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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 11-6
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2000Mobile Alabama BowlL 21-28
2001Galleryfurniture.com BowlL 9-28
2002Liberty BowlW 17-3
2003Fort Worth BowlL 31-34
2005Houston BowlW 27-24
2006Poinsettia BowlW 37-7
2007Texas BowlW 20-13
2008Poinsettia BowlW 17-16
2009Fiesta BowlL 10-17
2010Rose BowlW 21-19
2011Poinsettia BowlW 31-24
2012Buffalo Wild Wings BowlL 16-17
2014Peach BowlW 42-3
2015Alamo BowlW 47-41
2016Liberty BowlL 23-31
2017Alamo BowlW 39-37
2018Cheez-It BowlW 10-7
Poach watch
Every coordinator →USC defensive coordinator, 2026
This winter
Our poach model, on his team’s results so far, how his unit compares with the FBS average this season and last, his program’s standing and his role. Ranked against the 329 FBS coordinators with 3+ games this season. The zone words describe the market’s interest; none of them says he is leaving.
What drives his number
The biggest factors, each against the typical FBS coordinator today.
- ▼ LowerA Power Four program · 91st percentile of FBS in program stature last season
- ▼ LowerHis defense allows 1.1 points a game fewer than the FBS average · no FBS unit on record for him last season
How good is this number? It ranks a coordinator who moves up ahead of one who stays 71 to 73% of the time, and its average matches the share who actually move. What it can’t do
Tested on every FBS coordinator from 2018 through 2025, each season scored by a model fit only on the seasons before it: from three games on, given one coordinator who moved up and one who didn’t, it ranked the one who moved ahead 71 to 73% of the time, and its average chance came within a tenth of a point of the share who actually moved.
- Counting a coordinator who follows his hired-away head coach as moving up was decided after the model’s first results were seen.
- Much of the signal comes through his head coach: coordinators often move because their boss is hired away. This site’s number for head coaches is now live, on each head coach’s page, but this number doesn’t use it.
- Moves to NFL coordinator jobs are undercounted in the history it learned from; they were found mainly for coordinators with Wikipedia pages.
- On its own it is weak at picking which coordinator lands a head-coaching job (about 60% on the same test). The number is about moving up by any route.
- It is frozen: it learns nothing from 2026 until a deliberate refit.
Report card
Above the median on both sides of the ball — 71st percentile offense, 72nd percentile defense.
TCU, 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
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.
24-8 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Lincoln Riley.
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.
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
Ran more than the situation called for under Cumbie and Meacham; passed more under Cumbie/Meacham.
12,815 run and pass snaps at TCU, 2004–2021, 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. 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
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 4 ranked TCU classes of his own have averaged #37 nationally — best #25, worst #61.
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 — 107 of 107 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 19% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2000–2021Counting players who have since left: 19% of the 26 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 TCU rosters have averaged 6 lb heavier than the FBS average (2010–2021 rosters on record) — heavier than 84% of FBS coaching runs since 2010.
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: 203 of 309 signees (66%) across his 2002–2021 classes on record (his tenure ran 2000–2021), drawn from 25 states in all. Next: LA (32).
79% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (LA 32, OK 8).
Off this map: 21 signees to the west (CA 18, NV 2, others), 18 to the east (FL 11, NC 2, others) and 5 to the north (IL 2, WA 2, others).
- median hometown distance
- 236 mi
- within 100 mi
- 22%
- within 500 mi
- 69%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 19%
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 23 of them himself. 26 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record). 6 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | R2.11 | Trevon Moehrig | Safety |  Las Vegas Raiders | |
| 2021 | R5.26 | Garret Wallow | Inside Linebacker |  Houston Texans | |
| 2020 | R1.21 | Jalen Reagor | Wide Receiver |  Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2020 | R1.31 | Jeff Gladney | Cornerback |  Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2020 | R2.08 | Ross Blacklock | Defensive Tackle | Houston Texans | |
| 2020 | R3.32 | Lucas Niang | Offensive Tackle |  Kansas City Chiefs | |
| 2020 | R7.22 | Vernon Scott | Safety |  Green Bay Packers | |
| 2019 | R1.29 | L.J. Collier | Defensive End |  Seattle Seahawks |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | R2.17 | Ben Banogu | Outside Linebacker |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2019 | R7.12 | Ty Summers | Inside Linebacker | Green Bay Packers | |
| 2018 | R3.25 | Joe Noteboom | Offensive Tackle |  Los Angeles Rams | Estimated |
| 2018 | R6.32 | Matt Pryor | Offensive Tackle | Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2018 | R7.13 | Travin Howard | Outside Linebacker | Los Angeles Rams | |
