Curt Miller, the only out gay male head coach in pro basketball, says his sport must be more welcoming
pic.twitter.com/vXuqzeHmO2Miller was 23 years old when he took his first job coaching with Cleveland State, and spent the next 10 years as an assistant at the D1 level.
When Bowling Green hired him as its head coach in 2001, he was ready for the gig. The Falcons compiled an impressive 258–92 record during his 11 seasons on the job, including a Sweet 16 appearance in 2006.
Miller left Bowling Green in 2012 for a marquee job at Indiana, before leaving for the pro ranks. Though Miller was out to friends and family for years—he introduced his then-partner and two sons at his first press conference as head women’s basketball coach at Indiana University—he resisted doing a formal story until the made the jump to the WNBA in 2015.
He now says he regrets it.“I wasted a lot of years not being a mentor and not being a role model for that next struggling young person who wanted to chase a career in sports—be it a coach, be it a general manager, be it on the sidelines, or covering sports,” he told me in a 2020 interview.
