Brad Holland
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John Bradley Holland (born December 6, 1956, in Billings, Montana
) is a retired American professional basketball
player. He played for four years at UCLA (1976–79) and was the 14th player taken in the first round of the 1979 NBA Draft
by the Los Angeles Lakers
. He served as a member of the 1980 NBA L.A. Lakers championship team. He was the University of San Diego
head basketball coach until March 2007. On April 25, 2007, he was named as one of three finalists to become the new head coach of UC Riverside
's men's basketball program, but lost out to Jim Wooldridge
. Holland served as an assistant coach at UC Santa Barbara during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons. On April 28, 2010, Holland left UCSB to accept a position as Chief Professional Officer of the Carlsbad, California Boys and Girls Club.
and football
star at Crescenta Valley High School
. Furthermore, he was a four year letterman at UCLA, before entering the Los Angeles Lakers franchise in 1979 and other National Basketball Association
teams, before retiring in 1982 with a knee injury. Next he entered private business and worked as a broadcaster
at Prime Ticket from 1985-1998. He was the last player recruited by coach John Wooden
, becoming part of Pac-10 championships at UCLA from 1976–1979, two under Coach Gene Bartow
and two under Coach Gary Cunningham
.
During that year he averaged in 17.5 points and 4.8 assists and had a .598 goal percentage, the best ever for a Bruin guard. He graduated in 1979 from UCLA with a B.A. degree in Sociology
. Holland also was a rookie guard who scored eight points in a decisive playoff sixth game at Philadelphia. He left his playing career in 1981-82 with the Washington Bullets
and the Milwaukee Bucks
.
He was fired at the completion of the 2006-2007 season to be replaced by Gonzaga University
Assistant Coach, Bill Grier
.
His 1993-1994 team lost three player
s to season-ending injuries prior to the first game. They finished 8-19 overall, and 8th-place in the Big West. He would leave his post suddenly in September 1994, just two months before the start of the 1994-95 season. Several years after his departure from Fullerton, it surfaced that Holland was responsible for several NCAA violations, which resulted in the program being placed on probation for 4 years. http://www.ncaa.org/releases/infractions/1999/1999042901in.htm
, while directing USD to an 18-9 record and second place finish in the West Coast Conference race (9-5). http://usdtoreros.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030105aaa.html Highlights for that team include an important win over Texas in the Torero Tip-off, and the team's upset over then No. 25-ranked Gonzaga 75-59.
In 1999-2000 http://www.kenpom.com/sked.php?team=San%20Diego&y=2000, Holland earned the Toreros 20 wins and 10 WCC victories, the school's most since the 1987 season. The efforts earned Holland the WCC Coach of the Year by his peers for the second season in a row. The Toreros had won seven of their final ten games to finish strong again, a hallmark of Holland coached teams. The season was marked by WCC wins at Gonzaga (82-70) and at home over WCC champion Pepperdine (73-62). The Toreros ended at 10-2 at home, and were 9-7 on the road, including an excellent 5-2 WCC road mark.
CollegeInsider.com named Holland as the 2004-05 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year. Seniors Brandon Gay and Brice Vounang were both named to the NABC District 15 Second Team.
and its first trip to the NCAA tournament in sixteen years. As a 13 seed in the South region, San Diego lost in the first round to Stanford, 77-69.
program. He guided them to 108 victories over the past seven seasons including a personal-best 20 win season in 1999-2000. This past season he directed the Toreros to a 16-13 mark, which finished them off 3rd in the West Coast Conference. It tallied its biggest turnaround in Division I Basketball for the wins with an addition of twelve victories. With the teams 69-61 home win over San Francisco on February 9, Holland made his first career victory to become the programs all-winningest coach. Holland's USD career mark before the Saturday's game in 2005 was 163-149. This included two years at CS Fullerton, which is his overall coaching record is 186-180.
