Your friend doesn't follow college basketball if he had never heard of Archie Miller. We will be fortunate to do as well.
I would rather give Gerry McNamara the keys than hire the equivalent of an Archie Miller.
Archie Miller hasn't done anything to suggest he can deliver at a good job. He is riding the coattail of his brothers job at Arizona. Sean recruited well at Xavier in the A-10 and showed he had potential.
Sean made the NCAA tournament 4 of 5 years at Xavier.
He won the A-10 regular season 3 times.
He won the tournament another year.
All when the A-10 was better than it is now.
Sean made the Sweet 16 3 times in 5 years.
Another time he lost in OT in the second round to an Ohio State team that made the NC game and his team stupidly didn't foul up 3 at the end of the game.
Sean showed he was legit.
Archie has done less at Dayton. He inherited as decent squad. He hasn't recruited as well as his brother did.
He made one run because Tyler Ennis/Trevor cooney/Michael Gbinije and the entire Syracuse roster couldn't make one three for an entire game and beat us 55-53.
Since that run he has done nothing in the NCAA tournament outside a first round win.
They guy is using his brothers job performance to give off the image he can do the same. Sorry if I don't believe it.
GMac over Miller for me and you know what I think of the former as the next HC.