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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-4
2009EagleBank BowlL 21-30
Miami
2013Russell Athletic BowlL 9-36
2014Independence BowlL 21-24
2015Sun BowlL 14-20
Report card
Above the median on both sides of the ball — 66th percentile offense, 68th percentile defense.
Miami, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
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The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
1-1 against his rivals at Temple. Winless in 5 tries against Joe Paterno.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
3-7 against his rivals at Miami. Winless in 5 tries against Jimbo Fisher.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
4-8 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Jimbo Fisher.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Passed more than the situation called for under Coley.
3,175 run and pass snaps at Miami, 2011–2015, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
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Miami2011Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2015 roster arrived on his watch — 122 of 122 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2011-2015) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Miami rosters have averaged 9 lb heavier than the FBS average (2011–2015) — heavier than 94% of FBS coaching runs since 2010.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 56 of 97 signees (58%) across his 2011–2015 tenure, drawn from 16 states in all. Next: CA (9).
68% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (GA 8, AL 2).
Off this map: 10 signees to the west (CA 9, NV).
- median hometown distance
- 194 mi
- within 100 mi
- 40%
- within 500 mi
- 59%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 24%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 9 of them himself; 7 arrived under Randy Shannon. 5 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record). 3 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | R6.12 | Al-Quadin Muhammad | Defensive End |  New Orleans Saints | |
| 2016 | R1.25 | Artie Burns | Cornerback |  Pittsburgh Steelers | |
| 2016 | R4.26 | Deon Bush | Safety |  Chicago Bears | |
| 2015 | R1.09 | Ereck Flowers | Offensive Tackle |  New York Giants | |
| 2015 | R1.29 | Phillip Dorsett | Wide Receiver |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2015 | R2.16 | Denzel Perryman | Inside Linebacker |  San Diego Chargers | |
| 2015 | R3.04 | Clive Walford | Tight End |  Oakland Raiders | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2015 | R3.13 | Duke Johnson | Running Back |  Cleveland Browns |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | R4.29 | Jon Feliciano | Offensive Guard | Oakland Raiders | |
| 2015 | R6.36 | Anthony Chickillo | Defensive End | Pittsburgh Steelers | |
| 2014 | R3.29 | Brandon Linder | Offensive Guard |  Jacksonville Jaguars | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2014 | R6.15 | Pat O'Donnell | Punter | Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2014 | R7.22 | Seantrel Henderson | Offensive Tackle |  Buffalo Bills | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2013 | R5.16 | Brandon McGee | Cornerback |  St. Louis Rams | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2013 | R6.21 | Mike James | Running Back |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2012 | R3.09 | Olivier Vernon | Defensive End |  Miami Dolphins | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2012 | R3.23 | Sean Spence | Outside Linebacker | Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2012 | R4.02 | Lamar Miller | Running Back | Miami Dolphins | recruited under Randy Shannon |
| 2012 | R4.05 | Travis Benjamin | Wide Receiver |  Cleveland Browns | Estimated |
| 2012 | R6.28 | Tommy Streeter | Wide Receiver |  Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| 2012 | R6.30 | Brandon Washington | Offensive Guard |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
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Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
7th-best Miami tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Randy Shannon (2007–2010) · succeeded by Mark Richt (2016–2018).
| Season | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 6-6 | 7-5 | 9-4 | 6-7 | 4-3 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Coordinators | ||||||
| OC | — | — | — | James Coley | James Coley | |
| DC | — | — | — | Mark D'Onofrio | Mark D'Onofrio | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 79 | 51 | 60 | 75 | 52 | |
| Defense | 52 | 19 | 8 | 68 | 41 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 43.7 | 49.7 | 39.0 | 44.1 | 44.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 33.0 | 50.4 | 41.2 | 50.0 | 45.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 39.4 | 19.6 | 22.2 | 36.6 | 21.3 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
14th-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Bobby Wallace (1998–2005) · succeeded by Steve Addazio (2011–2012).
| Season | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 1-11 | 4-8 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 8-4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | L bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 0 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 30 | |
| Defense | 26 | 37 | 46 | 59 | 80 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 31.2 | 38.2 | 36.4 | 23.0 | 33.1 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.6 | 41.1 | 36.4 | 18.6 | 34.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 42.1 | 42.3 | 28.6 | 21.9 | 21.2 | |
3 NFL Draft picks: Terrance Knighton (2009), Muhammad Wilkerson (2011), Jaiquawn Jarrett (2011)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+2.0 pts at Temple · #549 of 1290 · middle half