RIP Terry Holland
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Think it was the 84 UVA team that went on NCAA run that was the first college bball team I really remember. And that was right after Sampson left. Underdog run. Othell Wilson, Rick Carlisle, Ricky Stokes, Jim Miller, Tom Sheehey, Polynice. Liked those guys. It didn't stick I wasn't a UVA fan growing up, more ambivalent and probably more dislike during Jeff Jones & Gillen eras. But the 84 squad is still good memory for whatever reason. Did go to UVA bball camp once under Holland in late 80s.
My memories of Terry go back to his bringing good Davidson teams to the Richmond Arena.
yeah -- remember the '84 team as well for sure - I grew up in a city 100 SW of Atlanta, and before we splurged for ESPN cable during basketball season around 1986, recall a few nights with my Dad driving out into the country on a clear dark night and pickup UVA games on the AM radio and remember a few UNC/UVA games especially.
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Teel: Players and coaches mourn the passing of Virginia's Terry Holland, an icon and mentor
When Jimmy Miller learned of Terry Holland’s passing Sunday, his mind immediately drifted to a photograph from nearly 40 years ago. Captured on film by Holland’s wife, Ann, the moment
John Feinstein article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/02/27/terry-holland-dies-basketball-coach/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/02/27/terry-holland-dies-basketball-coach/
Had forgotten he retired from coaching when he was 48. Crazy.Teel: Players and coaches mourn the passing of Virginia's Terry Holland, an icon and mentor
When Jimmy Miller learned of Terry Holland’s passing Sunday, his mind immediately drifted to a photograph from nearly 40 years ago. Captured on film by Holland’s wife, Ann, the momentrichmond.com
First remember him as, I believe, the point guard for Lefty Driesell on those squads featuring Fred Hetzel, Dick Snyder, Don Davidson and others that Lefty and his team built into the "Gonzaga of the Southern Conference"...
if you didn't follow college basketball in Virginia during the 60s you cannot imagine how irrelevant UVA was in the ACC...Holland's job at UVA was pretty incredible and unexpected at the time...
RIP Coach Holland
met him when I was a kid at Jack Curran's basketball camp (at Fordham incidentally) - am pretty sure he was there to try to get in good with Curran's then-PG, Kenny Anderson. He gave me a UVa poster for answering a question correctly during his talk to the camp.
Before I was a junior in HS I was a huge UVA fan, and Terry Holland was my college hoops coach. If it weren’t for him and Ralph I probably wouldn’t be a college hoops fan. RIP
Agree 100% about Holland and Ralph. Larry Bird and Ralph made me a huge college basketball fan for life. Holland had some great teams that should have won it all and would have easily done so today. The 1980’s were the pinnacle of college basketball when almost all of the great players stayed in school for 4 years. It’s a shame todays young fans don’t get to see that level of play in the college game today.
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