| 2017 | R7.09 | Josh Carraway | Outside Linebacker |  Tennessee Titans | |
| 2016 | R1.22 | Josh Doctson | Wide Receiver |  Washington Redskins | |
| 2016 | R4.31 | Derrick Kindred | Safety |  Cleveland Browns | |
| 2016 | R5.25 | Halapoulivaati Vaitai | Offensive Tackle | Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2016 | R6.17 | Kolby Listenbee | Wide Receiver |  Buffalo Bills | |
| 2016 | R6.40 | Joey Hunt | Center | Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2015 | R3.35 | Paul Dawson | Outside Linebacker |  Cincinnati Bengals | |
| 2015 | R6.07 | Tayo Fabuluje | Offensive Tackle |  Chicago Bears | |
| 2014 | R1.25 | Jason Verrett | Cornerback |  San Diego Chargers | |
| 2013 | R4.05 | Josh Boyce | Wide Receiver |  New England Patriots | |
| 2013 | R5.20 | Stansly Maponga | Defensive End |  Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2012 | R5.12 | Tank Carder | Outside Linebacker | Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2012 | R7.13 | Greg McCoy | Cornerback | Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2011 | R2.03 | Andy Dalton | Quarterback | Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
| 2011 | R5.07 | Marcus Cannon | Offensive Tackle | New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2011 | R5.22 | Jeremy Kerley | Wide Receiver |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2011 | R6.25 | Colin Jones | Safety |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2011 | R7.16 | Malcolm Williams | Defensive Back | New England Patriots | |
| 2010 | R1.31 | Jerry Hughes | Outside Linebacker | Indianapolis Colts | Estimated |
| 2010 | R2.15 | Daryl Washington | Outside Linebacker |  Arizona Cardinals | Estimated |
| 2010 | R5.38 | Marshall Newhouse | Offensive Guard | Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2009 | R5.01 | Jason Phillips | Inside Linebacker |  Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.13 | Robert Henson | Inside Linebacker | Washington Redskins | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.19 | Aaron Brown | Running Back |  Detroit Lions | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.24 | Stephen Hodge | Outside Linebacker |  Dallas Cowboys | Estimated |
| 2009 | R7.16 | Blake Schlueter | Center |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2007 | R4.15 | Marvin White | Defensive Back | Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
| 2007 | R6.22 | Herbert Taylor | Offensive Guard | Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2006 | R4.07 | Cory Rodgers | Wide Receiver | Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2006 | R5.29 | Michael Toudouze | Offensive Tackle | Indianapolis Colts | Estimated |
| 2006 | R6.20 | Drew Coleman | Defensive Back | New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2005 | R5.26 | Anthony Alabi | Offensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins | Estimated |
| 2004 | R4.07 | Bo Schobel | Defensive End | Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2003 | R5.23 | Adrian Madise | Wide Receiver | Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2003 | R6.23 | LaTarence Dunbar | Wide Receiver | Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2002 | R3.02 | Matt Schobel | Tight End |  Carolina Panthers | 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.
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.
Transformer raised the program into the sport's top tier, or higher within it
2nd-best TCU tenure of 13 by the numbers.
Followed Dennis Franchione (1998–2000) · succeeded by Jerry Kill (2021).
| Season | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record | 0-1 | 6-6 | 10-2 | 11-2 | 5-6 | 11-1 | 11-2 | 8-5 | 11-2 | 12-1 | 13-0 | 11-2 | 7-6 | 4-8 | 12-1 | 11-2 | 6-7 | 11-3 | 7-6 | 5-7 | 6-4 | 3-5 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Doug Meacham / Sonny Cumbie | Doug Meacham / Sonny Cumbie | Doug Meacham / Sonny Cumbie | Curtis Luper / Sonny Cumbie | Curtis Luper / Sonny Cumbie | Curtis Luper / Sonny Cumbie | Sonny Cumbie | Doug Meacham | |
| DC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dick Bumpas | Chad Glasgow / DeMontie Cross | Chad Glasgow | Chad Glasgow | Chad Glasgow | Chad Glasgow | Chad Glasgow | Chad Glasgow | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | 34 | 60 | 92 | 39 | 87 | 60 | 97 | 89 | 41 | 5 | 84 | 73 | 44 | 70 | 6 | 26 | 70 | 64 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | 58 | 92 | 100 | 92 | 97 | 98 | 91 | 82 | 96 | 92 | 99 | 80 | 38 | 88 | 87 | 78 | 82 | 7 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | 33.3 | 39.7 | 39.7 | 40.8 | 35.8 | 36.4 | 36.5 | 37.1 | 40.5 | 50.0 | 45.1 | 44.3 | 50.3 | 44.4 | 42.0 | 38.5 | 37.5 | 41.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | 33.3 | 23.8 | 30.4 | 25.5 | 27.4 | 26.5 | 27.4 | 34.4 | 36.5 | 27.0 | 39.0 | 36.6 | 45.4 | 36.2 | 40.2 | 36.0 | 26.9 | 36.2 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | 27.1 | 15.0 | 31.1 | 23.0 | 21.2 | 25.0 | 24.1 | 25.5 | 24.4 | 21.2 | 26.0 | 24.4 | 25.6 | 23.4 | 20.5 | 25.0 | 41.0 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Trevon Moehrig (2020)
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.
3rd-most wins by a Mountain West coach
Was he good?
The data leans positive, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+26.0 pts at TCU · #37 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.