 Dye's 156–91 record () with the Huskies ranks him as the fourth winningest coach in UW basketball history, behind Hall of Fame coaches Hec Edmundson (488 wins) and Marv Harshman (246 wins), as well as current coach Lorenzo Romar (298 wins (March 2017)).Long desiring an administrative role, Dye left Seattle in 1959 to become the athletic director at Wichita State University, at an annual salary of $13,000.After three years, he moved up to the Big Eight Conference at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1962.