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November 30, 2012

UPDATE: ISU football coach Trent Miles leaving for Georgia State

Todd Golden The Tribune-Star The Tribune Star Sat Dec 01, 2012, 02:50 AM EST

TERRE HAUTE — Indiana State’s football ship has been righted under Trent Miles’ watch. But the man who captained the ship has sailed.

Miles has left the ISU program to take the head coaching position at Georgia State University.

Miles, who has been ISU’s football coach since the 2008 season, confirmed the news on Friday night after a meeting with the football team at Memorial Stadium at 6 p.m.

Georgia State, based in Atlanta, will have a press conference on Monday to announce Miles as the Panthers’ coach.

Miles, a Terre Haute native who played at ISU, said the decision to depart his hometown and his alma mater wasn’t taken lightly.

“It’s very difficult when your kids are in school and they have friends. Your mother isn’t a spring chicken anymore and she’s alone because of my father passing away. I have all my family here and my friends,” Miles said after the meeting.

“It’s difficult, but at the same time, it’s a chance to be a Division I football coach and advance my career,” he added.

Miles was 20-36 in five seasons as ISU’s coach. The Terre Haute native inherited a program widely considered to be the worst in Division I football.

ISU was winless in 2008 and had a one-win season in 2009 before it turned the corner and has had three consecutive winning seasons since then. The three-straight winning seasons are the first for the Sycamores since 1967-69.

“I take a great deal of pride in what happened here. This is my hometown and alma mater. I’m extremely proud. It doesn’t matter who’s coaching here now,” Miles said. “This program is in a situation where whoever takes over is taking over a top 20 football team with weapons and youth. I feel really good about what’s going on here.”

Miles told ISU Director of Athletics Ron Prettyman that he would resign to take the Georgia State job at 8:30 a.m. Friday. Prettyman and Miles spent four hours together on Friday planning the transition to Miles’ successor.

“We talked through transition issues and I picked his brain on some things I need to be aware of in the transition,” Prettyman said. “I’m awfully happy for Trent. It’s a great opportunity for him to have a FBS job. He gets a tremendous increase in salary.”

Miles declined to discuss contract terms he agreed to at Georgia State.

ISU’s players filed into Memorial Stadium as dusk grew and Miles delivered the news to them in a 15-minute meeting. Emotions were mixed as the players filed out of the locker room.

“Some took it hard and some understand, but at the end of the day, it’s best for him. Being recruited by Coach Miles, he tells you things you believe in, and it’s tough to hear him leave. But that’s just part of this business,” ISU cornerback Johnny Towalid said.

Perhaps no player embodies the Miles era at ISU more so than linebacker Aaron Archie, who was part of his first recruiting class and who was with Miles for all five of his seasons.

“I have so much respect for coach Miles. I’ve been here since day one and he’s done nothing but good by me,” Archie said. “It’s sad to see him go, but then again, it’s better for him and his family.”

Georgia State was a Football Championship Division program in the Colonial Athletic Association, but the Panthers are moving up to FBS football and the Sun Belt Conference in 2013.

Miles said he interviewed with Georgia State after the conclusion of the season. The deal was finalized on Thursday and Miles alerted the ISU team on Friday.

“We got together after the season. They were very professional and first-class. They treated everyone with respect and treated Indiana State with respect,” Miles said.

Georgia State was 1-10 last season, its only win was a 41-7 victory over winless Rhode Island. The program was started in 2009 by former Alabama and Kentucky coach Bill Curry.

The situation Miles inherits at the Atlanta school has similarities to the situation ISU was in when he arrived in Terre Haute. It will be a building job.

“My philosophy won’t change, it’ll just be a different place. Very few coaches have opportunities like this, especially African-American coaches. [Georgia State athletic director] Cheryl Levick is a great person and I love the way she approaches everything,” said Miles, who looks forward to be in fertile recruiting ground in the southeast.

Georgia State hired another Indiana-based coach – former IUPUI men’s basketball coach Ron Hunter – in March.

On Tuesday, it was reported by an internet site that Miles would take Western Michigan’s open job, but that turned out to be inaccurate. Miles said he never spoke with Western Michigan … it was Georgia State that had its eye on Miles.

Miles thanked ISU for the opportunity to advance his career.

“I want to thank Indiana State and Ron Prettyman for giving me that first [head] coaching job. I’ve grown and learned as I went. If it wasn’t for them and the players giving me that chance, I wouldn’t have the chance,” Miles said.

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• Etherington, Moore happy to be with ISU basketball

  Not even two weeks into their college experience, Indiana State freshmen men’s basketball players Alex Etherington and Demetrius Moore stood sentinel as 115 kids ran around them collecting basketballs and getting autographs at the Greg Lansing Basketball Camp on Thursday.

  June 14, 2013  

• ISU's Johnson invited to World University Games

  Indiana State senior Felisha Johnson will be traveling the world this summer after being named to represent the United States in the women’s shot put at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.

