Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 4-2
2016Poinsettia BowlL 21-24
2017Famous Idaho Potato BowlW 37-14
2019Arizona BowlW 38-17
2021Famous Idaho Potato BowlW 52-38
2022Arizona BowlL 27-30
2023Arizona BowlW 16-15
Report card
Below the median on both sides of the ball — 44th percentile offense, 49th percentile defense.
Wyoming, 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
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.
7-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Andy Avalos.
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.
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
Ran more than the situation called for under Vigen and Polasek.
7,618 run and pass snaps at Wyoming, 2014–2023, 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 Wyoming classes of his own have averaged #107 nationally — best #92, worst #124.
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 — 117 of 117 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 7% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2014–2023Counting players who have since left: 6% of the 103 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 Wyoming rosters have averaged 5 lb lighter than the FBS average (2014–2023) — lighter than 85% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Wyoming’s line averaged 7 lb lighter than 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: 52 of 219 signees (24%) across his 2014–2023 tenure, drawn from 22 states in all. Next: CO (30).
27% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 5, OR 3).
- median hometown distance
- 743 mi
- within 100 mi
- 10%
- within 500 mi
- 35%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 6%
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 6 of them himself; 2 arrived under Dave Christensen. 1 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | R3.06 | Chad Muma | Inside Linebacker |  Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| 2020 | R3.01 | Logan Wilson | Inside Linebacker |  Cincinnati Bengals | |
| 2020 | R6.25 | Cassh Maluia | Inside Linebacker |  New England Patriots | |
| 2019 | R6.18 | Marcus Epps | Safety |  Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2018 | R1.07 | Josh Allen | Quarterback |  Buffalo Bills | |
| 2017 | R5.12 | Brian Hill | Running Back |  Atlanta Falcons | |
| 2017 | R6.15 | Chase Roullier | Center |  Washington Redskins | recruited under Dave Christensen |
| 2015 | R7.19 | Mark Nzeocha | Outside Linebacker |  Dallas Cowboys | recruited under Dave Christensen |
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
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
14th-best Wyoming tenure of 22 by the numbers.
Followed Dave Christensen (2009–2013) · succeeded by Jay Sawvel (2024–now).
| Season | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||
| Record | 4-8 | 2-10 | 8-6 | 8-5 | 6-6 | 8-5 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 7-6 | 9-4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | — | W bowl | — | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||||
| OC | Brent Vigen | Brent Vigen | Brent Vigen | Brent Vigen | Brent Vigen | Brent Vigen | Brent Vigen | Tim Polasek | Tim Polasek | Tim Polasek | |
| DC | Steve Stanard | Steve Stanard | Steve Stanard | Scottie Hazelton | Scottie Hazelton | Jake Dickert | Jay Sawvel | Jay Sawvel | Jay Sawvel | Jay Sawvel | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||
| Offense | 23 | 32 | 73 | 8 | 29 | 43 | 24 | 67 | 17 | 55 | |
| Defense | 18 | 10 | 14 | 97 | 88 | 91 | 96 | 43 | 54 | 68 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 36.3 | 27.3 | 34.4 | 39.3 | 26.8 | 24.9 | 28.9 | 34.9 | 36.3 | 39.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 43.7 | 35.2 | 30.0 | 40.4 | 37.5 | 21.6 | 22.2 | 32.9 | 42.0 | 44.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 27.8 | 51.4 | 27.7 | 26.3 | 14.6 | 21.4 | 26.9 | 38.5 | 5.0 | 15.6 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
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.
1st all-time at Wyoming
Was he good?
The data leans positive, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+5.7 pts at Wyoming · #359 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.