The coaching carousel across the area, especially within the Christian County Public Schools, continues to turn. Officials announced Friday that Hopkinsville boys’ basketball coach Larry Miller would be stepping down from the position. Miller told YourSportsEdge.com that he was taking the Evangel Christian boys’ coaching job in Louisville.
With Miller’s resignation, both the boys’ and girls’ basketball head coaching positions at Hopkinsville High School are vacant. The head baseball coaching jobs at both Hopkinsville and Christian County will be open at the end of the current season.
New coaches have already been hired for Hopkinsville boys soccer, Hopkinsville girls soccer, Christian County football, and Christian County boys soccer.
Miller took over the Tigers for the 2018-2019 season, replacing former coach Tim Haworth. In three years, Miller’s teams went 37-36.
The 2018-2019 team went 16-14, losing to Christian County in the 8th District semifinals.
The following season, the Tigers went 14-17, and again saw their season ended by Christian County in the semifinals of the 8th District tournament.
While impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 team was the most successful of his tenure at Hoptown. The Tigers went 7-5, falling to Madisonville North-Hopkins in the 2nd Region semifinals. The Tigers did manage to knock Christian County out of the 8th District semifinals and later take down highly-touted Lyon County on the Lyons’ home court in the opening round of the 2nd Region tournament.
This year’s Tigers also had wins over two state tournament teams, Muhlenberg County and McCracken County.
Miller was named the Tigers’ head coach in June of 2018. Prior to taking over the boys’ program, Miller served as an assistant coach for both the boys’ and girls’ teams at Hoptown.
Miller is no stranger to coaching high school basketball in the Louisville area. Before coming to Hopkinsville, he coached four seasons at Male High School in Louisville where the Bulldogs were 75-54 from 2011-15 and won two district titles and advanced to the Seventh Region semifinals twice.
Prior to Male, Miller coached 16 years at Louisville Moore and won over 200 games. He also has a coaching stop in Ohio where he won a state title. Miller and his 1988 Cincinnati Woodward team were inducted to the 2020 Larosa’s Sports Hall of Fame. That team is the only Cincinnati public school to win the Ohio state championship.
Miller was an assistant coach at the University of Dayton under Jim O’Brien, who went on to the NBA to coach in Boston and Indiana.
