Jim Harrick
![]() Harrick in 2008 | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | Charleston, West Virginia,U.S. | July 25, 1938
Alma mater | Morris Harvey College |
Coaching career (HCunless noted) | |
1963–1969 | Morningside HS(assistant) |
1969–1973 | Morningside HS |
1973–1977 | Utah State(assistant) |
1977–1979 | UCLA(assistant) |
1979–1988 | Pepperdine |
1988–1996 | UCLA |
1997–1999 | Rhode Island |
1999–2003 | Georgia |
2006–2007 | Bakersfield Jam |
2018–2021 | Cal State Northridge(assistant) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 470–235 (college) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
NCAA Division I(1995) 5×WCACRegular Season (1981–1983, 1985, 1986) 3×Pac-10Regular Season (1992, 1995, 1996) Atlantic 10 tournament(1999) | |
Awards | |
Naismith College Coach of the Year(1995) Pac-10 Coach of the Year(1995) 4× WCAC Coach of the Year (1982, 1983, 1985, 1986) | |
James Richard Harrick(born July 25, 1938) is an American formerbasketballcoach. He was thehead coachatUCLA,Pepperdine University,theUniversity of Rhode Islandand theUniversity of Georgiaover a combined total of 23 seasons. During the1994–1995 season,he led UCLA to a 31–1 record and the school'seleventh national championship,its first since the1974–75 season.
Biography
[edit]Born inCharleston, West Virginia,Harrick graduated in 1960 from Morris Harvey College, now known as theUniversity of Charleston.
College coaching career
[edit]Harrick's coaching career began atMorningside High SchoolinInglewood, Californiawhere he served as an assistant coach from 1964 to 1969 and as head coach from 1970 to 1973. He was then hired as an assistant coach atUtah State Universityfrom 1974 to 1977. Harrick then spent two seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA from 1978 to 1979. His first collegiate head coaching job was atPepperdine Universityin 1979, where he led the school to fourNCAA tournamentappearances and was a conference coach of the year four times.
UCLA
[edit]In 1988, he returned toUCLAto assume head coaching duties after the firing ofWalt Hazzard.During the recruiting period before his first season, he recruitedDon MacLean,the most significant recruit to commit to Westwood in several years. McLean's arrival helped start a revival of the basketball program. By 1992, theBruinswere back in the Elite Eight, officially the first time they had advanced that far in 13 years. The 1979-80 team went all the way to the national championship game, but had that appearance vacated due to ineligible players.[1]This was officially the second time they had advanced that far sinceJohn Woodenleft the school.
During the1994–95 season,he led UCLA to a 31–2 record (a loss to California was subsequently forfeited to the Bruins) and the school'seleventh national championship,its first since the1974–75 season.The 31 wins would stand as a school record until the 2005–06 season. A year later, Harrick's Bruins were upset in the first round byPrinceton.
As it turned out, this would be the last game Harrick would coach in Westwood. Shortly before the start of the1996–97 season,he was accused of falsifying receipts at a student-athlete recruiting dinner when two current players,Cameron DollarandCharles O'Bannon,joined the table. Since Harrick paid for the entire meal, it amounted to an improper extra benefit for Dollar and O'Bannon. To cover up their presence, Harrick included the names of his wife and the wife of newly hired assistantMichael Holtonon the expense report. When the school investigated, Harrick told Holton to tell athletic director Peter Dalis that Holton's wife was at the meal. However, a day later, Holton confessed that was not true. On November 6, 1996, Dalis and school chancellorChuck Younggave Harrick an ultimatum: resign by the next morning or be fired. Harrick opted to take the firing. Although picking up the tab for Dollar and O'Bannon was a secondary violation at best, Young and Dalis felt Harrick's attempted cover-up was unforgivable.[2]However, Harrick claims that the NCAA has cleared him of wrongdoing.[3]
He left UCLA as the school's second-winningest coach, behind only Wooden. However, he is now third behind Wooden andBen Howland.
Rhode Island
[edit]After a one-year hiatus, Harrick returned to coaching by accepting the head coach position atRhode Island.He coached theRamsfor two seasons (from 1997 to 1999), where in both years they qualified for the NCAA Tournament. During the1998 tournament,the Rams upsetKansasin the second round and reached the Midwest Regional finals but were defeated byStanford79–77. In his second season, he managed to recruitLamar Odomand led the Rams to their firstAtlantic 10 Conferencetournament title.
Georgia
[edit]After the season, he left URI to become the head coach at theUniversity of Georgia.He served there for four seasons (1999–2000 through 2002–03), leading theBulldogsto the NCAA tournament twice following a losing record.
His tenure at Georgia ended in controversy in the spring of 2003. His son, Jim Harrick Jr., a Georgia assistant, got into trouble for paying $300 in expenses for one of his players, Tony Cole. He also gave an "A" to Cole,Rashad Wrightand Chris Daniels for a basketball strategy class even though they never attended it. After the story broke, Georgia pulled out of the 2003 SEC Tournament and withdrew from postseason consideration. The school suspended Harrick Jr. on February 28, 2003 and fired him five days later. Harrick Sr. was suspended on March 10 and resigned on March 27 after being told his contract would not be renewed.
An NCAA investigation confirmed the violations, also finding that six players did not pay for over $1,500 of long-distance telephone calls in December 2001. The telephone charges in question were due to hotel error and ultimately never charged to the program. Since they were not valid charges, Georgia did not self-report the violations until an internal investigation into the program in July 2003. In 2004 the NCAA placed Georgia on four years' probation for the violations. It also forced the Bulldogs to vacate half of their wins from 2001–02 and all their wins from 2002–03—30 games in all. Harrick Jr. was given a seven-yearshow-cause penaltyorder for his role in the academic fraud, as well as telling two of the players involved to lie to the NCAA. The 'show-cause' effectively blackballed him from the college ranks until 2011 at the earliest.
