John Bland | |
Current Title: | Quarterbacks coach |
Current Team: | Catholic HS (AR) |
Birth Date: | 30 January 1967 |
Birth Place: | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | University of Arkansas (1989) |
Player Years1: | 1985–1988 |
Player Team1: | Arkansas |
Player Positions: | Quarterback |
Coach Years1: | 1989 |
Coach Team1: | Arkansas (SA) |
Coach Years2: | 1990–1991 |
Coach Team2: | Auburn (GA) |
Coach Years3: | 1992–1993 |
Coach Team3: | Columbia Central HS (TN) (RB/DB) |
Coach Years4: | 1994–1996 |
Coach Team4: | Southern Arkansas (QB) |
Coach Years5: | 1997–1999 |
Coach Team5: | Southern Arkansas (OC/QB) |
Coach Years6: | 2000 |
Coach Team6: | Southern Arkansas |
Coach Years7: | 2001–2005 |
Coach Team7: | Rice (QB) |
Coach Years8: | 2006–2013 |
Coach Years9: | 2014–2023 |
Coach Team9: | Mississippi College |
Coach Years10: | 2024–present |
Coach Team10: | Catholic HS (AR) (QB) |
Overall Record: | 101–92 |
Tournament Record: | 5–6 (NAIA playoffs) |
Championships: | 3 MSC East Division (2008–2009, 2013) 3 MSC West Division (2010) |
Awards: | 5× MSC Coach of the Year GSC Coach of the Year (2019) |
John Malcolm Bland (born January 30, 1967) is an American college football coach. He is the quarterbacks coach for the Catholic High School for Boys, a position he has held since 2024. He served as the head football coach at Southern Arkansas University in 2000, the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky from 2005 to 2013 and Mississippi College from 2014 to 2023. Bland played football as a quarterback at the University of Arkansas from 1988 to 1991. He worked as the quarterbacks coach at Rice University from 2001 to 2005.[1]