[5] The "flashy passer" Miller saw his 1942 season come to an abrupt end at the hands of the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL, who played an exhibition game against the Aero Commandos in Wichita's Lawrence Stadium on November 15, during what would otherwise have been a bye week.

[6] Miller's first coaching position was at Mount Oread High School in Lawrence, and the team consisted primarily of professors' sons.

In 1949, eight years after his ill-fated first attempt at coaching, a friend from Wichita named Fritz Snodgrass sent Miller a telegram asking if he might be interested in returning to guide his son's team at East High School.

In three years at East High, Miller's teams finished second, third and first in the state using his system of execution and pressure basketball.

Miller spent 13 years at Wichita, winning 220 games, earning three NIT berths and a spot in the NCAA tournament in 1964.

In the spring of 1964, Miller left for the Iowa of the Big Ten Conference, where he built one of the greatest offensive juggernauts in NCAA history.

Entering the NCAA tournament, Iowa was on a sixteen-game winning streak and played their first game in the Sweet Sixteen, but were upset by independent Jacksonville,[8] the eventual national runner-up.

[9] Miller had only two losing seasons in 19 years at OSU, and retired as the second winningest head coach in Oregon State history with 359 victories, behind Slats Gill.

Miller retired at age 70 in 1989,[10] his final regular season win was a comfortable one, over rival Oregon at a sold-out Gill Coliseum on Sunday, March 5.

[11] The Beavers lost to top-ranked Arizona in the semifinals of the Pac-10 tourney,[12] then fell in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Evansville at Tucson.

Miller's teams actually won 674 games, but the total was reduced by forfeits because one of his players, Lonnie Shelton, had signed with an agent while still in college in 1976.

[17][18] A dozen years after his retirement, Miller died in his sleep at age 82 at his home at Black Butte Ranch, northwest of Bend.