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• In his second season with the Tar Heels.
• Promoted to assistant head coach/recruiting coordinator in March.
• Wide receiver Jesse Holley had his best season under Brock's tutelage in 2005 with 47 receptions for 670 yards. Holley earned honorable-mention All-ACC honors and enters the season 14th in career receptions at UNC.
Wide receivers coach Dave Brock enters his second season with the Tar Heels in 2006. He was promoted to assistant head coach/recruiting coordinator following the 2005 season.
Last year, Brock tutored two of the top wideouts in Carolina history in Jarwarski Pollock and Jesse Holley. Pollock became the all-time leading receiver at Carolina with 177 career catches and Holley led the team with 47 receptions. Holley was one of five Tar Heel wide receivers with at least 10 catches.
Brock came to Carolina from Temple, where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for three seasons. Under Brock's direction, Temple's spread offense was one of the most exciting in the Big East.
In 2004, Temple ranked third in the Big East, generating 173.0 yards on the ground per game. The Owls also passed for 2,428 yards, the fourth-most in program history, and averaged 393.7 total yards per game. Owls quarterback Walter Washington was 11th nationally in total offense, 21st in scoring and led the nation in rushing touchdowns by a quarterback.
In 2003, the Owls threw for 2,697 yards, second most in Temple history, and set school records for passing first downs (135) and total plays (859).
A native of Moorestown, N.J., Brock has 16 years of coaching experience, including five as an offensive coordinator, in stints at Temple, Hofstra, Salisbury State and Western Connecticut State. He was Hofstra's wide receivers coach from 1997-2001.
Brock coached seven seasons at Hofstra, where he was named associate head coach in 2002. He began at Hofstra in 1995 and served as the team's offensive coordinator during the 2000 and 2001 seasons.
In 2001, Hofstra posted a 9-3 record and concluded the season ranked No. 7 in Division I-AA behind an offense that was second in the nation in total offense (491 yards/game), fourth in passing offense (301 yards/game) and fifth in scoring offense (37.9 points/game). In 2000, Hofstra finished the year ranked No. 7 with a 9-4 record and also ranked among the nation's top 20 in scoring offense, passing offense and total offense.
During Brock's last five seasons at Hofstra, the team averaged 35.8 points per game and 446.8 yards per contest. In addition to his coaching responsibilities at Hofstra, Brock also served as the football program's Academic Support Liaison from 1995-2001, while also functioning as the team's Financial Aid Liaison from 1997-2001.
Brock played linebacker at Ferrum (Va.) College before earning a bachelor of science degree in political science from Salisbury (Md.) State University.
He began his coaching career as an assistant at Salisbury State in 1988, then served as secondary coach/recruiting coordinator at Western Connecticut State from 1991-93. He returned to Salisbury State in 1994 as the secondary coach and recruiting coordinator before coaching running backs at Hofstra in 1995. Brock served as Hofstra's wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator from 1997-99.
Brock and his wife, Karen, have two sons - Henry (8) and William (4) - and two daughters - Kate (6) and Maggie (3).
