J.T. King

Head coach, Texas Tech, 1961 to 1969

College career44-45-3

Program liftNo. 765tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

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.

8-13 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Charles Shira.

Rivalry record

8-13

38.1% · 3 rivals

One-score games

18-12-3

54.5% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

2-5

28.6%

Rivalry ledger

Texas2-722%

Baylor4-544%

Oklahoma State2-167%

The toughest matchup

vs. Charles Shira0-2-1

3 meetings, 1967–1969

’67 L’68 T’69 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

Blue Blood

2-5 28.6%

Power Program

3-13 18.8%

National Program

25-23 52.1%

Regional Program

14-4 77.8%

Building the roster

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

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1961-1969) 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

at least7Drafted

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. 2 went in the first round.

At least 7 — his 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 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.

0 roster-verified · 7 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1970	R3.23	Denton Fox	Defensive Back	Dallas Cowboys	Estimated
1969	R4.09	Jacky Stewart	Running Back	Baltimore Colts	Estimated
1969	R6.12	Ken Vinyard	Place Kicker	Green Bay Packers	Estimated
1968	R4.10	Ed Mooney	Linebacker	Detroit Lions	Estimated
1965	R1.07				Estimated
1964	R1.01				Estimated
1962	R3.39				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.