  June 12, 2013  

• FROM THE PRESS BOX: Close, but no cigar, theme for ISU sports in 2012-13

  When I covered my first event of Indiana State’s 2012-13 season — ISU’s opening football game at Indiana — I was the first one in the press box at IU’s Memorial Stadium. I’m never the first one in the press box.
  Maybe the prospect of ISU’s season had me so pumped that I decided to get it started close to three hours early? (Or more truthfully, maybe I was over-vigilent about predicted traffic horrors on the Indiana 46 bypass that never came to pass.)

  June 9, 2013 4 Photos  

• Q&A: ISU football coach Mike Sanford ready for fall

  It’s hard to believe, but Mike Sanford has already been Indiana State’s football coach for six months.
  Time flies, but Sanford’s task of preparing for his first season in charge of the Sycamores comes with few breaks.

  June 9, 2013  

• Rex streak ends at 7

  The Terre Haute Rex table setters — Kyle Kempf and Tyler Wampler — had three of the team’s eight hits Friday at Bob Warn Field, but the Rex offense found itself in a big early deficit for the first time this season.

  June 8, 2013 2 Photos  

• Manaea’s selection puts ISU in spotlight

  Once the stress and hang-wringing over where Indiana State pitcher Sean Manaea might get drafted was over, the angst subsided and was replaced with a happier emotion. Pride.

  June 8, 2013  

• ISU’s Hope places 13th in NCAA pole vault

  Indiana State senior Nicole Hope concluded her final competition of the 2013 outdoor season on Friday as she tied for 13th in the women’s pole vault at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

  June 8, 2013  

• Metro roundup: Former Sycamores take talents to CFL

  Former Indiana State players Johnny Towalid and Justin Hilton were signed by teams in the Canadian Football League this week.

  June 8, 2013  

• Exit Minnesota, enter Oregon State on 2016 football schedule

  When the Big Ten Conference implemented a nine-game football schedule starting in 2016 and discouraged members from playing Football Championship Subdivision teams, there was one game on Indiana State’s future schedule that was likely on borrowed time.
  ISU’s scheduled game at Minnesota in 2016.

  June 7, 2013  

• ISU's Manaea selected 34th overall by Royals

  Indiana State pitcher Sean Manaea selected 34th overall by the Kansas City Royals.

  June 6, 2013 1 Photo  

• ISU's Manaea is mystery man of MLB Draft

  There is no consensus as to where Manaea might be drafted. Some experts still have him being chosen among the top 20 picks. Some don’t have him being picked in the first round at all.

  June 6, 2013 2 Photos  

• ISU's Johnson, Wise compete at NCAA nationals

  Indiana State's Felisha Johnson and Katie Wise competed at the NCAA Track an Field Nationals at the University of Oregon.

  June 6, 2013  

• Sycamores ready for more NCAA track success

  Five of the six Indiana State athletes in Eugene, Ore., already have had some memorable track and field careers for the Sycamores.
  But they’ll go ahead and try to add to their list of accomplishments in the NCAA outdoor championships this weekend.
  Dustin Betz has been a scorer and key piece of eight Missouri Valley Conference championship teams between track and cross country. He’ll compete today in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as the Sycamores’ second best in the event behind Jordan Fife.

  June 5, 2013 1 Photo  

• Mike Lucas joins ISU football staff

  What traits do head football coaches seek out when they hire position coaches?
  Indiana State football coach Mike Sanford provided insight into that question as he hired former Southeast Louisiana head coach Mike Lucas to his staff Tuesday. Lucas will be the Sycamores’ defensive line coach.
  “You have to look at your staff and see what you need. I felt like in this particular case, I wanted an experienced defensive line coach. I feel like we have a mixture of experience and youth and I want to keep that going,” Sanford said.

  June 5, 2013  

• Sycamores bow out of MVC Tournament

  Indiana State’s baseball was out of pitching, and after a loss to Wichita State on Thursday, the Sycamores were out of second-chances too at the Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament. What the Sycamores weren’t out of was heart, guts and clutch performances from some unlikely sources. But in the end, Friday’s elimination game rematch against the Shockers was a sampling of ISU’s season overall — the Sycamores were out of luck.

  May 25, 2013  

• Four Indiana State athletes advance to NCAA outdoor track and field championships

  Three Indiana State seniors and a freshman have punched their tickets to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in two weeks at Eugene, Ore., with their Friday efforts in the 2013 NCAA East Preliminary at Aggie Stadium on the campus of North Carolina A&T.

  May 25, 2013  

• ISU baseball hoping Manaea can get its MVC Tournament moving in right direction

  Indiana State’s baseball team has been waiting all season for its stars to align.
  But this is the 2013 Sycamores, after all, and after a season in which seemingly little has gone right, it appears its stars will remain crossed at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

  May 21, 2013 1 Photo  

• ISU sending largest group yet to postseason

  On the heels of their thrilling double victory at the 2013 Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships both the Indiana State men and women moved up in the national rankings which were released Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

  May 21, 2013  

• ISU's athletic treasure trove

  Think of every championship that Indiana State has won in each of its sports, past and present. Think of every tournament — postseason or regular season — which the Sycamores have claimed as their own.

