Texas regents approve Miller’s 6-year, $32M deal

AUSTIN, Texas– The University of Texas System board of regents approved Longhorns basketball coach Sean Miller’s six-year, $32 million guaranteed contract Thursday, as the school attempts to improve a program that had a hard time in its very first year in the Southeastern Conference.Texas will pay Miller about double that of his predecessor Rodney Terry. Terry still had 3 years left on a five-year agreement that paid him about $3 million each year when he was dismissed in March.Miller’s deal begins at$ 4.8 million for the 2025-26 season

and boosts by $200,000 every year through the 2030-31 season. He likewise got a one-time$250,000 relocation payment and can earn as much as$ 850,000 in rewards every season depending on championship game, personal awards and how far Texas advances in the NCAA tournament.Editor’s Picks Texas employed Miller from Xavier after the Musketeers beat Texas in the NCAA tournament in a First Four matchup just a couple of days earlier.The 56-year-old Miller had two stints at Xavier and likewise coached at Arizona. He coached the Musketeers from 2004 to 2009 before leaving for Arizona.

He then returned to Xavier in 2022 after he was fired at Arizona.Miller’s groups have actually made the NCAA competition 13 times with four trips to the Elite Eight. He is 487-196 overall in 20 seasons. He inherits a Texas program wanting to find its footing in the SEC, the dominant league in men’s college basketball this season. Texas completed 14th in the 16-team conference and hardly scraped its method into the NCAA competition before its early exit.Terry led Texas to the Elite 8 as interim coach in 2023, but pressure installed as he had a hard time to keep that success. Texas made fast exits from the competition the previous 2 seasons,

and was simply 6-12 in league play in its very first season in the SEC.Miller deals with a significant rebuild of the Texas roster.Tre Johnson, the SEC Freshman of the Year and the Longhorns’scoring leader last season, declared for the NBA draft, and eight other players either completed their college eligibility

or transferred.Texas has signed transfers Simeon Wilcher from St. John’s, Lassina Traore and Dailyn Swain from Xavier, Matas Vokietaitis from Florida Atlantic and Camden Heide from Purdue.