Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 4-2
1999Humanitarian BowlW 34-31
2000Humanitarian BowlW 38-23
Arizona State
2002Holiday BowlL 27-34
2004Sun BowlW 27-23
2005Insight BowlW 45-40
2006Hawaii BowlL 24-41
Report card
Above the median offense — 73rd percentile.
Arizona 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.
2-1 against his rivals at Boise State. Just 1-2 against Darrell Dickey.
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 Arizona State. Winless in 6 tries against Pete Carroll.
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.
6-3 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Mike Price.
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.
1,563 run and pass snaps at Arizona State, 2004–2006, 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. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.
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
Boise State→
Arizona State2001Players 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 2006 roster arrived on his watch — 33 of 33 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2001-2006) 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: 36 of 60 signees (60%) across his 2001–2006 tenure, drawn from 7 states in all. Next: AZ (11).
82% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 11, NV 2).
- median hometown distance
- 426 mi
- within 100 mi
- 29%
- within 500 mi
- 57%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 0%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R2.06 | Zach Miller | Tight End |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2007 | R7.42 | Andrew Carnahan | Offensive Tackle |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2006 | R3.18 | Derek Hagan | Wide Receiver |  Miami Dolphins | Estimated |
| 2006 | R4.23 | Jamar Williams | Linebacker |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2005 | R3.05 | Andrew Walter | Quarterback | Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2005 | R5.15 | Drew Hodgdon | Center |  Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2005 | R7.18 | Jimmy Verdon | Defensive End |  New Orleans Saints | Estimated |
| 2004 | R5.24 | Mike Karney | Running Back | New Orleans Saints | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | R5.26 | Jason Shivers | Defensive Back |  St. Louis Rams | Estimated |
| 2003 | R1.10 | Terrell Suggs | Linebacker |  Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| 2003 | R4.09 | Shaun McDonald | Wide Receiver | St. Louis Rams | Estimated |
| 2003 | R4.38 | Solomon Bates | Linebacker |  Seattle Seahawks | Estimated |
| 2002 | R1.10 | Levi Jones | Offensive Tackle |  Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
| 2002 | R4.26 | Scott Peters | Center |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2002 | R4.32 | Travis Scott | Offensive Guard | St. Louis Rams | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.37 | Kyle Kosier | Offensive Guard |  San Francisco 49ers | 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
8th-best Arizona State tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Bruce Snyder (1992–2000) · succeeded by Dennis Erickson (2007–2011).
| Season | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 4-7 | 8-6 | 5-7 | 9-3 | 7-5 | 7-6 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | 28 | 97 | 72 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | 66 | 6 | 53 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | 47.9 | 49.6 | 40.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | 46.2 | 48.8 | 34.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | 33.3 | 36.4 | 33.3 | |
6th-best Boise State tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Houston Nutt (1997) · succeeded by Dan Hawkins (2001–2005).
| Season | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 6-5 | 10-3 | 10-2 | |
| Postseason | — | 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 | — | — | — | |
2 NFL Draft picks: Dave Stachelski (2000), Shaunard Harts (2001)
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.
2nd-most wins by a Big West coach
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+7.9 pts at Boise State · #277 of 1290 · top quarter