Miller Elevated to Full-Time Coaching Position
Jan 17, 2002 | Football
Jan. 17, 2002
Del Miller has been elevated to the full-time coaching staff, head football coach Bill Snyder announced Thursday.
Miller, 51, who spent last season in an administrative role at Kansas State, will be in his eighth year at Kansas State in 2002. He has been a member of the Wildcat staff three times and, prior to that, worked with Snyder on Hayden Fry's staff at the University of Iowa.
"Coach Miller is a true professional, a dedicated family man, a loyal and hard worker with a great deal of experience and a wealth of knowledge about our program and how it needs to work," said Snyder. "We are so very pleased to have Del, his wife Jan and three sons (Troy, Tad, Todd) remain in our program."
Miller was a member of Snyder's original coaching staff at Kansas State in 1989, and stayed with the Wildcats until 1994. During that time, he was an assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.
He then went to Southwest Missouri State as the head coach for four seasons (1995-98) before returning to Manhattan in 1999.
Miller then moved to Oklahoma State to serve as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2000 before coming back to the Wildcat program prior to the 2001 season. Last year, he was the assistant director of football operations for the K-State program.
He was an assistant coach at Iowa from 1978 through 1988, coming to the Hawkeyes after head coaching positions at Eagle Grove (Iowa) High (1977-78) and Plainfield (Iowa) High (1972-75).
Miller was a three-year letterman at Central College from 1969-71. He started in the secondary as a sophomore, as a fullback as a junior and as a linebacker during his senior season.
Miller earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Central in 1972 and a master's in physical education at Northern Iowa in 1976.
