Miller Expected to Be Named Tustin’s Football Coach

Myron Miller, who helped turn Costa Mesa into a top-10 football team in Orange County, is expected to be named coach at Tustin next week.

Miller will be presented as a candidate to the Tustin Unified School District board when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday, a source close to the process said. Neither Tustin Athletic Director Al Rosmino nor Principal Bob Boies would comment.

If approved by the board, Miller would become the Tillers’ third coach in four years.

Miller declined to comment Friday because of what happened to former Tustin Coach Tim Ellis--who was approved by the Saddleback Valley Unified School District board for the Trabuco Hills job, only to have the offer rescinded.

Meanwhile, Tustin went about replacing Ellis, who remains as a math instructor and track coach. He did not reapply for the football job.

“After the Tim Ellis situation, no one’s going to comment on any candidate,” Boies said.

Ellis was offered a teaching and assistant coaching position at another school in the district, Mission Viejo, but turned it down, according to a source within that district.

Miller took over Costa Mesa in 1992 after the Mustangs finished 3-7 overall and 1-4 in the Pacific Coast League; he went 19-12-3 over three years, won the school’s first outright league championship and reached the Southern Section Division VIII championship game in his second season.

Tustin, which reached the section finals in 1990 and 1991, was 4-16 the past two years under Ellis.