Later career
[edit]After Georgia, Harrick worked as a scout for the NBA 'sDenver Nuggetsand helped develop basketball in China.[4]
On June 13, 2006, Harrick accepted the head coaching position for theBakersfield Jam,anNBA Development Leagueteam.[3]Harrick resigned for personal reasons in December 2007, after the Jam struggled to a 2–14 record.[5]
Harrick later became a college basketball analyst forPrime Ticket,the Southern California affiliate ofFox Sports Net.From 2018 until 2021, Harrick was an assistant men's basketball coach atCalifornia State University, Northridge.[6]
Head coaching record
[edit]College
[edit]Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Pepperdine Waves(West Coast Athletic Conference)(1979–1988) | |||||||||
1979–80 | Pepperdine | 17–11 | 9–7 | T–5th | NIT First Round | ||||
1980–81 | Pepperdine | 16–12 | 11–3 | T–1st | |||||
1981–82 | Pepperdine | 22–7 | 14–0 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
1982–83 | Pepperdine | 20–9 | 10–2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
1983–84 | Pepperdine | 15–13 | 6–6 | T–4th | |||||
1984–85 | Pepperdine | 23–9 | 11–1 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
1985–86 | Pepperdine | 25–5 | 13–1 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
1986–87 | Pepperdine | 12–18 | 5–9 | 7th | |||||
1987–88 | Pepperdine | 17–13 | 8–6 | 4th | NIT First Round | ||||
Pepperdine: | 167–97 | 87–35 | |||||||
UCLA Bruins(Pacific-10 Conference)(1988–1996) | |||||||||
1988–89 | UCLA | 21–10 | 13–5 | 3rd | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
1989–90 | UCLA | 22–11 | 11–7 | 4th | NCAA Division I Sweet 16 | ||||
1990–91 | UCLA | 23–9 | 11–7 | 2nd | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
1991–92 | UCLA | 28–5 | 16–2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Elite Eight | ||||
1992–93 | UCLA | 22–11 | 11–7 | 3rd | NCAA Division I Round of 32 | ||||
1993–94 | UCLA | 21–7 | 13–5 | 2nd | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
1994–95 | UCLA | 31–2 | 16–2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Champion | ||||
1995–96 | UCLA | 23–8 | 16–2 | 1st | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
UCLA: | 192–62 | 108–36 | |||||||
Rhode Island Rams(Atlantic 10 Conference)(1997–1999) | |||||||||
1997–98 | Rhode Island | 25–9 | 12–4 | 2nd(East) | NCAA Division I Elite Eight | ||||
1998–99 | Rhode Island | 20–13 | 10–6 | 2nd(East) | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
Rhode Island: | 45–22 | 22–10 | |||||||
Georgia Bulldogs(Southeastern Conference)(1999–2003) | |||||||||
1999–00 | Georgia | 10–20 | 3–13 | 6th(East) | |||||
2000–01 | Georgia | 16–15 | 9–7 | 3rd(East) | NCAA Division I Round of 64 | ||||
2001–02 | Georgia | 22–10* | 10–6* | T–1st(East)* | NCAA Division I Round of 32* | ||||
2002–03 | Georgia | 19–8* | 11–5* | 3rd(East) | |||||
Georgia: | 67–53** | 33–31** | |||||||
Total: | 470–235 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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*Georgia vacated 11 wins in 2001–02 and all of its wins in 2002–03, as well as its share of the 2002 SEC East title and its2002 NCAA tournament appearance,due to an academic fraud scandal. Official record for 2001–02 is 11–10 (0–6 SEC), official record for 2002–03 is 0–8 (0–5 SEC).
**Record at Georgia is 37–53 (12–31 SEC) without vacated games.
Awards
[edit]- 1995: National Coach of the Year (Naismith, NABC)
- 1995:Pac-10 Coach of the Year
- 1990: Morris Harvey College–University of CharlestonGolden Eagle Sports Hall of Fame
- 1982–1983, 1985–1986: West Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (Pepperdine)
Personal life
[edit]On November 20, 2009 Harrick's wife of 49 years, Sally Lee, died aged 70 from complications ofscleroderma.[7][8]His son Jim Jr. died in April 2023 at age 58 after battling abrain tumorfor 2½ years.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Upi (1981-12-09)."U.c.l.a. on Probation in Basketball".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2019-10-21.
- ^Wolff, Alexander (November 18, 1996)."Out To Dinner, Out Of A Job".Sports Illustrated.Archived fromthe originalon January 16, 2010.
- ^ab"Harrick to coach Bakersfield in NBA D-league".ESPN.June 14, 2006.RetrievedJanuary 13,2024.
- ^Jim Harrick to step down as coach of the Bakersfield Jam,[dead link]Associated Press, December 29, 2007.
- ^Jim Harrick to step down as coach of the Bakersfield JamArchived2009-02-07 at theWayback Machine,NBA, December 28, 2007.
- ^Plaschke, Bill (January 11, 2020)."Jim Harrick's ultimate glory still gets recognized, just not at UCLA".Los Angeles Times.RetrievedDecember 28,2020.
- ^"Sally Harrick, wife of former UCLA coach, dies".FOX Sports.2009-11-21. Archived fromthe originalon 2019-10-21.Retrieved2019-10-21.
- ^ab"Jim Harrick Jr., former assistant basketball coach, dies at 58".ESPN.Associated Press. April 12, 2023.RetrievedJune 23,2023.
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