Hal Mitchell: coaching record and career

Now

Career arc

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.

0-6 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Ray Nagel.

Rivalry record

0-6

0.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

3-6

33.3% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Utah0-30%

Utah State0-30%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ray Nagel0-3

3 meetings, 1961–1963

’61 L’62 L’63 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

National Program

1-10 9.1%

Regional Program

6-8 42.9%

Building the roster

One numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1961-1963) 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.

Career

Coaching career

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The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1961–1963

BYU Steady

Regional Program V → Regional Program V

Closest comparable run: Mark Whipple’s Massachusetts run (2014–2018)

Hal Mitchell held BYU at Regional Program V for 3 seasons.

−1.4 pts over 3 seasons · top 40% of 3-5-season tenures (717 in sample)

11th-best BYU tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Followed Tally Stevens (1959–1960) · succeeded by Tommy Hudspeth (1964–1971).

8-22

Was he good?

Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.

Raised the program

-1.4 pts at BYU · #773 of 1290 · middle half