Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 2-3
2002Humanitarian BowlW 34-16
2003Fort Worth BowlW 34-31
2004Liberty BowlL 40-44
2005MPC Computers BowlL 21-27
Colorado
2007Independence BowlL 24-30
Report card
Below the median offense — 41st percentile.
Colorado, 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.
9-1 against his rivals at Boise State. Just 1-2 against Mike Riley.
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.
4-6 against his rivals at Colorado. Winless in 5 tries against Gary Pinkel.
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.
13-7 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Gary Pinkel.
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.
2,977 run and pass snaps at Colorado, 2006–2010, 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
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
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Colorado2006Players 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 2010 roster arrived on his watch — 104 of 104 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2006-2010) 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: 28 of 86 signees (33%) across his 2006–2010 tenure, drawn from 22 states in all. Next: CO (18).
38% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 4, NV 1).
1 signee without a plottable hometown location not shown.
- median hometown distance
- 794 mi
- within 100 mi
- 32%
- within 500 mi
- 36%
- 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. None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 2 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | R1.17 | Nate Solder | Offensive Tackle |  New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2011 | R1.27 | Jimmy Smith | Cornerback |  Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| 2011 | R4.21 | Jalil Brown | Cornerback |  Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2011 | R7.24 | Scotty McKnight | Wide Receiver |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2009 | R7.09 | Brad Jones | Outside Linebacker |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2008 | R2.14 | Jordon Dizon | Outside Linebacker |  Detroit Lions | Estimated |
| 2008 | R2.31 | Terrence Wheatley | Cornerback | New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2007 | R6.19 | Mason Crosby | Place Kicker | Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R7.28 | Abraham Wright | Defensive End |  Miami Dolphins | 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.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
9th-best Colorado tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Gary Barnett (1999–2005) · succeeded by Jon Embree (2011–2012).
| Season | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 2-10 | 6-7 | 5-7 | 3-9 | 3-6 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 57 | 59 | 25 | 19 | 51 | |
| Defense | 39 | 50 | 31 | 79 | 13 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 35.2 | 40.5 | 45.7 | 44.9 | 37.7 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 46.7 | 48.2 | 50.6 | 39.8 | 36.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 27.8 | 39.0 | 35.0 | 32.4 | 20.0 | |
5th-best Boise State tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Dirk Koetter (1998–2000) · succeeded by Chris Petersen (2006–2013).
| Season | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 8-4 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 11-1 | 9-4 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | 94 | 41 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | 93 | 95 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | 34.7 | 42.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | 29.1 | 44.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | 30.8 | 53.8 | |
4 NFL Draft picks: Matt Hill (2002), Jeb Putzier (2002), Brock Forsey (2003), Daryn Colledge (2006)
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 all-time at Boise State
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+14.6 pts at Boise State · #124 of 1290 · top quarter