A roundtable of former coaches is one of the items planned for the 2012 IBCA Spring Clinic. This year’s panel features a trio of Hall of Fame coaches – Mike Broughton, Jim Miller and Ed Siegel – who will offer their expertise on building programs that stand the test of time.
Here is more info on each of the panelists.
Mike Broughton
Mike Broughton coached Indiana high school basketball at the varsity level for 21 years, compiling a career record of 350-145 in stops at Hebron, Rushville, Castle and Jeffersonville.
A native of Hebron, Broughton began his head coaching career in 1979 at his alma mater for two seasons (30-13). He moved to Rushville for three seasons (29-37) and Castle for six (81-55) before a 10-year stint at Jeffersonville (210-40). His time with the Red Devils included the 1993 state championship, five Hoosier Hills Conference titles and duties as the 1996 Indiana All-Star head coach.
As a high school coach, Broughton’s teams won nine sectionals, five regionals and three semistates. He was honored five times as HHC Coach of the Year, twice recognized as a Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year and was the 1993 Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association state Coach of the Year.
Broughton moved to the college ranks in 2000, first as an assistant to Barry Collier for three seasons at the University of Nebraska. He then became head coach at Southern Nazarene University, an NAIA school in Bethany, Okla. His teams there went 109-55 mark in five seasons, including two NAIA national tournament appearances.
Broughton currently is Athletic Director at Jennings County High School and is a 2012 inductee into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Pat, have three children and five grandchildren.
Jim Miller
Jim Miller posted a 607-251 record in 37 seasons as an Indiana high school boys basketball coach at six schools, finishing his career with an 11-year stint at New Albany and twice taking teams to the State Finals in the non-class format.
Previously, Miller coached at Cloverdale, Penn, Kokomo Haworth, Warsaw and Huntington North. Together, his teams won 16 conference championships, two Putnam County championships, seven holiday tournaments, 18 sectionals, five regionals and two semistates – advancing to the final four with Cloverdale in 1966 and New Albany in 1994.
His 1965-66 team at Cloverdale had the state’s best record at 27-2, which came as part of a 40-game regular-season winning streak. At New Albany, his teams compiled a 51-game home-court winning streak.
Miller took his expertise international, working at clinics in Africa in 1984 and in Australia in 1988, 1989 and 1990, and he received multiple awards for his excellence. He was an IBCA District Coach of the Year in 1975 at Penn as well as in 1992 and 1994 at New Albany.
Also, Miller was an assistant coach for the Indiana All-Stars in 1988 and the Indiana nominee for National Coach of the Year in 1988. In addition, he coached in a National East-West All-Star Game in 1995 in Atlanta. He had a 6-2 record as coach of various all-star games.
A 1954 graduate of Avon High School and a 1959 graduate of Franklin College, Miller has been inducted into both schools’ halls of fame – Avon in 2008 and Franklin College in 1995. He also was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Penn High School Hall of Fame in 2011.
Ed Siegel
Ed Siegel coached 33 years of Indiana high school basketball with tenures at Stillwell (two years), Southwestern (Shelby) (two years), Boonville (four years) and Pike (25 years). During that span, Siegel’s teams compiled a 458-229 record while winning 22 different championships.
While at Pike, from 1970-95, the Red Devils won the school’s first conference, Marion County Tournament, sectional and regional championships. Along the way, he also coached four Indiana All-Stars, served as an Indiana All-Star assistant coach in 1989 and was recognized with the Sagamore of the Wabash award from Gov. Otis Bowen in 1980.
Siegel’s teams won six sectionals (two at Boonville and four at Pike) as well as two regionals (both at Pike), and he collected Coach-of-the-Year honors on 15 occasions.
A native of New Albany, Siegel was a member of New Albany’s first Final Four team in 1950 and earned seven varsity letters at the school. He then played four seasons at Franklin College, three years as a starting guard, and earned 10 varsity letters. He later served in the U.S. Army and earned a master’s degree in economics from Indiana University.
While a coach, Siegel served on the IBCA Board of Directors from 1978-82, was president of the IBCA in 1980 and conducted the IBCA weekly coaches’ poll from 1978-95. He also served as on-court director of the Hoosier Basketball Magazine Top 40 Senior Workout from 1988-95 and was an IBCA clinic director from 1979-95.
Siegel was inducted into the Franklin College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2004, the Pike High School basketball facility was named the Edward A. Siegel Gymnasium.
Since 1998, Siegel has served on the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors and has chaired the Silver Anniversary Team and Hall of Fame Classic selection committees. He currently is a Director Emeritus for the Indiana Basketball of Fame.
Siegel and his wife, Carmen, have three children and five grandchildren.
