March 13, 2026 • 9 mins
Color Commentator Terry Nelson gives his reaction to Wes Miller being let go.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Five o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen to thirty more. Edger
you see is moving on from Wes Miller. Terry Nelson
radio and TV analysts for UC men's basketball kind enough
to give us a few minutes team now, it's awesome
to have you. This season, we went into it going okay,
they got to make the tournament or else. For Wes
Miller this year macro level. Why did it not work.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The pieces? He didn't put the right cards on the
table at the right times. And that's just been how
it his. I mean, as a player, if I'm a formar,
if I'm a player under with Miller, I love playing
for him because if I'm in that starting lineup, he
will play me way to the end, from beginning to
(00:47):
the end, he will be he will be loyal to
me because I've earned it in practice. However, when there's
bad games, for non productive games from your starters, there's
the reason that you have a bench and those people
on the bench get paid to you do you use
your bench to win games when you need it the most?
(01:11):
And that, unfortunately, that's sort of been the mo O.
Is that making the right adjustments at the right times
has seemed to be the reason that he is no
longer here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Was the way they lost on Wednesday, for you, the
straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was it was because the answers to the tests
were sitting right in front of you. You know, Keyschan
Tillery is having one of his better games. He's come
along strong over the part of the reasons you won
seven out of ten is because Keyshan Tillery was emergence
off the bench. The stoppa was your focus facing the
(01:49):
basket and shooting jump shots. But it was you know,
you only have one point guard. You have two combo
guards and Danae and Jizzle and one point god on
the roster, and that was Keyshan Tillery. And he's the
only guy that consistently breaks this man down and gets
to the basket and makes them happen. And he's a
human press breaker. And for him not to be in
the game when you couldn't get the ball across at court,
(02:11):
either you take Jigsel out because he was having a
hard time getting the ball across, or you take Celestine
out because you don't need points now you need to
spread the floor or get to the free throw line,
get the ball, pass at court. You could have win
three guards and let you know, pass the ball from
Tillery breaking it, or you could have had Baba Miller
(02:32):
bring the ball up and throw over the top of
the double team to the second wave of guards. There's
a pluth roop that could have happened, and neither one happened.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
What are the things that are at the top of
your priority list when you think about who the next
head coach should be.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Does he have in game strategy and does he exude
toughness to the team. I mean, over the last thirty
five years since Huggins over, there's been an imphasis tough
and to see that sort of erode away, to see
(03:11):
on a daily base guys not be held accountable for
the actions that take place on the floor because are
pretty great guys. The town's there. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with the roster. It's how you fashion it. If
every if you're in a cooking contest and everybody has
(03:32):
the same ingredients and your kid turns out differently than
the person right next to you, it's not in the
ingredients and how you prepared it. And if you look
at the guys that it has on this roster, they
were more than capable of winning. It was only every
one or two games that they were not in it.
Every game they had a lead, every game they were competing,
(03:54):
every game they got right there, they could not find
a way to close. And unfortunately, because I like and
a lot of people like Pest and you'll hear a
lot of people say this, and I like him, but
he's my favorite butt Well, I like the way he
did this. There's always an exception at the end of
that because when it comes down to it fired purified
and it reveals what the essence of you already are,
(04:16):
which you really are. And when stuff got close, he
let his emotions get the best of him instead of
thinking clearly and doing the right thing to win the game.
For the supporters and the fan base, the name.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That is going to be brought up most often, at
least here in the early goings of this is is
Jared Calhoun. Who is who has been here right work
for Bob Huggins. Towards the end of Coach Huggins ten
uere at UC is he somebody you know it all?
Are you beyond just knowing that he's coaching at us
Tauh State. Did you become familiar with him at all
while he was here. What do you know about him?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But he was with he was with the James White team.
I know. James White posted a picture on this in
Twitter about that, and he was like, man to take
a look at the roster and see if he was
on the roster, like he even and forgot about it.
But no, he was one of those guys that get
over with Huggs and Eric Martin at West Virginia. He's worked.
(05:12):
When you're a grand assistant, you do a lot of
stuff that you don't get paid for. You're a lot
of hours, a lot of film sessions, a lot of
scouting reports, you're playing basketball. You're doing a lot of
stuff rest work that's just not on your job description.
You're doing whatever it takes, so you outwork a lot
of people because of the position that you're in. And
(05:33):
to see him have success everywhere he's been and to
see that they were they won't yesterday. I don't know
if they what time they played today, but well coached structure,
toughness to it, and they have some strategy at the
end of games. I believe that he would be because
he was the guy. Now obviously, can they can consider
other people as well, But if he was a guy,
(05:56):
I'd be comfortable with that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Uh, you are as close to this pros as anybody
coaches players, people who are connected to it, folks who
fund the program. You've been here for a very long time.
Is what's needed for any head coach in place to
be successful very early during their tenure.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well yes, Well, first of all, let's just say if
it was cay Hole, I wouldn't want to snatch it Personally,
I wouldn't want to snatch him away from his team.
