Archie Miller, Dayton Agree on New Contract: Latest Details, Comments, Reaction

The Dayton Flyers announced Wednesday that they have extended the contract of head basketball coach Archie Miller through the 2023 season and given him a pay increase.   

Dayton's vice president and director of athletics, Neil Sullivan, spoke about the decision:

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Our relationship with Archie continues to recognize the exceptional achievement of our men's basketball program under his leadership and strongly affirms our mutual commitment to long-term success. We share a common vision of graduating student-athletes, consistently competing for conference championships and advancing in the NCAA Tournament. I look forward to pursuing those goals together.

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Miller, 37, has spent the past five seasons at Dayton, accumulating a 115-55 record in that time. The Flyers have reached the NCAA tournament three seasons in a row and finished 25-8 this season, finishing as Atlantic 10 regular-season co-champions.

The No. 7-seeded Flyers lost 70-51 in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 10 Syracuse, however.

It isn't terribly surprising that Dayton locked up its coach for the long term. Once Jamie Dixon left Pittsburgh to coach TCU, Miller's name was one of many floated as a potential replacement for Dixon, along with his older brother, Sean, the coach at Arizona. 

Of course, Miller probably won't stay at Dayton forever. He's one of the top young coaches in college basketball, and as Gary Parrish of CBS Sports wrote on Tuesday amid the Pittsburgh buzz, "Sources have told CBS Sports that Archie Miller will likely remain patient and wait for something better, which he'll surely be offered in the next few years."

So for the time being, the Flyers still have Miller. But if one of college basketball's bigger programs comes knocking in the near future—and if Miller continues to have success at Dayton, those programs assuredly will come knocking—it's likely the coach will head on to bigger and better things.

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