Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-3 · won 0 of 1 national title game
2009Rose BowlL 17-26
2010BCS title gameL 19-22
2011Rose BowlW 45-38
2012Fiesta BowlW 35-17
UCLA
2022Sun BowlL 35-37
2023LA BowlW 35-22
Coordinator years
Offensive coordinator across 3 programs, 4 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from our coordinator career records; head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from the staff assignments record. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.
Report card
Offense carries it: 76th percentile offense, below the median defense at 41st.
UCLA, 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
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.
8-0 against his rivals at Oregon. Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
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.
3-3 against his rivals at UCLA. Winless in 3 tries against Mario Cristobal.
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.
11-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Mario Cristobal.
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
Ran more than the situation called for under Frye.
4,945 run and pass snaps at UCLA, 2018–2023, 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.
His recruiting, really
His 6 ranked UCLA classes of his own have averaged #36 nationally — best #19, worst #61.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2023 roster arrived on his watch — 124 of 124 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 24% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2018–2023Counting players who have since left: 26% of the 108 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
“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 UCLA rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2018–2023). In the three seasons before he arrived, UCLA’s line averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average.
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: 80 of 123 signees (65%) across his 2018–2023 tenure, drawn from 20 states in all. Next: AZ (6).
76% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 6, NV 6, OR 2).
- median hometown distance
- 220 mi
- within 100 mi
- 42%
- within 500 mi
- 75%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 20%
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 13 of them himself; 5 arrived under Jim Mora. 1 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R1.15 | Laiatu Latu | Defensive Edge |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2024 | R6.07 | Darius Muasau | Linebacker |  New York Giants | |
| 2023 | R2.21 | Zach Charbonnet | Running Back |  Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2023 | R4.20 | Jon Gaines II | Offensive Guard |  Arizona Cardinals | |
| 2023 | R5.06 | Dorian Thompson-Robinson | Quarterback |  Cleveland Browns | |
| 2023 | R5.10 | Atonio Mafi | Offensive Guard |  New England Patriots | |
| 2022 | R3.16 | Greg Dulcich | Tight End |  Denver Broncos | |
| 2022 | R3.28 | Sean Rhyan | Offensive Guard |  Green Bay Packers |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | R5.17 | Otito Ogbonnia | Defensive Tackle |  Los Angeles Chargers | |
| 2022 | R5.20 | Kyle Philips | Wide Receiver |  Tennessee Titans | |
| 2022 | R6.33 | Quentin Lake | Safety |  Los Angeles Rams | recruited under Jim Mora |
| 2022 | R7.29 | Brittain Brown | Running Back |  Las Vegas Raiders | |
| 2021 | R3.11 | Osa Odighizuwa | Defensive Tackle |  Dallas Cowboys | recruited under Jim Mora |
| 2021 | R6.27 | Demetric Felton | Wide Receiver | Cleveland Browns | recruited under Jim Mora |
| 2020 | R3.27 | Devin Asiasi | Tight End | New England Patriots | |
| 2020 | R4.04 | Darnay Holmes | Cornerback | New York Giants | recruited under Jim Mora |
| 2020 | R4.06 | Joshua Kelley | Running Back | Los Angeles Chargers | |
| 2019 | R7.40 | Caleb Wilson | Tight End | Arizona Cardinals | recruited under Jim Mora |
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.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
12th-best UCLA tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Mora (2012–2017) · succeeded by Deshaun Foster (2024–2025).
| Season | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 3-9 | 4-8 | 3-4 | 8-4 | 9-4 | 8-5 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | Chip Kelly | Justin Frye | Justin Frye | Justin Frye | Chip Kelly | — | |
| DC | Jerry Azzinaro | Jerry Azzinaro | Jerry Azzinaro | Jerry Azzinaro | Bill McGovern | D'Anton Lynn | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 60 | 30 | 76 | 87 | 95 | 44 | |
| Defense | 20 | 3 | 55 | 47 | 18 | 85 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 45.9 | 50.0 | 39.8 | 38.8 | 47.5 | 43.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 36.8 | 55.7 | 30.3 | 32.5 | 36.8 | 43.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 38.6 | 42.9 | 52.4 | 38.9 | 41.5 | 50.0 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
3 player-seasons honored (All-America / national award): Jaelan Phillips (2020), Zach Charbonnet (2022), Laiatu Latu (2023)
2nd-best Oregon tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Mike Bellotti (1995–2008) · succeeded by Mark Helfrich (2013–2016).
| Season | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 10-3 | 12-1 | 12-2 | 12-1 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | Title game L | W bowl | W bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 80 | 83 | 96 | 93 | |
| Defense | 60 | 97 | 84 | 91 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 40.2 | 43.6 | 39.6 | 42.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 28.0 | 35.9 | 39.3 | 37.2 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 41.7 | 41.0 | 42.9 | 48.5 | |
13 NFL Draft picks: T.J. Ward (2010), Ed Dickson (2010), Walter Thurmond (2010), Casey Matthews (2011), LaMichael James (2012), Josh Kaddu (2012), Mark Asper (2012), David Paulson (2012) + 5 more
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.
3rd-most wins by a Pac-12 coach
Was he good?
A mixed record — ahead of expectations by some measures here, behind by others. The honest read is that it depends which lens you use.
+17.5 pts at Oregon · #92 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.