Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson decided keeping Miller would prove even more costly.
Dolson fired Miller on Monday, armed with enough cash from private donations to cover the buyout and ready to answer a fan base angered by four straight mediocre seasons.
“It’s a results-oriented business and I didn’t feel like we had made enough progress," Dolson said on a late afternoon Zoom call. “I thought we needed a new voice and a new direction."
The Hoosiers were already headed in the wrong direction before Miller arrived in March 2017 and four years later, the groans only grew louder.