The 2026 season is Miller’s fourth as the head football coach at Oklahoma Panhandle State since his hiring in March 2023.
Head Coaching Highlights at OPSU (Through Three Seasons)
Through the 2025 season at OPSU, Miller’s team and athletes have compiled:
- Two SAC Special Teams Players of the Year
- One SAC Newcomer of the Year
- Four All-SAC First Team players
- Five All-SAC Second Team honors
- 13 All-SAC Honorable Mention awards
- Six CSC Academic-All District members
- Six NAIA Scholar-Athletes
Miller’s tenure at OPSU got off to a successful start in 2023, when he led the Aggies to their first .500 season in five years and coached the Sooner Athletic Conference’s Newcomer of the Year to go with one first-team, one second-team, and seven honorable-mention all-conference honors. Panhandle State posted an identical 5-5 (4-4 SAC) record in 2024, with postseason awards including the SAC Special Teams Player of the Year, two All-SAC First Team Players, and two Honorable Mention All-SAC awardees.
Despite an injury-riddled 2025, Miller guided his players to the most CSC Academic All-District honors in program history (four), as well as a combined five All-SAC First and Second Team players to go with another SAC Special Teams Player of the Year and four All-SAC Honorable Mentions.
Head-Coaching Highlights at Minnesota State CTC (2019-2022)
Prior to assuming his position at OPSU, Miller authored a dramatic success story and turnaround as the head football coach at Minnesota State Community and Technical College.
In 2019, Miller took over the NJCAA Division III program that was coming off three consecutive one-win seasons. Post-COVID in 2021, Minnesota State CTC had its best year ever, winning six games before going on to best that season with a 9-1 record in 2022.
During that 2022 season at Minnesota State CTC, the Spartans started 9-0 and advanced to MCAC Championship Game.
Highlights of his head-coaching stint at Minnesota State CTC included leading the Spartans in becoming the first MCAC school to achieve a No. 1 ranking in the NJCAA DIII National Poll, being named the 2022 MCAC Coach of the Year, winning the 2022 MCAC Regular Season Championship, coaching seven separate players to nine First Team All-American awards, overseeing five players garner Second Team All-American status, guiding his running back to the NJCAA DIII National Offensive Player of the Year in 2022, and coaching three total players to either Offensive or Defensive Player of the Year honors in Region XIII.
Before Minnesota State CTC
Miller was the defensive coordinator at Dakota State University form 2015-2018, where he spearheaded an elite defense featuring three All-American honors. Miller coached two National Defensive Players of the Week, 23 total all-conference defensive players, and, in 2018, the Cliff Harris NAIA Award Winner.
Previous experience included three seasons (2012-2014) as the defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator at Briar Cliff University; stops as a defensive backs coach at Illinois College, MacMurray College, and Rockford University; and time as a graduate assistant at Southwest Minnesota State University from 2006-2007.
Education
Miller graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Sports Psychology, and he holds his Master of Business Administration degree from Rockford University.
Personal
Coach Miller resides in Goodwell, Oklahoma, with his wife, Rachel Miller, and their two dogs, Tebow and Kona.
