Robbie Laing
Robbie Laing (born March 5, 1958)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: UCF Knights (Head coach: Johnny Dawkins)
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Teams coached: Campbell Fighting Camels
Campbell record: 114-185 (.381)
Overall record^: 114-185 (.381)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Atlantic Sun Regular Season Champion: 1 (2010)
Awards:
- Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year: 1 (2010)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2016-present | UCF (asst) |
| 2014-2016 | Florida Atlantic (asst) |
| 2003-2013 | Campbell |
| 2000-2003 | Kansas State (asst) |
| 1999-2000 | Southern Miss (asst) |
| 1996-1999 | Jones County JC |
| 1994-1996 | Auburn (asst) |
| 1993-1994 | Clemson (asst) |
| 1987-1993 | Georgia Southern (asst) |
| 1986-1987 | Western Kentucky (asst) |
| 1984-1986 | Georgia Southern (asst) |
| 1982-1984 | Troy (asst) |
Robbie Laing Facts
- Robert Alan Laing
- Born March 5, 1958
- Hometown: Eufaula, Alabama
- Alma Mater: Troy University (BS, 1982)
- Born in Michigan and raised in Alabama, Laing graduated from Lakeside HS (AL) before heading to Vanderbilt to play football
- After one year, he switched back to basketball and played one year each at Okaloosa-Walton CC (FL) and Seminole CC (FL)
- Transferred back home to Troy in 1980, spending two seasons playing for the Trojans and head coach Wes Bizilia
- Spent one year coaching at Montgomery Academy (AL), then joined the staff of new Troy head coach Don Maestri as an assistant in 1982
- After two years at his alma mater, Laing spent eight of the next nine seasons as an assistant under Frank Kerns at Georgia Southern
- In between stints, he spent one year on Murray Arnold‘s staff at Western Kentucky in which the Toppers went to the NCAA Tournament
- Spent three seasons as an assistant under Cliff Ellis (one at Clemson and two at Auburn) before becoming the head coach at Jones County JC in Ellisville, MS in 1996; led the program there for three seasons
- Returned to D-I in 1999, spending one year on James Green‘s staff at Southern Miss then three years working for Jim Wooldridge at Kansas State
- Hired in 2003 to be the head coach at Campbell, spending the next ten seasons in that role
- Went 114-185 overall with just two winning seasons; highlight was the 2009-10 season in which the Camels won a share of the Atlantic Sun title and Laing was named Atlantic Sun COY
- Laing was let go in 2013 with no postseason appearances as head coach
- A year later, Laing was hired as an assistant at FAU by Michael Curry, who played at Georgia Southern while Laing was coaching there
- Has been at UCF since 2016, working as an assistant coach to Johnny Dawkins
- During his tenure, the Knights have finished above .500 in all but one season and have been to one NCAA Tournament and one NIT
Robbie Laing Coaching Tree
- Brian Burg (Georgia Southern)
- Ryan Ridder (Mercer, Tennessee-Martin, Bethune-Cookman, Daytona State)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only
