Mike Kruczek

Head coach, UCF, 1998 to 2003

College career36-30

Program liftNo. 411tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

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.

Nobody he faced three or more times has a winning record against him.

One-score games

6-11

35.3% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

1-1

50.0%

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

1-1 50.0%

Power Program

0-10 0.0%

National Program

0-7 0.0%

Regional Program

23-5 82.1%

Building the roster

Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2Where he recruits
3The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1998-2003) 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.

Where he recruits

FLTop state

is his biggest recruiting state: 18 of 38 signees (47%) across his 2002–2003 classes on record (his tenure ran 1998–2003), drawn from 9 states in all. Next: CA (6).

Where his signees came from, 2002–2003 (38 high-school, JUCO and prep signees)

53% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (AL 1, GA 1).

By region

South

West

Midwest

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

9Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 1 went in the first round.

0 roster-verified · 9 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
2004	R7.31	Michael Gaines	Tight End	Carolina Panthers	Estimated
2003	R4.23	Asante Samuel	Defensive Back	New England Patriots	Estimated
2003	R5.32	Doug Gabriel	Wide Receiver	Oakland Raiders	Estimated
2003	R7.36	Mike Mabry	Center	Baltimore Ravens	Estimated
2003	R7.45	Elton Patterson	Defensive End	Cincinnati Bengals	Estimated
2002	R2.32	Travis Fisher	Defensive Back	St. Louis Rams	Estimated
2000	R7.36	Charles Lee	Wide Receiver	Green Bay Packers	Estimated
1999	R1.11	Daunte Culpepper	Quarterback	Minnesota Vikings	Estimated

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1999	R4.01	Paul Miranda	Defensive Back	Indianapolis Colts	Estimated

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.