Archie Miller officially joined forces with the University of Dayton to stabilize a recently tumultuous men's basketball program.

Within a week of eight-year head coach Brian Gregory leaving for the Georgia Institute of Technology, Archie Miller was announced as the new replacement at a press conference on Sunday, April 3, at the UD Arena Time Warner Cable Flight Deck.

Archie Miller, 32, most recently was the associate head coach at the University of Arizona under his brother Sean Miller, a former leader at Xavier University. Archie Miller previously also served as an assistant or staff member at his alma mater North Carolina State University, Western Kentucky University, Arizona State University and Ohio State University.

UD vice president and director of athletics Tim Wabler said Archie Miller filled all his key categories of "integrity," "experienced consistent conference success," NCAA Tournament history, and "someone who will have a great connection with team."

Wabler expressed confidence in his selection before introducing the new head coach to the podium at the press conference.

"I believe that Archie Miller is the right person for this time in Dayton Flyer basketball," Wabler said.

The new Flyers head coach began his speech by thanking the school administrators for their faith in him. Archie Miller said he learned tremendously from his brother, his former coach father Tom Miller and from his previous stops as an assistant.

Addressing many faculty and staff members, the media, the team's players and more at the conference, Archie Miller set the basic foundations for the future of UD men's basketball.

"Our program here at Dayton is about total development," he said. "What I mean by total development is our student-athletes, these young men sitting here and the ones that we approach about coming here, they have to be about developing and being developed spiritually, academically, socially and physically as a basketball player and as an athlete in general."

He said he knew all about the long line of successful previous coaches at Dayton. In introducing his team's basketball identity, he said it will be very similar to how the current players performed under Gregory.

"Our style of play is going to be one of which we will never have a problem selling," Archie Miller said. "We'll be a tough minded, high energy, nasty defense in the half court, a lot like these guys have been taught to do, you know, some of the same effort but just a little different language in the way you talk it."

Many of the Flyer players said they were inspired by the language used by their new coach. They spoke with high anticipation of the upcoming transition process, and said they were confident in his abilities.

"I mean, just, I'm ready to play for him," junior forward Luke Fabrizius said. "He's ready to get his system put in place right away. And I think we're ready to buy into that system, and it's exciting to think about what we could accomplish especially with the goals he's set, so it should be great."

Those high goals should be a staple of this new stage in the program's history, and the new UD leader is hopeful for a collaborative path to success.

"The University of Dayton has a lot of Flyers everywhere, and they are all welcome," Archie Miller said. "We need them, more than ever before, as we start a journey that hopefully is something that we look back upon and say, 'It's never been done better.'"

View some photos from the press conference