I would want him to finish the tournament and then
come over for a couple of reasons. One, I think
it's unfair for the guys that he coach started alone
to pull him away before he gets a chance, almost
like what we did with football back in the day.
(06:43):
I would like for him to finish because I want
him hardened to NCAA mindset. I want him going and
playing in tough games and using strategy in in game
situations and learning how to win tournament games. I want
his brain spa new dimensions with the NCAA mindset. Whether
(07:04):
he wins the tournament, goes in the final fourstree sixteen,
or whatever I want him playing. I don't want to
snatch him and the team goes to the tournament and
not give him the experience of coaching in the tournament.
When we're hiring him to take us to the tournament
and be successful in the tournament, well, he could probably
take us there. But if he doesn't have the ability
to coach in the tournament because we pulled them away,
(07:26):
he's not growing to the point where we want him
to come in from day one with that mentality, with
the roster to the honestable because the money is there.
I want him to be able to say, look, all
we need is this player. This player, make a little
tweets and changes here, and we can make a deep run.
Because he likes the roster, he likes the environment, he
(07:48):
likes everything that takes to be successful at Cincinnati. He
understands the foundation. It's been better since he's been gone.
And if he returns, whoever returns, I would like them
to have a mentality that, look, NCAA is floor. It
is just the floor. We're not worried about just trying
to get in the NCAA. Guess we haven't been there
in a while, but that's the floor. We have enough
(08:09):
resources to get the talent that we need to make
deep runs every year. Whether we've made the deep runs
every year is not the question. We have the talent,
and we should be in the conversation every year.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh, appreciate the time on short notice. Man. By the way,
Jered Calhoun's team plays on Nevada tonight. I'm rooting for
them just because they're playing Nevada in the Mountain West Tournament.
That game tips off at nine thirty this evening. I
know you have a lot going on, man, I appreciate
you jumping on. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Appreciate you, mo.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's our guy, Terry Nelson, radio analysts for UC basketball.
By the way, the Chad Brendel Conversation is available right
now on the iHeartRadio app. More thoughts ahead, Sports headlines
two ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Station Cincinnati's espneteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center. The new uc
oh Sure Wellness Suite is a home for transformative whole
person well being backed by Science. Register for classes now,
visit UCHealth dot com. Southbound four seventy one at Alexandria Pike.
There's an accident off onto the right shoulder, a two
to three minute delay back from Grand Avenue westbound Ronald
(09:24):
Reagan Highway. Also an accident approaching Galbreath and Western Avenue.
One more crash at Liberty Street on that ezelic with
traffic
Five o'clock. This is ESPN fifteen to thirty more. Edger
you see is moving on from Wes Miller. Terry Nelson
radio and TV analysts for UC men's basketball kind enough
to give us a few minutes team now, it's awesome
to have you. This season, we went into it going okay,
they got to make the tournament or else. For Wes
Miller this year macro level. Why did it not work.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The pieces? He didn't put the right cards on the
table at the right times. And that's just been how
it his. I mean, as a player, if I'm a formar,
if I'm a player under with Miller, I love playing
for him because if I'm in that starting lineup, he
will play me way to the end, from beginning to
(00:47):
the end, he will be he will be loyal to
me because I've earned it in practice. However, when there's
bad games, for non productive games from your starters, there's
the reason that you have a bench and those people
on the bench get paid to you do you use
your bench to win games when you need it the most?
(01:11):
And that, unfortunately, that's sort of been the mo O.
Is that making the right adjustments at the right times
has seemed to be the reason that he is no
longer here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Was the way they lost on Wednesday, for you, the
straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was it was because the answers to the tests
were sitting right in front of you. You know, Keyschan
Tillery is having one of his better games. He's come
along strong over the part of the reasons you won
seven out of ten is because Keyshan Tillery was emergence
off the bench. The stoppa was your focus facing the
(01:49):
basket and shooting jump shots. But it was you know,
you only have one point guard. You have two combo
guards and Danae and Jizzle and one point god on
the roster, and that was Keyshan Tillery. And he's the
only guy that consistently breaks this man down and gets
to the basket and makes them happen. And he's a
human press breaker. And for him not to be in
the game when you couldn't get the ball across at court,
(02:11):
either you take Jigsel out because he was having a
hard time getting the ball across, or you take Celestine
out because you don't need points now you need to
spread the floor or get to the free throw line,
get the ball, pass at court. You could have win
three guards and let you know, pass the ball from
Tillery breaking it, or you could have had Baba Miller
(02:32):
bring the ball up and throw over the top of
the double team to the second wave of guards. There's
a pluth roop that could have happened, and neither one happened.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
What are the things that are at the top of
your priority list when you think about who the next
head coach should be.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Does he have in game strategy and does he exude
toughness to the team. I mean, over the last thirty
five years since Huggins over, there's been an imphasis tough
and to see that sort of erode away, to see
(03:11):
on a daily base guys not be held accountable for
the actions that take place on the floor because are
pretty great guys. The town's there. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with the roster. It's how you fashion it. If
every if you're in a cooking contest and everybody has
(03:32):
the same ingredients and your kid turns out differently than
the person right next to you, it's not in the
ingredients and how you prepared it. And if you look
at the guys that it has on this roster, they
were more than capable of winning. It was only every
one or two games that they were not in it.
