Miller is at his proper level at Xavier, like Shaka is at his proper level at Marquette. He should be the absolute floor after we've struck out on the top targets and didn't find anyone on a wide search who screams "hire me". If it's him, maybe we did to that. Or maybe CDC didn't want to risk his reputation on an up-and-comer after striking out on the big names.
He was a better big school coach when the name of the game was recruiting in the old fashion way (dirty recruiting + traditional recruiting). Now it's almost entirely NIL, and the other aspects of coaching have taken over more of the coaching success pie, and he's pretty average in those regards from what I can tell, which at least is much better than Terry, but it's difficult to see him building us up into a truly great program
If it's Miller, I'd like to hear the autopsy of what went wrong the past two years. In terms of conference finish and seeding, his first year at Xavier he finished 2nd in the conference regular season was 3-seed in the tournament. Last year they were 8th in the Big east and went to the NIT, and this year was a 4th place finish and 11 seed. Was he unable to acquire/keep talent due to NIL? Did they have injuries? Because on the surface that recent resume shouldn't level you up to the Texas job, so there should be more context, but if they were just broke and he couldn't compete with NIL, then it's a bit more understandable