the football
and basketball head coaches at the SEC Spring meetings, so
there was media availability with these coaches. So let's hear
(00:22):
from Texas head coach Sean Miller with everything else is
going on, the up and down nature of the house settlement,
changes perhaps in the portal coming with even within the
framework of his own roster construction for his first edition
of Long Worn Basketball. All of these things part and
parcel of what Sean Miller is dealing with as he
(00:44):
visited with the medium here today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm thrilled to be here on the SEC Spring Meetings
from AFAR. I think captivates college sports. You know, all
eyes seem to be pointed here in dustin Florida, and
to be a part of it, especially at a great
place like the University of Texas. I'm both honored and
thrilled to be here and excited to talk about Texas basketball.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
For Lescina and for Daily How important is it just
for them?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
To be able to come in because you mentioned that
you're not coaching a team, so for you have a
style in a way of doing things. How important is
it to have those guys and maybe help the other
guys who've been here.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Or come in here to know how you operate well.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
You know, if it goes to the word that everybody
talks about in today's college sports model, and that's retention.
We're all looking for ways to keep our best players,
to have key contributors and winning players go from one
season to the next. It's how things always have been
field pro sports. You know the value of keeping your
(01:47):
best players with you for a long periods of time
because it's not only their consistency and their own performance,
but it's their ability to impact others, to teach them,
to coach them, to kind of show the way to
those that are and Lesina and Dalen have a unique
opportunity because they've been with us in Dalan's case for
(02:07):
multiple years in Losina's case this past year. But they
know how we travel, how we practice, They know terminology,
they know people in our strength because they know who
I am, and I do think that they will be
very helpful in bridging that gap that just is there
when you're a new coach at a new place with.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The other players.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Equally important are the five or six Texas returners. You know,
guys that have been in the SEC, that understand what
it's like to play in Nashville and be part of
the SEC tournament, that live in Austin, that go to
school every day, so you know they're going to be
able to from that retention perspective be very helpful in building.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So if you look at it, we have retention.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
In this coming year, in my first year, two different ways,
from the two guys coming from Xavier and from those
returning from Texas. But that's a force that I don't
think that we underestimate. You know, you obviously collect talent.
You have to have a talented roster, especially in this league.
But the familiarity and the retention part of it is
(03:12):
something we hope to build as well.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Coach, What are the hot button issues in college basketball
right now?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I mean college football.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We're talking about college football playoff in nine game versus
eight game schedule. What are the hot button issues for
college basketball coaches?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I think the hot button model is just singular.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's you know, the name, image and likeness and how
that's going to work moving forward, and look as a coach,
I don't think any of us can be presumptuous or
act as if we know the answer. Part of it
is just we're in this period of time of the unknown,
and you know, I think the analogy that I've heard
(03:50):
is you're flying the plane and building it at the
same time. And to some degree in terms of sports,
that's true right where you're trying to make the best
decisions for your program, most importantly for the players that
you're coaching in real time, knowing certain things may not
be the same in the future. And by the way,
(04:10):
certain things aren't the same today as they were even
a year ago.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So I think it's that unknown.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
There's never been more of it when it comes to
that which affects recruiting and you know, the lifeblood of
what we all do when you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Look at on that topic.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I don't know if there's truth to the idea that
like a power for an SEC team that has less
money to spend on basketball will be put at a disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Again, say the place you left.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Where they don't have to worry about football, does that
come up?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, you're talking about the revenue share point five.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Where you're Villanova, you don't have to worry about a
football team. Is that an issue for you?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know, you hear that, But I think that me
coming from there. You know, I think that if we're
here speculating on that towards them, they would equally be
speculating on what we're doing down here. And that comes
back to this awkward unknown part. You just truly don't know.
It is truly speculation, and I know what you're talking about.
(05:19):
But one of the other things that I feel as
part of the SEC and certainly at the University of Texas,
is you know that you're moving towards the future. You're
certainly going to be at the table, and I think
that's a very comforting feeling, whereas there are times when
other conferences, as much as they want to feel that way,
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they can't because of the model that we are in
in the power of football.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Both M, sorry, both A and M and Texas new
head coaches. What do you know about that rivalry and
what do you know about like you mc millan, who
is as a coacher or something.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So an amazing fact, Bucky was Kolbe Jones, this high
school coach in Birmingham, Alabama. I was Kobe Jones's college
coach at Xavier and Kobe Jones if you don't know him,
he got drafted in the early second round. He's currently
an NBA player, most recently at the Washington Wizard's an
amazing kid and connected to somehow the University of Texas
(06:19):
and Texas A and m's basketball coaches.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You know, I think if you bet on that about.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Four years ago, there'd be a lot of people that
take the bet and that that wouldn't be the case.
So that's really my familiarity. And also I know he
had great success at Sambord.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Coach four years ago, the SEC basketball was not what
it is today.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What made this so attractive to you coming to Texas
and the SEC, Well, it's two parts.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I think the first part that's attractive is in I
think for any coaches to be a part of the
University of Texas, I mean, there aren't many places that
combine the forces that.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
We have on our side.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
The city of Austin, you know, I think that it
gets known around the country is like this really cool,
great college town.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I had never heard of bad words.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
A great place to live, a great food, seeing live music,
great college town. And you get to Austin, You're like,
oh my goodness, it's one of the top ten largest
cities in our country. You know, it's way more than
college town. It's a thriving city. It's the fastest growing
city in America. And then you know, you look at
our campus. Start with the university itself. I think the
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statistic that is in play right now is ninety thousand
applicants a year they accept less than nine thousand.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
There are many universities that can say that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And yet the backdrop of Austin with the University of Texas,
and now you put the SEC in play, which you
know it just means more is a great slogan. We've
all seen it from the outside if you're not a
part of the SEC, but it does you feel that
when you turn the TV on when you watch a
college football and this year at college basketball game, you
(08:04):
sense the college sports is just incredibly important in this footprint.
