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Basketball elder statesman Terry Holland played point guard for Lefty Driesell at Davidson. He later became Virginia's winningest coach. He now works as athletics Director at East Carolina.

Oh yeah, he's also a nerd.

Holland, who turned 70 on April 2, is a nerd because he objects to so-called one-and-done players in college basketball. With five Kentucky underclassmen entering the 2012 NBA Draft last week, Coach John Calipari again defended the growing practice of players using college as a temporary stop en route to the NBA.

As a guest last week on the aptly-named Fox Sports Radio show Loose Cannons, Calipari said, "You had these players at a young age playing for each other and not themselves, sharing the ball, sacrificing their game for the good of the team, and every young player on the planet got to see it, including NBA players that thought that is neat. We all learned.

"Yet some nerd has got to say, 'Well it's bad for college sports.' Why? Because they're talented? Was it bad when Tiger Woods left Stanford? (Sarcastically) He ruined that university by leaving early! I mean what are you talking about?"

Calipari was labeling critics of one-and-done players nerds, not Holland particularly.

In an exchange of email messages, Holland explained his view.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/21/21598...rylink=cpy