The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Jim Fassel

Followed Chuck Stobart. Jim Fassel held Utah at Regional Program I for 5 seasons.

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1985–1989 · 1 stint

Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Utah, 5 seasons

−5.9

Regional Program I → Regional Program II.

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.

1–4 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Fisher DeBerry.

Rivalry record

1–4

20.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

10–9

52.6% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–1

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

BYU1–420%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Fisher DeBerry0–5

5 meetings, 1985–1989

’85 L’86 L’87 L’88 L’89 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0–1 0.0%

Power Program

1–7 12.5%

National Program

4–12 25.0%

Regional Program

16–13 55.2%

Coaching career

1985–1989

Utahcaretaker

Regional Program I → Regional Program I

Jim Fassel held Utah at Regional Program I for 5 seasons.

10th-best Utah tenure of 13 by the numbers.

Followed Chuck Stobart (1982–1984) · succeeded by Ron McBride (1990–2002).

2 NFL Draft picks: Erroll Tucker (1986), Scott Mitchell (1990)

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