So that and then the other part of Texas is
the Moody Center and our practice facility.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You know, it's two and a half three years old.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
There are very few places that have that type of
new facility and that's a great combination that I just
named right there in a row. So it's a decision
that although for me Xavier it's not like I wanted
to leave there. It's a great place in its own right,
it's just if you really want to be the best
or try to win at the highest level, I think
(08:40):
the future of college sports is right here.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
It's a dumfail on that sean I'm getting fourteen teams
in this is team thing is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Probably gonna be an anomaly. That's not think as a norm.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
But how sustainable is double digit bids plus for the
SEC as you look at the landscape and where college
basketball's go.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You know, it's home with me because remember at Xavier,
we played in the first four against Texas, right, so
if I guess they would have been towards the end
of that fourteen, and you know, playing that game and
how that game felt as a team that had a
lot of pride in being in the Big East and
playing in national schedule, you really sensed through that game
(09:21):
the incredible depth of the of the SEC. One thing
that's definitely going to change, and I don't think it's
talked a lot about in basketball, is the.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
No COVID year.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You know, in our case, we had a number of
players in my three years at Xavier that were exercising
their fifth year.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
It's a year that doesn't exist right now.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So even this spring, as wild as you know, everybody
looked at the portal as being there was about twenty
five percent of the pie missing. You know, Zach Fremano,
who became our best player, if he were in this
present day, he would not be eligible to be on
the team next year. His year didn't exist. So I
(10:01):
think just that alone, you know, taking that one layer
of talent where you can convince in all SEC player
to return for a fifth year, and and now that
that's not in play, I don't think it our league
will remain as old. So I think just with that alone,
I don't know if fourteen of sixteen, I hope, but
(10:23):
I could. I could certainly see the effect of that
moving forward.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Even in the.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Final four, and you looked hard closely at Auburn and Florida,
two remarkable rosters. Part of their greatness was that they
had this gift of a blend of talent, but their
older players, you know, they were, They were a big
part of their success.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
What do you think that impacts It's a really interesting point.
Do you think that hurts the power leagues you could
afforded the veteran players.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes, that would be my point there.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Can you talk about maybe re recruiting some of the
guys that you maybe you're recruiting the zabor now and
then of course now it's establishing relationships with guys that
you know you're trying to hit.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The ground running with and go and see.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, the re recruiting for me, or just the recruiting,
as how I would put it, is just you show
up and this is your first team meeting and you're
looking at, you know, the players that can come back
and be a part of our our our Texas roster,
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
This coming year. You know, you really don't know them,
they know you.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I do think one thing that was very helpful for
me is they just finished competing against the team that
I coached, our team, So you know, part of a
young person's questioning at the beginning is a style of play.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
They had a good sense whether.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
They liked it or not, they they had to feel
through scouting and through playing that game of what how
we play, the pace we play, and how it felt.
So I was able to describe our style really through
that and it just happened as well. So that's the
uniqueness of you know, Xavier and Texas playing so late
(11:57):
in the season.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So that was that was part of it.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
There was helpful, But I thought, you know, the number
one thing that we tried to establish is that we
would love to have the returning players back that we're
gonna put together a program that they would want to
be a part of, in a winning program where we
could grow and build what's already in place. So I'm
thrilled about a lot of things moving forward and excited,
(12:21):
but the returning Texas players is at the top of
that list.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'm I'm excited to coach them.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Can you talk about your decision to retain Chris Agden, Yeah, Olgie,
it is an easy decision for me because you know,
he's so well rounded with his background. You know, former
mister basketball as a player, player who had choices and
chose the University of Texas, a winning player, very popular
and with his teammates during his time, and then he
(12:52):
became a coach for coach Barnes and uh and and
had a long period of time both Texas, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know Chris By here, who I respect the great
deal as coach, so he knows the game, became the
head coach. Think about that power right there, just ran
his own program four period of time, and he did.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It in the state of Texas.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So to have him in today's world as a general
manager talking to the people, knowing the community in Austin,
it became an easy decision.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
And he's been.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So instrumental and also very helpful to our entire staff
and program moving forward here of these I guess first
two months plus.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Is he a good recruiter in these days? Chris? Yeah,
you know he's.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Limited because of his role as as a non economy coach.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, but he knows, he knows what to do and
how to do it. He very experienced in season. I
can't I don't think I can even comment. Set up
from a high school recruiting perspective as well. You know,
how has that been for you.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Guys as far is just like I said, even recruiting
center hit such as four and then even some of
the stop top kids in Texas such trying to get it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We want we want to recruit the high school players
moving forward, you know, to the earlier question, I think that,
you know, it's a blend of transfers, retention, and incoming.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
High school players.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You can develop them, you can retain them, and we
have such an amazing state that I don't think it
would be in our best interest to not make the
state of Texas and the best high school players in
the state a huge.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Priority to not do that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I don't know if you can maximize who we are
as a basketball program in university, So recruiting high school players.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
You're going to see us active.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I also don't think our entire team or classes of
five or six are going to be a part of
our future. But getting the right two or three, three,
sometimes maybe even four in a class and then in
trying to then add players to the spring, that's that's
our philosophy.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's long. Warren's head basketball coach On Miller was interesting.
He was talking about Chris Hogden being retained as the
general manager of the program and his ties to coaches
and coaching and basketball in the state of Texas, and
somebody asked him about Chris's son, Bo, who is a
(15:18):
really good high school basketball player playing at the private
school level. He said, I didn't think I comment.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
On it, which he can't now.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That will never stop the media from asking the question there,
but sehn Miller, like some of the other head coaches,
smart enough not to engage in that
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