Mike MacIntyre
Defensive coordinator across 3 programs, 3 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
Mike MacIntyre
Followed Butch Davis. Mike MacIntyre slid Florida International from Regional Program IV to Regional Program V in 3 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.
5–5 against his rivals. Just 1–6 against Rich Rodriguez.
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
6th-best Florida International tenure of 6 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Butch Davis (2017–2021) · succeeded by Willie Simmons (2025–2026).
| Season | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 4–8 | 4–8 | 4–8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | — | #94 | #109 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||
| Pass rate | 56.8 | 50.2 | 45.8 | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | David Yost | David Yost | David Yost | |
| DC | Jovan Dewitt | Jovan Dewitt | Jovan Dewitt | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 4 | 9 | 44 | |
| Defense | 13 | 36 | 77 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 57.4 | 51.6 | 42.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 52.1 | 39.5 | 36.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 60.0 | 54.5 | 43.3 | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
A typical class-year mix of incoming transfers.
15th-best Colorado tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Jon Embree (2011–2012) · succeeded by Mel Tucker (2019–2019).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 4–8 | 2–10 | 4–9 | 10–4 | 5–7 | 0–1 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | L bowl | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | — | #74 | #69 | #69 | #35 | #53 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||
| Pass rate | — | 54.7 | 46.2 | 42.5 | 45.1 | 48.1 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | — | Brian Lindgren | Brian Lindgren | Brian Lindgren / Darrin Chiaverini | Brian Lindgren / Darrin Chiaverini | Darrin Chiaverini / Klayton Adams | |
| DC | — | Kent Baer | Jim Leavitt | Jim Leavitt | D. J. Eliot | D. J. Eliot | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | — | 39 | 25 | 17 | 37 | 9 | |
| Defense | — | 18 | 47 | 85 | 26 | 53 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | 46.8 | 39.7 | 37.2 | 44.4 | 44.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | 41.8 | 37.0 | 28.2 | 38.9 | 36.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 40.4 | 28.6 | 30.8 | 41.7 | 33.3 | |
9 NFL Draft picks: David Bakhtiari (2013), Nick Kasa (2013), Paul Richardson (2014), Chidobe Awuzie (2017), Ahkello Witherspoon (2017), Tedric Thompson (2017), Jordan Carrell (2017), Isaiah Oliver (2018) + 1 more
17th-best San José State tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Dick Tomey (2005–2009) · succeeded by Ron Caragher (2013–2016).
1 NFL Draft pick: David Quessenberry (2013)