 Many of the candidates for the job were high-profile coaches of other conference foes.The team opted, however, to hire Dave MacMillan, who had been coaching the University of Idaho for the previous seven seasons and had previously played for the Original Celtics during the 1910s.McMillan would dominate the program for the next 30 years, coaching the team from 1927 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1948.