Career
Previously, he was head coach at Oklahoma City University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, and Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers basketball. Harper was named interim head coach at Western Kentucky on January 6, 2012 after Ken McDonald was fired. He was named permanent head coach on February 19, 2012 by then-athletic director Ross Bjork.
He resigned from the position on March 17th, 2016.
Born in Greenville, Kentucky and a native of Bremen, Kentucky, Harper played collegiately at the University of Texas as a freshman and at Kentucky Wesleyan, during his sophomore-senior seasons, where he was named third team NABC All-American as a senior in 1985.