Outgoing University of Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne was not the one who brought Sean Miller to Tucson in 2009 — that was former AD Jim Livengood — but the two have worked together since 2010 and formed a “great relationship” in the process.
And when Miller held his weekly press conference Monday, naturally the head coach was asked about Byrne’s departure, and this was his response:
“First of all, I’m happy for Greg and his family. There’s really two levels to him leaving. Number one, I have a hard time believing that any athletic director anywhere did a better job for a university than he did for us here at Arizona in the seven years that he was here.