[1] Moreland led the Tigers to a NAIA championship in 1977 and was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Coach of the Year five times.
[2] He received an athletic scholarship to Tougaloo College where he participated in basketball, football and track and field.
[1][4] Moreland began his coaching career at Greer High School in Carthage, Mississippi, during the 1962–63 season.
[5] Moreland was fired as head coach by the Tigers in 2001 but remained as a professor at Texas Southern University.
[6][7] The Tigers renamed the basketball court of Health and Physical Education Arena in Moreland's honor.