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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 5-6
Georgia Tech’97W’98W’99L’00LUCF’05L’07L’09L’10W’12W’13W’14L
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1997Carquest BowlW 35-30
1998Gator BowlW 35-28
1999Gator BowlL 13-28
2000Peach BowlL 14-28
UCF
2005Hawaii BowlL 48-49
2007Liberty BowlL 3-10
2009St. Petersburg BowlL 24-45
2010Liberty BowlW 10-6
2012Beef 'O' Brady's BowlW 38-17
2013Fiesta BowlW 52-42
2014St. Petersburg BowlL 27-34Report card
Above the median on both sides of the ball — 62nd percentile offense, 50th percentile defense.
UCF, 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.
3-5 against his rivals at Georgia Tech. Winless in 8 tries against Bobby Bowden.
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 UCF. Just 1-4 against Skip Holtz.
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.
5-10 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Skip Holtz.
Signature games
These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.
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 under every play-caller.
7,149 run and pass snaps at UCF, 2004–2015, 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.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2015 roster arrived on his watch — 117 of 117 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2004-2015) 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.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his UCF rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2010–2015 rosters on record).
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: 118 of 208 signees (57%) across his 2004–2015 tenure, drawn from 18 states in all. Next: GA (41).
78% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (GA 41, AL 4).
Off this map: 9 signees to the west (CA 4, TX 3, others) and 4 to the north (MN 2, NY 2).
- median hometown distance
- 186 mi
- within 100 mi
- 27%
- within 500 mi
- 81%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 4%
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 5 of them himself. 11 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record). 2 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | R1.26 | Breshad Perriman | Wide Receiver |  Baltimore Ravens | |
| 2015 | R4.10 | Clayton Geathers | Safety |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2014 | R1.03 | Blake Bortles | Quarterback |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2014 | R7.07 | Storm Johnson | Running Back | Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| 2013 | R6.13 | Latavius Murray | Running Back |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2013 | R7.37 | Kemal Ishmael | Safety |  Atlanta Falcons | |
| 2012 | R3.03 | Josh Robinson | Cornerback |  Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2011 | R3.21 | Jah Reid | Offensive Tackle | Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | R7.08 | Bruce Miller | Defensive End |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2010 | R2.09 | Torell Troup | Defensive Tackle |  Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2009 | R5.32 | Joe Burnett | Cornerback |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2008 | R3.01 | Kevin Smith | Running Back |  Detroit Lions | Estimated |
| 2008 | R4.36 | Josh Sitton | Offensive Tackle |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2008 | R7.32 | Mike Merritt | Tight End |  Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2007 | R3.15 | Mike Walker | Wide Receiver |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2006 | R4.22 | Brandon Marshall | Wide Receiver |  Denver Broncos | 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.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
3rd-best UCF tenure of 7 by the numbers.
Followed Mike Kruczek (1998–2003) · succeeded by Scott Frost (2016–2017).
| Season | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||
| Record | 0-11 | 8-5 | 4-8 | 10-4 | 4-8 | 8-5 | 11-3 | 5-7 | 10-4 | 12-1 | 9-4 | 0-8 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | — | L bowl | — | L bowl | W bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Charlie Taaffe | Brent Key | |
| DC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Tyson Summers | Chuck Bresnahan | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||
| Offense | 48 | 74 | 79 | 63 | 0 | 26 | 57 | 85 | 86 | 75 | 38 | 3 | |
| Defense | 49 | 0 | 14 | 82 | 86 | 35 | 62 | 60 | 64 | 36 | 94 | 7 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 25.4 | 34.9 | 35.9 | 26.6 | 32.1 | 36.3 | 27.4 | 42.2 | 38.3 | 41.1 | 38.1 | 37.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 40.0 | 30.4 | 32.3 | 21.4 | 27.8 | 41.7 | 22.2 | 29.2 | 35.3 | 41.7 | 33.3 | 38.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 25.9 | 27.3 | 28.6 | 23.3 | 25.0 | 28.9 | 34.9 | 28.2 | 11.5 | 30.2 | 33.3 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
6th-best Georgia Tech tenure of 14 by the numbers.
Followed Bill Lewis (1992–1993) · succeeded by Chan Gailey (2002–2007).
| Season | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 0-3 | 6-5 | 5-6 | 7-5 | 10-2 | 8-4 | 9-3 | 7-5 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
13 NFL Draft picks: Lethon Flowers (1995), Charlie Simmons (1995), Jamal Cox (1995), Keith Brooking (1998), Ron Rogers (1998), Nate Stimson (1999), Charlie Rogers (1999), Rodney Williams (1999) + 5 more
Was he good?
A mixed record — ahead of expectations by some measures here, behind by others. The honest read is that it depends which lens you use.
+7.6 pts at UCF · #291 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.