A lack of recent success was cited as the major reason for Holland's firing. Since the Toreros trip to the 2003 NCAA Tournament, Holland's teams achieved little success beyond the occasional victory over cross-town rivals, San Diego State University
Aztecs
, and wins in the West Coast Conference
tournament. Because of this, student and city apathy in the program was growing and USD Athletic Director Ky Snyder believed it was best to start the program with a coach from a successful (although generally hated by San Diego students) program, Gonzaga University
.
Billings, Montana
Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in over...
) is a retired American professional basketball
Basketball
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player. He played for four years at UCLA (1976–79) and was the 14th player taken in the first round of the 1979 NBA Draft
1979 NBA Draft
The 1979 NBA Draft was the 33rd annual draft of the National Basketball Association . The draft was held on June 25, 1979, before the 1979–80 season. In this draft, 22 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players...
by the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
. He served as a member of the 1980 NBA L.A. Lakers championship team. He was the University of San Diego
University of San Diego
The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic university in San Diego, California. USD offers more than sixty bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral programs...
head basketball coach until March 2007. On April 25, 2007, he was named as one of three finalists to become the new head coach of UC Riverside
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...
's men's basketball program, but lost out to Jim Wooldridge
Jim Wooldridge
Jim Wooldridge is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of California, Riverside. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Woolridge played on Putnam City High School's class 4A state basketball championship team in 1972...
. Holland served as an assistant coach at UC Santa Barbara during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons. On April 28, 2010, Holland left UCSB to accept a position as Chief Professional Officer of the Carlsbad, California Boys and Girls Club.
College and professional basketball
Brad Holland was a basketballBasketball
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and football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
star at Crescenta Valley High School
Crescenta Valley High School
Crescenta Valley High School is a secondary school located at 2900 Community Avenue in La Crescenta-Montrose, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The school is a part of the Glendale Unified School District....
. Furthermore, he was a four year letterman at UCLA, before entering the Los Angeles Lakers franchise in 1979 and other National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association
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teams, before retiring in 1982 with a knee injury. Next he entered private business and worked as a broadcaster
Presenter
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at Prime Ticket from 1985-1998. He was the last player recruited by coach John Wooden
John Wooden
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA, an unprecedented feat. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games...
, becoming part of Pac-10 championships at UCLA from 1976–1979, two under Coach Gene Bartow
Gene Bartow
Gene Bartow is a former men's college basketball coach. The Browning, Missouri, native coached 36 years at six universities after coaching two high schools in Missouri for six years.-High school:...
and two under Coach Gary Cunningham
Gary Cunningham
Gary Cunningham is a college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of the University of California, Los Angeles men's basketball team from 1977 to 1979, guiding them to a 50–8 record. He has the highest winning percentage of any coach in UCLA men's basketball history . This puts him ahead...
.
During that year he averaged in 17.5 points and 4.8 assists and had a .598 goal percentage, the best ever for a Bruin guard. He graduated in 1979 from UCLA with a B.A. degree in Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
. Holland also was a rookie guard who scored eight points in a decisive playoff sixth game at Philadelphia. He left his playing career in 1981-82 with the Washington Bullets
Washington Wizards
The Washington Wizards are a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C., previously known as Washington Bullets. They play in the National Basketball Association .-Early years:...
and the Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....
.
Coaching Toreros
Holland compiled a record of 200-176 in thirteen years as San Diego head coach. In only two years did San Diego finish with a record of below .500. Holland led the Toreros to the West Coast Conference championship in 2003, beating Gonzaga in the conference tournament on San Diego's home court.He was fired at the completion of the 2006-2007 season to be replaced by Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...
