Bill Clark
Followed Garrick McGee. Bill Clark moved UAB from Regional Program V to Regional Program II in 6 seasons.
Career arc
His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.
Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
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.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
3rd-best UAB tenure of 7 by the numbers.
Outperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Followed Garrick McGee (2012–2013) · succeeded by Bryant Vincent (2022–2022).
| Season | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 6–6 | — | — | 8–5 | 11–3 | 9–5 | 6–3 | 9–4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | W bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | #113 | #138 | #71 | #108 | #103 | #74 | #103 | #115 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||||
| Pass rate | 34.9 | — | — | 39.2 | 35.3 | 37.7 | 40.0 | 35.8 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||
| OC | Bryant Vincent | — | — | Les Koenning | Bryant Vincent | Bryant Vincent | Bryant Vincent | Bryant Vincent | |
| DC | Duwan Walker | — | — | David Reeves | David Reeves | David Reeves | David Reeves | David Reeves | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||
| Offense | 35 | — | — | 46 | 75 | 17 | 59 | 90 | |
| Defense | 61 | — | — | 47 | 93 | 93 | 86 | 79 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 29.8 | — | — | 37.7 | 28.4 | 31.5 | 29.5 | 34.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 26.1 | — | — | 30.4 | 22.1 | 27.4 | 36.2 | 30.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 52.8 | — | — | 29.0 | 25.0 | 35.9 | 34.6 | 32.1 | |
Barely touches the portal — recruits and develops his own.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
4 NFL Draft picks: J.J. Nelson (2015), Kennard Backman (2015), Jordan Smith (2021), Alex Wright (2022)