University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball coach Dan Earl felt like his program was getting a good player when the Mocs found Tyler Millin in the NCAA transfer portal.
The former Middle Tennessee State University forward may have been even better than good, and all it took was a little reshaping of the 6-foot-7 senior’s mindset.
That’s been evident since Millin arrived in Chattanooga, a move that has seemingly given the graduate transfer a new lease on life — or at least on the basketball court.
“It’s confidence,” Millin said recently. “It’s the coaching staff believing in me, trusting me and letting me play with freedom and not just thinking out there. I just feel like myself now. … I haven’t felt like this in a long time. I just feel like how I usually play. At Middle, I was kind of struggling, I had a down year with a lot of mental mistakes, in my head, emotional, thinking if I’m going to come out of the game or not.
“Here I just feel freedom and am loving a new start.”