Joey Jones
Joey Jones held South Alabama at Regional Program II for 6 seasons.
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).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
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.
3–3 against his rivals. Just 1–3 against Blake Anderson.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
1st-best South Alabama tenure of 4 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Succeeded by Steve Campbell (2018–2021).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 2–11 | 6–6 | 6–7 | 5–7 | 6–7 | 4–8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | — | CFP loss | — | |
| Recruiting rank | — | — | #114 | #88 | #87 | #116 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||
| Pass rate | — | — | 43.4 | 42.3 | 46.9 | 52.3 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | — | — | Bryant Vincent / Robert Matthews | Bryant Vincent | Bryant Vincent | Bryant Vincent | |
| DC | — | — | Travis Pearson | Travis Pearson | Kane Wommack | Kane Wommack | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | — | — | 12 | 17 | 51 | 6 | |
| Defense | — | — | 31 | 24 | 40 | 58 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 38.5 | 29.8 | 33.3 | 46.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 44.6 | 31.1 | 31.2 | 54.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 14.3 | 28.9 | 42.5 | 29.7 | |
1 NFL Draft pick: Gerald Everett (2017)