A Quick Timeout with Coach Tony Miller
Sep 8, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
A clip from a recent interview Coach Tony Miller did with the JAMODI podcast. He and Coach Matt Sayman talk being a transformational coach within your unique program culture…
Matt SaymanGuest
Tony MillerHost
And the way that your former head coach, your former boss led you and kind of showed you, what does it mean to really do this, which is you're going to go places.
He made a comment about how it seems to him that younger coaches are getting out of this profession more and more, maybe especially at the high school level.
I asked him why, and he said, well, you got the natural pressures of parent things and stuff like that, but then just also with what education brings to the table, the fact that, like my principal said, Matt, you're getting 90% of what you're getting paid for is the classroom, not basketball.
In my head, I still was thinking, I don't really believe that, but They, it's just something that, that a lot of young coaches, they, they, they get into it thinking, can't wait to be in the gym.
And it's a way for us to be far away and still have this talk, but go to clinics in person, go out to go to other schools down the road, go to colleges and just sit and listen and learn and But we could tell them to do that.
And you could take that almost every direction with if culture really is important.
And the way that your former head coach, your former boss led you and kind of showed you, what does it mean to really do this, which is you're going to go places.
He made a comment about how it seems to him that younger coaches are getting out of this profession more and more, maybe especially at the high school level.
I asked him why, and he said, well, you got the natural pressures of parent things and stuff like that, but then just also with what education brings to the table, the fact that, like my principal said, Matt, you're getting 90% of what you're getting paid for is the classroom, not basketball.
In my head, I still was thinking, I don't really believe that, but They, it's just something that, that a lot of young coaches, they, they, they get into it thinking, can't wait to be in the gym.
And it's a way for us to be far away and still have this talk, but go to clinics in person, go out to go to other schools down the road, go to colleges and just sit and listen and learn and But we could tell them to do that.
And you could take that almost every direction with if culture really is important.
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