Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
2017Arizona BowlW 26-20
Report card
Offense carries it: 43rd percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 7th.
New Mexico State, 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
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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.
2-5 against his rivals at Kent State. Just 1-5 against J.D. Brookhart.
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.
2-6 against his rivals at New Mexico State. Winless in 5 tries against Blake Anderson.
2-6 against New Mexico, but 5-2-1 against the spread.
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.
4-11 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against J.D. Brookhart.
2-6 against New Mexico, but 5-2-1 against the spread.
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
Passed more than the situation called for under Martin.
6,647 run and pass snaps at New Mexico State, 2013–2021, 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 4 ranked New Mexico State classes of his own have averaged #121 nationally — best #113, worst #130.
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 2021 roster arrived on his watch — 99 of 99 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 0% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2013–2021Counting players who have since left: 0% of the 42 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 New Mexico State rosters have averaged 9 lb heavier than the FBS average (2013–2021 (8 seasons)) — heavier than 95% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, New Mexico State’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: 69 of 195 signees (35%) across his 2013–2021 tenure, drawn from 24 states in all. Next: CA (46).
48% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (NM 13, OK 7, LA 5).
Off this map: 10 signees to the east (FL 5, NC 2, others) and 2 to the north (WA 2).
- median hometown distance
- 606 mi
- within 100 mi
- 9%
- within 500 mi
- 30%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 17%
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 2 of them himself.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | R5.27 | Jason Huntley | Running Back |  Detroit Lions | |
| 2018 | R4.32 | Jaleel Scott | Wide Receiver |  Baltimore Ravens |
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
17th-best New Mexico State tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed DeWayne Walker (2009–2012) · succeeded by Jerry Kill (2022–2023).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||||
| Record | 2-10 | 2-10 | 3-9 | 3-9 | 7-6 | 3-9 | 2-10 | 1-1 | 2-10 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | W bowl | — | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||||
| OC | — | Gregg Brandon | Doug Martin | Doug Martin | Doug Martin | Doug Martin | Doug Martin | Doug Martin | Doug Martin | |
| DC | — | Larry Coyer | Zane Vance | Frank Spaziani | Frank Spaziani | Frank Spaziani | Frank Spaziani | Frank Spaziani | Frank Spaziani | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||||
| Offense | 41 | 25 | 40 | 24 | 44 | 17 | 27 | — | 18 | |
| Defense | 5 | 7 | 9 | 39 | 65 | 40 | 20 | — | 6 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 37.8 | 42.2 | 54.3 | 48.0 | 64.4 | 59.5 | 52.6 | — | 62.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.2 | 40.0 | 44.1 | 46.3 | 57.1 | 47.0 | 47.1 | — | 46.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 28.6 | 48.6 | 43.2 | 40.0 | 29.4 | 35.9 | 43.2 | — | 25.6 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
12th-best Kent State tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Dean Pees (1998–2003) · succeeded by Darrell Hazell (2011–2012).
| Season | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 5-6 | 1-10 | 6-6 | 3-9 | 4-8 | 5-7 | 5-7 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | 41 | 16 | 32 | 45 | 84 | 5 | 18 | |
| Defense | 59 | 94 | 89 | 41 | 25 | 89 | 69 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 58.5 | 59.0 | 36.7 | 40.5 | 36.1 | 50.0 | 49.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 57.9 | 42.1 | 26.1 | 21.1 | 20.4 | 48.2 | 31.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 40.0 | 42.9 | 35.5 | 43.8 | 21.6 | 25.0 | |
4 NFL Draft picks: Usama Young (2007), Jack Williams (2008), Julian Edelman (2009), Jameson Konz (2010)
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 Kent State
Was he good?
Every angle here comes back inconclusive — not enough separation from zero to call it either way.
+4.7 pts at Kent State · #401 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.