I'm willing to give Miller a couple of years before I fully judge him, but he is off to a pretty weak start. He is recruiting well, and those recruits will take some time to develop. Mainly I want to see improvement through the year, and from year to year. As long as that improvement continues, I can be patient. He has done a very poor job of building excitement among the fanbase though.
Saint Beard is 6-4 at Ole Miss in year 3, so it isn't like he has built an absolute juggernaut there. I can agree that his first squad at UT looked better than this one, but that team had All Big-12 Andrew Jones and Courtney Ramey returning, plus Febres who had 60 starts... which is vastly better than what Miller returned. And they still managed to lose 12 games and beat literally nobody better than Stanford in Nov/Dec.
This year was a full rebuild and we added some decent upside multi-year players in Vokietaitis (SO), Wilcher (SO), Duru (FR) and John Clark (Redshirt). Heide (JR) should also return. And add to that:
Austin Goosby, SG - #27 National Recruit - 4-star
Bo Ogden, SF - #37 National Recruit, 4-star
Joe Sterling, SG - #105 National Recruit, 4-star
If he does well in the portal, we could have an improved squad. If he doesn't, then we will be bottom half of the SEC or worse.
On the plus side, next year will be a good year to get better season tickets because interest in the program is absolutely dead.