Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
2023Fenway BowlW 23-14
Report card
Offense carries it: 50th percentile offense, below the median defense at 40th.
Boston College, 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.
Winless in 3 tries against Dabo Swinney.
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
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.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Shimko; passed more under McNulty.
3,161 run and pass snaps at Boston College, 2020–2023, 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
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 3 ranked Boston College classes of his own have averaged #46 nationally — best #36, worst #61.
His class — he had the full signing cycleTransition — he was hired mid-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; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2023 roster arrived on his watch — 111 of 118 players. The other 7 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 10% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2020–2023Counting players who have since left: 12% of the 117 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 Boston College rosters have averaged 3 lb heavier than the FBS average (2020–2023). In the three seasons before he arrived, Boston College’s line averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average.
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: 15 of 78 signees (19%) across his 2020–2023 tenure, drawn from 18 states in all. Next: MD (11).
24% of his signees come from MA and its 5 border states (CT 4).
Off this map: 5 signees to the west (CA 2, NV 2, others).
- median hometown distance
- 486 mi
- within 100 mi
- 17%
- within 500 mi
- 51%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 29%
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 were his own recruits yet: all 6 roster-verified picks arrived under Steve Addazio. 2 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R3.27 | Elijah Jones | Cornerback |  Arizona Cardinals | recruited under Steve Addazio |
| 2024 | R6.34 | Christian Mahogany | Offensive Guard |  Detroit Lions | recruited under Steve Addazio |
| 2023 | R1.23 | Zay Flowers | Wide Receiver |  Baltimore Ravens | recruited under Steve Addazio |
| 2022 | R1.17 | Zion Johnson | Offensive Guard |  Los Angeles Chargers | recruited under Steve Addazio |
| 2021 | R3.18 | Hunter Long | Tight End |  Miami Dolphins | recruited under Steve Addazio |
| 2021 | R6.36 | Isaiah McDuffie | Inside Linebacker |  Green Bay Packers | recruited under Steve Addazio |
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
17th-best Boston College tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Steve Addazio (2013–2019) · succeeded by Bill O'Brien (2024–now).
| Season | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 6-5 | 6-6 | 3-9 | 7-6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | W bowl | |
| Coordinators | |||||
| OC | Frank Cignetti | Frank Cignetti | John McNulty | Steve Shimko | |
| DC | Tem Lukabu | Tem Lukabu | Tem Lukabu | Aazaar Abdul-Rahim / Sean Duggan | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 65 | 26 | 23 | 63 | |
| Defense | 17 | 67 | 38 | 18 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 45.1 | 30.4 | 51.6 | 35.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 52.6 | 30.8 | 54.5 | 33.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 38.7 | 37.8 | 23.3 | 55.3 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Typical size for position, once adjusted for position mix.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
1 player-season honored (All-America / national award): Zion Johnson (2021)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-4.7 pts at Boston College · #988 of 1290 · bottom quarter