Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 5-3
1989Copper BowlW 17-10
1990Aloha BowlL 0-28
BAY1992John Hancock BowlL 15-20
1993Fiesta BowlW 29-0
1994Freedom BowlL 13-16
1997Insight.com BowlW 20-14
1998Holiday BowlW 23-20
San José State
2006New Mexico BowlW 20-12
Report card
Below the median offense — 31st percentile.
San José State, 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.
4-2 against his rivals at Hawai'i. Winless in 8 tries against LaVell Edwards.
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.
8-5 against his rivals at Arizona. Just 1-5 against Mike Bellotti.
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 Chris Ault.
Signature games
These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.
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.
12-7 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against Mike Bellotti.
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.
1,518 run and pass snaps at San José State, 2005–2009, 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.
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
Hawai'i→
Arizona1987Players 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
This coach's entire tenure (2005-2009) 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: 56 of 57 signees (98%) across his 2005–2009 tenure, drawn from 2 states in all. Next: HI (1).
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.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | R3.04 | Jarron Gilbert | Defensive Tackle |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2009 | R3.26 | Christopher Owens | Cornerback |  Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.18 | Coye Francies | Cornerback |  Cleveland Browns | Estimated |
| 2008 | R4.14 | Dwight Lowery | Cornerback |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2007 | R3.14 | James Jones | Wide Receiver |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2007 | R7.19 | John Broussard | Wide Receiver |  Jacksonville Jaguars | 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
16th-best San José State tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Fitz Hill (2001–2004) · succeeded by Mike MacIntyre (2010–2012).
| Season | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 3-8 | 9-4 | 5-7 | 6-6 | 2-10 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 8 | 19 | 15 | 1 | 17 | |
| Defense | 53 | 41 | 55 | 75 | 10 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 55.8 | 34.4 | 48.1 | 42.7 | 41.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 25.0 | 23.3 | 33.3 | 42.6 | 46.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 33.3 | 25.5 | 30.8 | |
1st-best Arizona tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Larry Smith (1980–1986) · succeeded by John Mackovic (2001–2003).
| Season | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||||
| Record | 4-4-3 | 7-4 | 8-4 | 7-5 | 4-7 | 6-5-1 | 10-2 | 8-4 | 6-5 | 5-6 | 7-5 | 12-1 | 6-6 | 5-6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | W bowl | L bowl | — | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | — | W bowl | W bowl | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
39 NFL Draft picks: Joe Tofflemire (1989), Derek Hill (1989), Brad Henke (1989), Rob Woods (1989), Chris Singleton (1990), Anthony Smith (1990), Glenn Parker (1990), John Nies (1990) + 31 more
4th-best Hawai'i tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed Larry Price (1974–1976) · succeeded by Bob Wagner (1987–1995).
11 NFL Draft picks: Gary Allen (1982), David Toloumu (1982), Anthony Edgar (1983), Bernard Carvalho (1984), Raphel Cherry (1985), Rich Miano (1985), Mike Akiu (1985), Walter Murray (1986) + 3 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.
1st all-time at Arizona
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+8.6 pts at Hawai'i · #251 of 1290 · top quarter