Everett Withers
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2011Independence BowlL 24-41
Coordinator years
Defensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from our coordinator career records; head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from the staff assignments record. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
1-1 against his rivals at North Carolina.
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.
0-2 against his rivals at Texas State. Winless in 3 tries against Matt Viator.
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.
1-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Matt Viator.
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
Called about what the situation called for.
139 run and pass snaps at Temple, 2024–2024, 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.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Texas State class of his own finished #107 nationally.
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 2024 roster arrived on his watch — 109 of 115 players. The other 6 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 16% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
“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 Texas State rosters have averaged 13 lb lighter than the FBS average (2016–2018) — lighter than 97% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Texas 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: 6 of 26 signees (23%) across his 2024–2024 tenure, drawn from 12 states in all. Next: NJ (5).
23% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states.
- median hometown distance
- 150 mi
- within 100 mi
- 41%
- within 500 mi
- 64%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 13%
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.
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
Followed Stan Drayton (2022–2024) · succeeded by K.C. Keeler (2025–now).
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
3rd-best Texas State tenure of 5 by the numbers.
Followed Dennis Franchione (2012–2015) · succeeded by Jake Spavital (2019–2022).
| Season | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 2-10 | 2-10 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Brett Elliott | Zak Kuhr / Parker Fleming | Zak Kuhr | |
| DC | Randall McCray | Randall McCray | Chris Woods | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 2 | 15 | 11 | |
| Defense | 7 | 33 | 63 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 46.2 | 41.0 | 33.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 44.1 | 47.7 | 36.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 38.5 | 26.9 | 23.3 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Butch Davis (2007–2010) · succeeded by Larry Fedora (2012–2018).
2 NFL Draft picks: Quinton Coples (2012), Zach Brown (2012)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-6.5 pts at Texas State · #1084 of 1290 · bottom quarter