Harvey Hyde
Hyde during a broadcast of the "USC Gameday Show" for ESPN Radio 710
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 12, 1939 |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1970–1978 | Pasadena CC (assistant) |
| 1979–1981 | Pasadena CC |
| 1982–1985 | UNLV |
| 1990 | Long Beach State (associate HC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 26–19–1 |
| Bowls | 1–0 |
| Tournaments | 1 PCAA (1984) |
Harvey Hyde (born July 12, 1939) is a sports journalist and former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1982 to 1985.
Hyde started his college head coaching career at Pasadena City College. He graduated from the University of Redlands.
The Rebels had unprecedented success in the 1984 season; with star quarterback Randall Cunningham, UNLV went 11-2, won their conference title and defeated Toledo in the California Bowl. It was UNLV's only 11-win season. Hyde was at one point a candidate for the vacant head coaching position at Arizona State.
However, it was later discovered the Rebels had used ineligible players, and the Big West Conference had the Rebels forfeit all the wins from the 1984 season, though the wins were not stricken from NCAA and UNLV records. Although none of the ineligible players were used in the bowl game, the California Bowl was among the games forfeited. The issue erupted at the same time the university president, Robert Maxson, was in the middle of an hostile relationship with the school's famous head basketball coach, Jerry Tarkanian, over similar off-the-court issues with players. The athletic director at the time, Brad Rothermel, noted in later years that Maxson wanted to fire Hyde because of the coach's friendship with Jerry Tarkanian's brother, Myron, stating "When President Maxson discovered (that friendship), he did what he could to level the legs of the football program. We didn't recover from that." During the 1985 season, one of Hyde's players was Marion "Suge" Knight. Among his coaching staff was future Fresno State head coach Pat Hill.
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