Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-4
2003Silicon Valley Football ClassicL 9-17
2004Las Vegas BowlL 21-24
2005Sun BowlW 50-38
2006Emerald BowlL 27-44
Colorado
2020Alamo BowlL 23-55
Report card
Offense carries it: 28th percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 22nd.
Colorado, 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
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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.
1-3 against his rivals at UCLA. Just 1-3 against Bill Doba.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
0-2 against his rivals at Colorado.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
1-5 against his rivals. Just 1-3 against Bill Doba.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Chiaverini.
1,126 run and pass snaps at Colorado, 2020–2021, 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
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Colorado class of his own finished #65 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleInherited — signed before he arrived
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 2022 roster arrived on his watch — 60 of 119 players. The other 59 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 3% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2020–2022Counting players who have since left: 17% of the 30 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.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 17 of 61 signees (28%) across his 2020–2022 tenure, drawn from 15 states in all. Next: CA (13).
31% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (AR 1, LA 1).
1 signee without a plottable hometown location not shown.
- median hometown distance
- 826 mi
- within 100 mi
- 20%
- within 500 mi
- 22%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 16%
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 1 roster-verified picks arrived under Mike MacIntyre.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | R6.13 | William Sherman | Offensive Tackle |  New England Patriots | recruited under Mike MacIntyre |
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
18th-best Colorado tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Mel Tucker (2019) · succeeded by Mike Sanford Jr. (2022).
| Season | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 4-2 | 4-8 | 0-5 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Darrin Chiaverini | Darrin Chiaverini | Clay Patterson / Mike Sanford | |
| DC | Tyson Summers | Chris Wilson | Chris Wilson | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 25 | 10 | 5 | |
| Defense | 67 | 31 | 2 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 25.5 | 28.8 | 44.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 15.5 | 31.2 | 29.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 23.8 | 29.4 | 37.9 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
9th-best UCLA tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Bob Toledo (1996–2002) · succeeded by Rick Neuheisel (2008–2011).
| Season | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 6-7 | 6-6 | 10-2 | 7-6 | 6-6 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | — | 53 | 70 | 15 | 6 | |
| Defense | — | 44 | 1 | 72 | 99 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | 44.3 | 50.0 | 39.8 | 34.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | 37.6 | 31.3 | 39.3 | 34.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 41.4 | 27.8 | 9.1 | 15.4 | |
15 NFL Draft picks: Matt Ware (2004), Brandon Chillar (2004), Dave Ball (2004), Rodney Leisle (2004), Manuel White (2005), Ben Emanuel (2005), Tab Perry (2005), Craig Bragg (2005) + 7 more
Was he good?
The data leans negative: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-4.8 pts at UCLA · #998 of 1290 · bottom quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.