  May 19, 2013 9 Photos 2 Links  

• Ort sets ISU RBI record in 16-7 win

  Robby Ort celebrated his Indiana State baseball Senior Day on Saturday by becoming the Sycamores’ all-time leader in RBIs as ISU ended its regular season with a 16-7 win over Bradley at Bob Warn Field.

  May 19, 2013  

• Bradley ends 16-game MVC losing streak against ISU

  Momentum was the only thing riding on Indiana State’s baseball game against Bradley on Friday. With a five-game winning streak going, ISU wanted to keep the good vibes going into next week’s Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
  ISU couldn’t do it.

  May 18, 2013  

• Indiana State to host 2014 MVC baseball tourney

  Build it… and they will come. The Missouri Valley Conference and Indiana State University made that famous line from the movie “Fields Of Dreams” reality  Thursday.

  May 17, 2013  

• Behind 16 hits and Manaea's pitching, ISU beats Bradley

  Indiana State’s baseball team rode a wild ride of emotion on Thursday.
  First came the public announcement that Bob Warn Field would host the 2014 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Later, Sean Manaea’s availability to pitch ISU’s series opener against Bradley was in doubt.

  May 17, 2013 1 Photo  

• TODD GOLDEN: Don't give up on ISU baseball just yet

  If you had to pick one word that would describe the 2013 Indiana State baseball season, it would have to be frustration.

  May 16, 2013  

• ISU baseball team builds on success with 14-2 rout

  Indiana State’s baseball victory over Alcorn State on Friday would take on more meaning Saturday if the Sycamores could build momentum and pick up on the good work they did in Friday’s ninth-inning rally.
  Mission accomplished.
  The Sycamores were aggressive from the opening inning at the plate and starting pitcher Devin Moore gave them eight valuable and effective innings on the mound as ISU defeated Alcorn State 14-2 at Bob Warn Field.
  “It was a really good experience for everybody. It felt great to finally come out here and put some things together. It’s also really nice when your offense puts a lot of runs on the board,” Moore said.
  Moore’s eight innings of work were as valuable as gold to an ISU team that is short on quality arms due to injury and ineffectiveness. He didn’t allow a hit until the fourth inning and one of the two runs he conceded was unearned.

  May 12, 2013  

• ISU earns badly-needed win

  Alcorn State’s baseball team might be ranked in the bottom 10 in RPI and Indiana State might have never lost to a Southwestern Athletic Conference team. So it wouldn’t appear that a quality win was in the offing when Alcorn State visited Bob Warn Field on Friday.

  May 11, 2013 1 Photo  

• ISU’s Mascari and Hope win MVC track & field titles

  Indiana State produced two champions during the opening day of action in the Missouri Valley Conference track and field championships Friday at Drake. Freshman John Mascari, a Terre Haute native, won the men’s 10,000-meter race and Nicole Hope won the women’s pole vault for the second time in three seasons.

  May 11, 2013  

• ISU pole vault tradition continues with help from its author

  Pole vault is track and field for the adrenaline junkie, Indiana State senior Nicole Hope proclaimed during a recent practice at Marks Field.
  To catapult oneself about 14 feet into the air with a large $500 fiberglass pole on a daily basis is a risky endeavor.
  “We have to be fearless. You can’t be afraid at all,” said Hope, who has also catapulted herself into the NCAA’s elite in the event, ranking 15th in the NCAA with her leap of 13-feet, 9 1/4.

  May 10, 2013 1 Photo  

• Lansing looking for more home games for next fall

  Indiana State’s men’s basketball team is looking for a few good games.
  Home games that is.
  The Sycamores have filled in most of the blanks in their nonconference schedule, but as ever, ISU coach Greg Lansing would like to visit the friendly confines of Hulman Center a bit more often.

  May 3, 2013  

• ISU baseball gets back into rhythm with victory

  Baseball is a rhythm game. With contests every day or five times a week in the case of many college programs, you have the chance to build on success or wallow in a slump.
  Mother Nature took that rhythm away from Indiana State’s team last week. After a 7-1 loss to Indiana on April 24, ISU was supposed to play a three-game series at Tennessee-Martin, but it was wiped out by rain.
  So the rhythm was disturbed, but perhaps that wasn’t a bad thing.
  ISU was in a five-game losing streak before its unintended vacation and the Sycamores made a move in the right direction Wednesday with a 7-0 win over DePauw at Bob Warn Field.
  “It was a disappointing weekend. We went all the way down to Tennessee and didn’t get to play. We sat around in the hotel room. We came here and it was still raining. It was nice to get out and see some live pitching,” ISU center fielder Landon Curry said.

  May 2, 2013 2 Photos  

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