UNLV calls Miller trip ‘dead issue’

Thursday, April 22, 1999 | 11:27 a.m.

UNLV senior associate athletic director Jerry Koloskie said he doesn't expect the school's women's basketball program to be penalized as the result of an alleged illegal recruiting trip made by head coach Regina Miller before she was hired by the university.

According to Koloskie, Miller is the subject of a self-report by Western Illinois University to the Mid-Continent Conference, claiming Miller paid her own way to take a recruiting trip to watch Linda Froehlich play in Germany while Miller still was under contract at WIU.

"We have received some information from Western Illinois that during a time before Regina was employed by UNLV, she made a (recruiting) trip to Germany and it has been mentioned that it was a non-permissible trip," Koloskie said.

"This is nothing Regina did (since she has been) here. This is a monitoring issue and it will be handled by the Mid-Continent Conference or WIU. Then, as far as we're concerned, it will be a dead issue."

NCAA rules do not allow coaches to pay for their own recruiting trips. Miller has said she paid her own way to go to Germany on vacation and watched Froehlich, a German native, play while she was there.

After Miller accepted the head coaching job at UNLV, Froehlich was among the first recruits she signed. The 6-2 guard/forward became the 1998-99 WAC scoring champion, averaging 23.5 ppg.

Froehlich has said that when she was being recruited by Miller at WIU, she told Miller she would like to play for her, but not at under-funded WIU.

"I told (Miller) I didn't want to go to Western Illinois if she stayed there but if she (got the) UNLV (job), I would be there," Froehlich said in December.