“@zkeefer: Source tells The Star the vacant #Butler head coaching job will come down to Brandon Miller or LaVall Jordan.”
“@zkeefer: Miller interviewed with athletic director Barry Collier on Wednesday. Jordan is set to interview today, according to the source. #Butler”
Being Trey Burke's position coach Michigan is a nice topper on Jordan's resume - but his 4 years as a starting guard at Butler (for Brad Collier and Thad Mata), 3 years as an assistant at Butler to Todd Lickliter (he went with Lickliter to Iowa in 2007), and now 4 years with Beilien at Michican is a heckuva resume. Butler wan'ts to keep it in family - Jordan is family.
Miller just rejoined the Butler staff in April, replacing Matthew Graves (he left for the head gig at South Alabama - reports are they reached out to him first, but he's going to honor the SA committment). Some Butler friends tell me that with Miller they need to feel out how that effects current assistants Terry Johnson and Michael Lewis - they hope to maintain some "Stevens" continuity thru the transition year (new coach, new conference) - they've got a 4 man frosh class coming in this year that COULD ask for their releases. Mater Dei (California) guard Elijah Brown, especially. Randy Bennett really wanted him at St. Mary's, but he opted to play for Brad Stevens. And St. Mary's just lost 2013 recruit (and former New Mexico Player of the Year) Cullen Neal - he was released from his LOI when his dad Craig got the Head Coaching job at New Mexico.