Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2016Alamo BowlL 8-38
Coordinator years
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.
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from our coordinator career records; head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from the staff assignments record. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.
Report card
Offense carries it: 27th percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 13th.
Florida International, 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
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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.
Winless in 3 tries against Gary Andersen.
Signature games
These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.
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.
7-6 against his rivals at Colorado. Winless in 4 tries against Chris Petersen.
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.
Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
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.
7-6 against his rivals. Just 1-6 against Rich Rodriguez.
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
Passed more than the situation called for under Yost.
2,245 run and pass snaps at Florida International, 2022–2024, 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
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 2 ranked Florida International classes of his own have averaged #102 nationally — best #94, worst #109.
Colorado
Florida InternationalAcross every program: 3 ranked classes of his own, averaging #85 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
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.
Followed him here
San José State→Colorado2013Players 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
of his 2024 roster arrived on his watch — 98 of 112 players. The other 14 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 14% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
15% of his 149 new players since 2022 came through the portal (FBS programs, same seasons: 18%). His share was 14% in 2022 and 19% in 2024.
Graded on the players who arrived and the players who left together, his portal seasons came out better than most FBS programs’ in 1 and worse than most in 2 of the 3 seasons graded. our read
Each player counts once, in the season he arrived. 2021, the first season of portal tracking here, is left off because its arrival records look incomplete (about 31 new players per FBS team, against 52 in 2022). Portal grade: the site’s position-value-weighted scoring (the same engine as the Portal Heat feed and the “Who won the portal” grade): the value of the players who came in minus the value of the ones who left, ranked against every FBS program’s grade that same season. A season with fewer than 4 transfers in and out is not graded.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Florida International rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2022–2024). In the three seasons before he arrived, Florida International’s line averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 45 of 60 signees (75%) across his 2022–2024 tenure, drawn from 10 states in all. Next: TN (3).
77% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (AL 1).
Off this map: 4 signees to the west (CA 2, AZ, others) and 1 to the north (IA).
- median hometown distance
- 88 mi
- within 100 mi
- 51%
- within 500 mi
- 80%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 12%
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.
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
6th-best Florida International tenure of 6 by the numbers.
Followed Butch Davis (2017–2021) · succeeded by Willie Simmons (2025–now).
| Season | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 4-8 | 4-8 | 4-8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
15th-best Colorado tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Jon Embree (2011–2012) · succeeded by Mel Tucker (2019).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 4-8 | 2-10 | 4-9 | 10-4 | 5-7 | 5-6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | L bowl | — | — | |
| 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 | 6 | 39 | 25 | 17 | 37 | 9 | |
| Defense | 35 | 18 | 47 | 85 | 26 | 53 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 46.3 | 46.8 | 39.7 | 37.2 | 44.4 | 44.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.7 | 41.8 | 37.0 | 28.2 | 38.9 | 36.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 13.2 | 40.4 | 28.6 | 30.8 | 41.7 | 33.3 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
7 NFL Draft picks: Paul Richardson (2014), Chidobe Awuzie (2017), Ahkello Witherspoon (2017), Tedric Thompson (2017), Jordan Carrell (2017), Isaiah Oliver (2018), Juwann Winfree (2019)
17th-best San José State tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Dick Tomey (2005–2009) · succeeded by Ron Caragher (2013–2016).
| Season | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 1-12 | 5-7 | 10-2 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 36 | 40 | 75 | |
| Defense | 9 | 31 | 93 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 51.5 | 44.0 | 50.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 50.0 | 52.0 | 44.9 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 6.7 | 14.0 | 23.5 | |
1 NFL Draft pick: David Quessenberry (2013)
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+1.9 pts at San José State · #555 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.