Basketball osmosis
While Bobby Hurley played professionally and then dabbled in horse racing, Sean Miller began coaching immediately after his playing career ended at Pitt in 1992, latching on as a graduate assistant at Wisconsin for the 1992-93 season.
The way Miller described it on a Pac-12 teleconference call last week, it was his destiny after years of watching his father build that powerhouse at Blackhawk.
“We all are a product of the home we grew up in and the passion and love for the game in the Miller house, I would put second to none,” Miller said. “We as a family learned to love the game of basketball and looked at it from his perspective, that it’s a fundamentals game, it’s a players game and it’s a game that is tremendous.
“I think you just kind of gain that passion to do what you love, love what you do, and he embodied all of those qualities. He was a great coach in his own right… so we all learned an awful lot from him, my brother (Archie) and I in particular.”
