As a professional player, his career floundered in various leagues before he began coaching basketball as an assistant for Pitino at the University of Kentucky.
He reached the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship final four as both a player and assistant coach.
When Pitino left for the NBA, he moved on to a head coaching position at the University of Texas-Pan American.
In high school, he served as junior and senior class president as well as governor of the Indiana Boys State Convention.
[3] He was one of two high school players (along with Danny Manning) invited to try out for the United States men's national basketball team at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
[14][15] On January 10, he went 8-for-9 on three-point field goal and set a new career-high with 34 points, helping Providence end a 12-game losing streak against the Villanova Wildcats.
[17] Sixth-seeded Providence made their second ever Final Four at the 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament with Donovan and Brooks for Pitino.
[18] In the Sweet Sixteen round, Brooks scored a game-high 26 points against Southeastern Conference champion, second-seeded Alabama.
[20] The Final Four loss to Syracuse was marred by a bench-clearing brawl that began when Brooks and Sherman Douglas got tangled up.
[28] He then became the head coach for Texas–Pan American Broncs men's basketball for two seasons from 1997–99 before an embezzlement scandal erupted.
[31] An overcrowded Hidalgo County docket caused a trial delay,[32] but in May 2000, he pleaded no contest in a plea bargain in which prosecutors recommended a maximum punishment of 10 years of probation conditional on repayment of stolen funds.
[28] In 2015, he became the head coach of the men's basketball team at Clay High School where he has served as a special education teacher since 2013.