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Career arc
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.
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.
1-3 against his rivals at Rice. Winless in 3 tries against Grant Teaff.
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 4 tries against Joe Paterno.
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.
1-3 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Joe Paterno.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Rice→
Temple1989Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (1989-1992) 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
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
10th-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Bruce Arians (1983–1988) · succeeded by Ron Dickerson (1993–1997).
15th-best Rice tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Watson Brown (1984–1985) · succeeded by Fred Goldsmith (1989–1993).
1 NFL Draft pick: Courtney Hall (1989)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+0.4 pts at Rice · #658 of 1290 · middle half