Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2001Liberty BowlL 10-28
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.
Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
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.
3-3 against his rivals at BYU. Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
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.
3-3 against his rivals. Nobody he faced three or more times has a winning record against him.
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.
179 run and pass snaps at BYU, 2004–2004, 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.
Building the roster
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2004 roster arrived on his watch — 29 of 29 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2001-2004) 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: 16 of 51 signees (31%) across his 2002–2004 classes on record (his tenure ran 2001–2004), drawn from 11 states in all. Next: UT (12).
47% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 7, NV 1).
Off this map: 3 signees to the east (GA, PA, others).
- median hometown distance
- 572 mi
- within 100 mi
- 0%
- within 500 mi
- 0%
- 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.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | R4.24 | Brady Poppinga | Linebacker |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2005 | R5.36 | Scott Young | Offensive Guard |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2005 | R7.14 | Shaun Nua | Defensive End |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2004 | R7.39 | Colby Bockwoldt | Linebacker |  New Orleans Saints | Estimated |
| 2003 | R6.31 | Dustin Rykert | Offensive Tackle |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2003 | R7.20 | Spencer Nead | Tight End |  New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2002 | R2.23 | Doug Jolley | Tight End | Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2002 | R2.29 | Ryan Denney | Defensive End |  Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | R5.28 | Brandon Doman | Quarterback |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.03 | Luke Staley | Running Back |  Detroit Lions | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.31 | Brett Keisel | Defensive End | Pittsburgh Steelers | 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
2nd-best BYU tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed LaVell Edwards (1972–2000) · succeeded by Bronco Mendenhall (2005–2015).
| Season | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 12-2 | 5-7 | 4-8 | 5-6 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | — | — | — | 29 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | 37 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | 54.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | 40.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | |
9th-best Louisiana Tech tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Followed Joe Peace (1988–1995) · succeeded by Jack Bicknell (1999–2006).
1 NFL Draft pick: Troy Edwards (1999)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+5.8 pts at Louisiana Tech · #356 of 1290 · middle half