Assistant Coach, Bill Grier
Bill Grier
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Cal State Fullerton
In his first year at Cal State Fullerton Holland received rave reviews for turning around the CSUF basketball program. During the 1992-93 season, Holland's team finished 15-12, posting the school's first winning record since 1985 and going 10-8 in the Big West Conference.His 1993-1994 team lost three player
Player (game)
A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....
s to season-ending injuries prior to the first game. They finished 8-19 overall, and 8th-place in the Big West. He would leave his post suddenly in September 1994, just two months before the start of the 1994-95 season. Several years after his departure from Fullerton, it surfaced that Holland was responsible for several NCAA violations, which resulted in the program being placed on probation for 4 years. http://www.ncaa.org/releases/infractions/1999/1999042901in.htm
Coaching success
As a coach, he achieved WCC coach of the year for the 1998-1999 seasonSeason (sports)
In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...
, while directing USD to an 18-9 record and second place finish in the West Coast Conference race (9-5). http://usdtoreros.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030105aaa.html Highlights for that team include an important win over Texas in the Torero Tip-off, and the team's upset over then No. 25-ranked Gonzaga 75-59.
In 1999-2000 http://www.kenpom.com/sked.php?team=San%20Diego&y=2000, Holland earned the Toreros 20 wins and 10 WCC victories, the school's most since the 1987 season. The efforts earned Holland the WCC Coach of the Year by his peers for the second season in a row. The Toreros had won seven of their final ten games to finish strong again, a hallmark of Holland coached teams. The season was marked by WCC wins at Gonzaga (82-70) and at home over WCC champion Pepperdine (73-62). The Toreros ended at 10-2 at home, and were 9-7 on the road, including an excellent 5-2 WCC road mark.
CollegeInsider.com named Holland as the 2004-05 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year. Seniors Brandon Gay and Brice Vounang were both named to the NABC District 15 Second Team.
2002-2003
In 2002-2003, Holland managed to guide USD to an impressive 18-12 record, the 2003 West Coast Conference Basketball Championship titleTitle
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and its first trip to the NCAA tournament in sixteen years. As a 13 seed in the South region, San Diego lost in the first round to Stanford, 77-69.
2005-2006
The 05-06 season was Holland's 12th helm of the USD's basketballBasketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
program. He guided them to 108 victories over the past seven seasons including a personal-best 20 win season in 1999-2000. This past season he directed the Toreros to a 16-13 mark, which finished them off 3rd in the West Coast Conference. It tallied its biggest turnaround in Division I Basketball for the wins with an addition of twelve victories. With the teams 69-61 home win over San Francisco on February 9, Holland made his first career victory to become the programs all-winningest coach. Holland's USD career mark before the Saturday's game in 2005 was 163-149. This included two years at CS Fullerton, which is his overall coaching record is 186-180.
Holland's Firing
Coach Holland was subsequently fired at the end of the 2006-2007 season to be replaced by Gonzaga University's Assistant Coach, Bill Grier. This was a fairly controversial move by the Toreros because supporters pointed to the fact that Holland was the winningest coach in Toreros history and joined Jim Brovelli and Hank Egan in leading USD to the NCAA Tournament. He also was very supportive of the school's strict academic requirements and nearly every player he coached went on to graduate.A lack of recent success was cited as the major reason for Holland's firing. Since the Toreros trip to the 2003 NCAA Tournament, Holland's teams achieved little success beyond the occasional victory over cross-town rivals, San Diego State University
San Diego State University
San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University system...
Aztecs
SDSU Aztecs
The San Diego State Aztecs are the collegiate athletics and sports teams for San Diego State University .San Diego State has organized programs for baseball, basketball, football, soccer, golf, gymnastics, rowing , softball, tennis, track, swimming, diving, women's volleyball, and water polo.The...
, and wins in the West Coast Conference
West Coast Conference
The West Coast Conference is an NCAA collegiate athletics conference consisting of nine member schools across the states of California, Oregon, Utah and Washington....
tournament. Because of this, student and city apathy in the program was growing and USD Athletic Director Ky Snyder believed it was best to start the program with a coach from a successful (although generally hated by San Diego students) program, Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...
.