Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-2
2002Continental Tire BowlW 48-22
2003Continental Tire BowlW 23-16
2004MPC Computers BowlL 34-37
2005Music City BowlW 34-31
2007Gator BowlL 28-31
Report card
Below the median offense — 49th percentile.
Virginia, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
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.
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
Just 1-4 against George Welsh.
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.
1-8 against his rivals at Virginia. Just 1-8 against Frank Beamer.
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.
1-8 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against George Welsh.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for.
3,079 run and pass snaps at Virginia, 2004–2009, 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. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.
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
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (2001-2009) 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.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 42 of 80 signees (52%) across his 2001–2009 tenure, drawn from 15 states in all. Next: MD (6).
69% of his signees come from VA and its 6 border states (MD 6, NC 5, DC 1, KY 1).
Off this map: 3 signees to the west (CA 2, TX) and 3 to the south (FL 2, GA).
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. None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 5 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | R2.02 | Chris Cook | Cornerback |  Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| 2009 | R1.08 | Eugene Monroe | Offensive Tackle |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2009 | R2.13 | Clint Sintim | Outside Linebacker |  New York Giants | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.12 | Cedric Peerman | Running Back |  Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.35 | John Phillips | Tight End |  Dallas Cowboys | Estimated |
| 2008 | R1.02 | Chris Long | Defensive End |  St. Louis Rams | Estimated |
| 2008 | R1.15 | Branden Albert | Offensive Guard |  Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2008 | R6.30 | Tom Santi | Tight End |  Indianapolis Colts | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R7.34 | Jason Snelling | Running Back |  Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2007 | R7.35 | Marcus Hamilton | Defensive Back |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2006 | R1.04 | D'Brickashaw Ferguson | Offensive Tackle |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2006 | R5.10 | Brad Butler | Offensive Tackle |  Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2006 | R5.11 | Marques Hagans | Wide Receiver | St. Louis Rams | Estimated |
| 2006 | R6.01 | Wali Lundy | Running Back |  Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2006 | R6.19 | Kurt Smith | Place Kicker |  San Diego Chargers | Estimated |
| 2005 | R1.30 | Heath Miller | Tight End |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2005 | R3.31 | Darryl Blackstock | Linebacker |  Arizona Cardinals | Estimated |
| 2005 | R4.10 | Elton Brown | Offensive Guard | Arizona Cardinals | Estimated |
| 2005 | R4.26 | Alvin Pearman | Running Back | Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2005 | R4.31 | Chris Canty | Defensive End | Dallas Cowboys | Estimated |
| 2005 | R6.29 | Andrew Hoffman | Defensive End |  Cleveland Browns | Estimated |
| 2005 | R7.34 | Patrick Estes | Tight End |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2004 | R3.27 | Matt Schaub | Quarterback | Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2003 | R3.30 | Angelo Crowell | Linebacker | Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2003 | R3.31 | Billy McMullen | Wide Receiver |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2002 | R4.20 | Chris Luzar | Tight End | Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.20 | Monsanto Pope | Defensive Tackle |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.26 | Antwoine Womack | Running Back |  New England Patriots | 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
2nd-best Virginia tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed George Welsh (1982–2000) · succeeded by Mike London (2010–2015).
| Season | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||||
| Record | 5-7 | 9-5 | 8-5 | 8-4 | 7-5 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 5-7 | 3-9 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | — | L bowl | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | 96 | 77 | 11 | 36 | 29 | 14 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | 22 | 5 | 77 | 63 | 74 | 50 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | 30.7 | 46.4 | 45.7 | 43.3 | 46.2 | 40.1 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | 24.6 | 43.4 | 34.4 | 40.2 | 43.5 | 45.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | 24.0 | 22.5 | 12.9 | 14.7 | 34.2 | 18.9 | |
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Chris Long (2007)
11th-best Wake Forest tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed John Mackovic (1978–1980) · succeeded by Bill Dooley (1987–1992).
2 NFL Draft picks: Kenny Duckett (1982), Paul Kiser (1987)
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
2nd all-time at Virginia
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+2.6 pts at Virginia · #518 of 1290 · middle half