Every game they had a lead, every game they were competing,
(03:54):
every game they got right there, they could not find
a way to close. And unfortunately, because I like and
a lot of people like Pest and you'll hear a
lot of people say this, and I like him, but
he's my favorite butt Well, I like the way he
did this. There's always an exception at the end of
that because when it comes down to it fired purified
and it reveals what the essence of you already are,
(04:16):
which you really are. And when stuff got close, he
let his emotions get the best of him instead of
thinking clearly and doing the right thing to win the game.
For the supporters and the fan base, the name.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That is going to be brought up most often, at
least here in the early goings of this is is
Jared Calhoun. Who is who has been here right work
for Bob Huggins. Towards the end of Coach Huggins ten
uere at UC is he somebody you know it all?
Are you beyond just knowing that he's coaching at us
Tauh State. Did you become familiar with him at all
while he was here. What do you know about him?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But he was with he was with the James White team.
I know. James White posted a picture on this in
Twitter about that, and he was like, man to take
a look at the roster and see if he was
on the roster, like he even and forgot about it.
But no, he was one of those guys that get
over with Huggs and Eric Martin at West Virginia. He's worked.
(05:12):
When you're a grand assistant, you do a lot of
stuff that you don't get paid for. You're a lot
of hours, a lot of film sessions, a lot of
scouting reports, you're playing basketball. You're doing a lot of
stuff rest work that's just not on your job description.
You're doing whatever it takes, so you outwork a lot
of people because of the position that you're in. And
(05:33):
to see him have success everywhere he's been and to
see that they were they won't yesterday. I don't know
if they what time they played today, but well coached structure,
toughness to it, and they have some strategy at the
end of games. I believe that he would be because
he was the guy. Now obviously, can they can consider
other people as well, But if he was a guy,
(05:56):
I'd be comfortable with that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Uh, you are as close to this pros as anybody
coaches players, people who are connected to it, folks who
fund the program. You've been here for a very long time.
Is what's needed for any head coach in place to
be successful very early during their tenure.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well yes, Well, first of all, let's just say if
it was cay Hole, I wouldn't want to snatch it Personally,
I wouldn't want to snatch him away from his team.
I would want him to finish the tournament and then
come over for a couple of reasons. One, I think
it's unfair for the guys that he coach started alone
to pull him away before he gets a chance, almost
like what we did with football back in the day.
(06:43):
I would like for him to finish because I want
him hardened to NCAA mindset. I want him going and
playing in tough games and using strategy in in game
situations and learning how to win tournament games. I want
his brain spa new dimensions with the NCAA mindset. Whether
(07:04):
he wins the tournament, goes in the final fourstree sixteen,
or whatever I want him playing. I don't want to
snatch him and the team goes to the tournament and
not give him the experience of coaching in the tournament.
When we're hiring him to take us to the tournament
and be successful in the tournament, well, he could probably
take us there. But if he doesn't have the ability
to coach in the tournament because we pulled them away,
(07:26):
he's not growing to the point where we want him
to come in from day one with that mentality, with
the roster to the honestable because the money is there.
I want him to be able to say, look, all
we need is this player. This player, make a little
tweets and changes here, and we can make a deep run.
Because he likes the roster, he likes the environment, he
(07:48):
likes everything that takes to be successful at Cincinnati. He
understands the foundation. It's been better since he's been gone.
And if he returns, whoever returns, I would like them
to have a mentality that, look, NCAA is floor. It
is just the floor. We're not worried about just trying
to get in the NCAA. Guess we haven't been there
in a while, but that's the floor. We have enough
(08:09):
resources to get the talent that we need to make
deep runs every year. Whether we've made the deep runs
every year is not the question. We have the talent,
and we should be in the conversation every year.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh, appreciate the time on short notice. Man. By the way,
Jered Calhoun's team plays on Nevada tonight. I'm rooting for
them just because they're playing Nevada in the Mountain West Tournament.
That game tips off at nine thirty this evening. I
know you have a lot going on, man, I appreciate
you jumping on. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Appreciate you, mo.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's our guy, Terry Nelson, radio analysts for UC basketball.
By the way, the Chad Brendel Conversation is available right
now on the iHeartRadio app. More thoughts ahead, Sports headlines
two ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Station Cincinnati's espneteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Traffic from the UC Health Traffic Center. The new uc
oh Sure Wellness Suite is a home for transformative whole
person well being backed by Science. Register for classes now,
visit UCHealth dot com. Southbound four seventy one at Alexandria Pike.
There's an accident off onto the right shoulder, a two
to three minute delay back from Grand Avenue westbound Ronald
(09:24):
Reagan Highway. Also an accident approaching Galbreath and Western Avenue.
One more crash at Liberty Street on that ezelic with
traffic
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