John Miller

Biography

Entering his sixth season with Curt Cignetti and his second in Bloomington, John Miller continues to tutor the running backs after the program reached the College Football Playoff in 2024. Miller joined Cignetti's staff at James Madison as a graduate assistant (2018) and has spent six of the last eight seasons on his staff. The 2017 Colonial Athletic Association Special Teams Player of the Year was Cignetti's running backs coach for four seasons (2021-23) at JMU before he followed to Indiana (2024-). The rushing attack of Justice Ellison (10) and Ty Son Lawton (11) accounted for 23 of Indiana’s program-record-tying 37 rushing touchdowns on the season. The due became the first set of IU running backs – third set of rushing scorers - to reach double-digit touchdowns on the ground in a single season. At JMU, Miller’s running backs room averaged 175.6 yards per game and 1.9 touchdowns per game over 45 games under his watch. Six Dukes running backs eclipsed 500 yards rushing in a season and his group rushed for over 2,000 yards twice. He coached Percy Agyei-Obese to a pair of All-Sun Belt honors over three seasons. After he earned second-team FCS All-America status during the 2020-21 spring season, but an injury limited him to just four games in fall of 2021. The 2020-21 season included first-team All-SBC and 102.4 yards per game on the ground. Agyei-Obese returned to grab third-team All-SBC honors in in 2022 and finished his JMU career ranked No. 2 in both career rushing touchdow