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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
1970Tangerine BowlW 40-12Stats
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.
6-4 against his rivals at Toledo. Just 1-5 against Bo Schembechler.
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.
1-5 against his rivals at Iowa. Winless in 3 tries against Bo Schembechler.
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.
7-9 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Joe Paterno.
Building the roster
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Toledo→
Iowa1971Players 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 (1971-1973) 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.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 1 went in the first round.
At least 4 — his 1971, 1972, 1973 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | R7.14 | Dan Dickel | Linebacker |  Baltimore Colts | Estimated |
| 1973 | R7.21 | John Muller | Offensive Tackle |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 1972 | R1.12 | Craig Clemons | Defensive Back |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 1972 | R6.26 | Charles Bolden | Defensive Back |  Dallas Cowboys | 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
10th-best Iowa tenure of 13 by the numbers.
Followed Ray Nagel (1966–1970) · succeeded by Bob Commings (1974–1978).
2nd-best Toledo tenure of 13 by the numbers.
Followed Clive Rush (1962) · succeeded by Jack Murphy (1971–1976).
| Season | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 2-7 | 2-8 | 5-5 | 2-7-1 | 9-1 | 5-4-1 | 11-0 | 12-0 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
6 NFL Draft picks: Paul Elzey (1968), John Schneider (1968), Roland Moss (1969), Curtis Johnson (1970), James Manuel (1970), Tony Harris (1971)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+6.0 pts at Toledo · #347 of 1290 · middle half