Feel free to ask Gadd, he's probably the most connected personto ASU Athletics on this board. He's admitted Sendek may have one eye looking back East while he builds this program in Tempe. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm very aware that Miller will probably bolt to Pitt whenever Jamie Dixon leaves. You just gotta hope the right opportunity and timing do not come along.
I don't know that he's looking to go back to the ACC, but I can see him eventually going back east. I would have been surprised had he left this soon, though. It would run counter to what he's told people in private.
He has privately stated he's excited about this window of opportunity while the Pac-10 is in transition. He also enjoys a strong relationship with Lisa Love and likes that there's zero meddling. This is his program. He's calling all the shots. That just doesn't exist east of the Rockies.
The one thing that's disappointed him, I'm told, is the lack of strong basketball knowledge among players on the West Coast. It's more of a star's mentality here and even the best players in California (outside of Harden) require intensive teaching when they first show up. Players just don't have an innate sense of where to be on the floor on offense or defense like they do back east. It's difficult for him to recruit to his system on the West Coast because his system requires smart players -- in basketball terms, if not in the classroom, although the two seem to go hand-in-hand.
I do think he'll leave eventually, but everything I can assess of him is he wants to leave a healthy program. Nothing (other than this rumor) suggests he's looking to bail soon.
