THE MILLER FILE

PERSONAL

Hometown: Bowling Green, Ohio
Education: Bowling Green State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014-15: LSU (Assistant Director of Personnel)
2016: USC (Assistant Director of Personnel)
2017: LSU (Assistant Director of Personnel)
2018-19: Bowling Green (Director of Football Operations and Player Personnel)
2020: Bowling Green (General Manager)
2021: East Carolina (Director of Player Personnel and Recruiting)
2022-23: Duke (Recruiting General Manager)
2024-: Texas A&M (Recruiting General Manager)

POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE

2014: Music City Bowl (LSU)
2015: Texas Bowl (LSU)
2016: Rose Bowl (USC)
2017: Citrus Bowl (LSU)
2021: Military Bowl (ECU)
2022: Military Bowl (Duke)
2023: Birmingham Bowl (Duke)
2024: Las Vegas Bowl (A&M)

Derek Miller joined the Texas A&M football staff as the recruiting general manager. Miller served in the same role for head coach Mike Elko for two seasons at Duke.

With the Blue Devils, Miller oversaw advance scouting and recruiting efforts for the football program, while administering camps and clinics. He was a student manager at Bowling Green State University when Elko was the defensive coordinator for the Falcons (2012-13).

Miller made the move to Duke after spending the 2021 season at East Carolina as the director of football player personnel and recruiting. While there, he coordinated prospect visits, on-campus evaluations, walk-on tryouts, creative media oversight and served as the scouting coordinator.

Before his time in Greenville, North Carolina, Miller was the director of football operations and player personnel at his alma mater, Bowling Green, before being elevated to the general manager. In 2020, he directed all non-coaching aspects of the program, which included budget management, recruiting, academic and APR monitoring, team travel, summer camps, community service, Pro Day and daily operations. From a recruiting standpoint, Miller led the identification, evaluation and acquisition process, along with organizing prospect visits and providing creative leadership to the team's social media and graphics efforts.

Prior to a one-year, off-campus position as the director of football sales with Front Rush, LLC in Charlotte, N.C., Miller served as the assistant director of personnel at LSU (2017, 2014-15) and USC (2016).

During that time, he played an integral part in organizing three consensus national top-five recruiting classes. In his second stint with the Tigers, Miller targeted and evaluated national prospects, planned recruiting travel itineraries for coaches and was the program's NFL liaison. While with the Trojans, which included a thrilling 52-49 Rose Bowl win over Penn State, Miller coordinated and presented prospect film evaluations to offensive staff members, had oversight of student employees and assisted the special teams coordinator on game day.

Miller also served in a supporting role for three collegiate running backs who ranked among the top-five all-time in rushing yards at their respective institutions, including Leonard Fournette (LSU) and Ronald Jones (USC). In addition, he has worked alongside 87 NFL Draft picks throughout his professional career.

As an undergraduate at Bowling Green, Miller joined the football program as a student manager in 2012 under then-head coach Dave Clawson. He graduated in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in sports management and a minor in psychology and was part of the Falcons’ 2013 Mid-American Conference championship team.