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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Miller adjusting to demands on time
Normalcy is starting to return to Archie Miller’s life. His wife and child moved to Dayton for good this weekend, even though they haven’t bought a home yet but are living in temporary housing.
That’s still better than trying to see them in Arizona while working non-stop in getting established as the Dayton Flyers’ head coach.
He went back to Tucson last weekend and took a red-eye flight to Dayton on Sunday night so he could be in his office Monday morning.
That’s a killer commute.
“I can’t sleep on planes,” he said.
The biggest adjustment for him so far is the demands on his time. Or rather, the constant conversations the job requires.
He pointed to a hands-free mobile phone clipped to his ear and said: “What you do is spend three hours or four hours in a day talking on a cell phone. I’ve never had one of these things in my life. But I can’t sit here with a cell phone on the side of my head all day.”
I joked that if studies ever show for certain that mobile phones actually are hazardous to our health, he’s in trouble. He laughed and said, “I won’t be the only one.”
Six weeks into the job, Miller discussed the difference in having been assistant for the last 10 years to taking over a prominent program: “You’re not in the back anymore. When you’re walking in and see three guys from the medical staff, you talk to them. You’re constantly talking. … You’re ‘on’ all the time. That’s a good way of putting it.
“I would say that and the balancing of the total program. One thing you worry about as an assistant in the summer is you’re constantly re-energizing recruiting. You’ve also got players in summer school, and you’re worrying about that.
“As a head coach, you have a spring caravan. You have to talk to people and know who you’re talking to. And scheduling is arriving and camp is around the corner and recruiting is around the corner. You can’t be specific and deal with just one. You have to be really organized and deal with it all. As any head coach who took over would tell you, it’s not just coaching games and drawing up plays.”
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