Q&A: Boopie Miller on transfer to SMU, experience in the ACC

SMU transfer guard Boopie Miller met with the media on Wednesday at the ACC Tip-Off event in Charlotte. Here’s what the former Wake Forest guard had to say.

Q. You know the league pretty well. How is it that you will use your knowledge of the ACC in imparting what to expect from your teammates?

BOOPIE MILLER: Basically being in the league last year helped a lot make a name for myself as well. Coming into the league this year you know just giving that exposure to my teammates, letting them know what’s going to happen and the type of crowds and arenas we go to. Just helping them on that standpoint and just trying to win games moving forward.

Q. Just kind of going off of that experience in the ACC being at Wake Forest and knowing what this conference looks like, do you feel that it’s not getting the respect that it deserves and that maybe that can change this season? We hear undervalued from the Commissioner. Do you get a sense for that as well having played within it and knowing the talent that’s in this conference?

BOOPIE MILLER: I definitely feel like it’s going to come. We have a lot of NBA players that came out of the ACC, so the respect is going to come both ways, so competing every single night and bringing the new three teams to this league is going to help us get better and better in the ACC.

Q. Hardest arenas to play in.

BOOPIE MILLER: Hardest arenas to play in I would say the NC State arena. The fans were crazy. It was loud. The loudest gym I’ve ever played in, so I would definitely say the NC State arena.

THE MODERATOR: On a lighter note, for those that don’t know, how did the name Boopie come about?

BOOPIE MILLER: My mom’s brother name was Boobie who passed away, so she put the P at the end and called me Boopie.

Q. Building on that question, what’s your mom call you when she gets really mad at you? Does she use your middle name?

BOOPIE MILLER: She calls me Boopie. She don’t really use the — I know moms say the whole name, but she calls me Boopie. But she doesn’t really get mad at me. I’m a good kid, so that’s good.

THE MODERATOR: Describe Chuck Harris in one word.

BOOPIE MILLER: Spectacular.

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