Sean Miller's stock as a recruiter is soaring 

Coaches like Mike Krzyzewski, John Calipari, Billy Donovan, Roy Williams, Tom Izzo and Jim Calhoun are heavyweights when it comes to recruiting, but Arizona knows it has a guy who can go toe-to-toe in recruiting and slug it out with any of them. When it comes to attracting players Sean Miller is becoming a pied piper of sorts and his 2012 class has gotten everyone’s attention.

Whether it was his days as an upcoming assistant at Miami (OH), Pittsburgh, NC State and Xavier or in his time as a coach at Xavier and Arizona, recruiting has seemed to come natural to him. He is a workhorse as a head coach that plays an unusually active role in the recruiting process. Players and families gravitate to him because they are comfortable with his aggressive, without being pushy, demeanor. Because he is fully vested in the process he knows the right buttons to push with recruits; this year’s recruiting class is a testament to what he is capable of doing at a place like Arizona.

The Arizona faithful are fired up about the talent that is being assembled in the desert and what Miller is accomplishing. The Wildcats had lost a little bit of its national swagger during Lute Olson’s transition, but Miller has quickly gotten it back.

This was already considered a great class that featured two outstanding and multi-talented power forwards in Brandon Ashley (Oakland, Calif./Findlay Prep) and Grant Jerrett (La Verne, Calif./La Verne Lutheran) along with one of the nation’s top scorers in Gabe York, but the addition of Kaleb Tarczewski (Orange, Calif./Orange Lutheran) puts this class in rarified air with other special No. 1 classes. Coupled with the 2011 class that featured one of the nation’s best backcourt tandems and finished rated No. 7, it is easy to see why Miller’s stock as a recruiter is going through the roof.

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