Jim Pittman
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
1970Liberty BowlW 17-3Stats
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.
0-5 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Charles McClendon.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Tulane→
TCU1971Players 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 (1971-1971) 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
Followed Fred Taylor (1967–1970).
18th-best Tulane tenure of 23 by the numbers.
Followed Tommy O'Boyle (1962–1965) · succeeded by Bennie Ellender (1971–1975).
| Season | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 5-4-1 | 3-7 | 2-8 | 3-7 | 8-4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | W bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | |
3 NFL Draft picks: Peter Johns (1967), Bob Duhon (1968), Warren Bankston (1969)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+2.9 pts at Tulane · #496 of 1290 · middle half