Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 4-7
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1999Las Vegas BowlL 16-17
2000Silicon Valley ClassicL 34-37
2001Silicon Valley Football ClassicL 35-44
2002Silicon Valley Football ClassicW 30-21
2003Silicon Valley Football ClassicW 17-9
2004MPC Computers BowlW 37-34
2005Liberty BowlL 24-31
2007Humanitarian BowlW 40-28
2008New Mexico BowlL 35-40
2009New Mexico BowlL 28-35
2010Humanitarian BowlL 17-40
Report card
Above the median offense — 63rd percentile.
Fresno State, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
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.
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.
2-13 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Dan Hawkins.
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.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for.
3,763 run and pass snaps at Fresno State, 2004–2011, 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. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.
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
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2011 roster arrived on his watch — 101 of 101 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (1997-2011) 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
is his biggest recruiting state: 139 of 155 signees (90%) across his 2003–2011 classes on record (his tenure ran 1997–2011), drawn from 5 states in all. Next: TX (6).
95% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (NV 5, AZ 4).
Off this map: 7 signees to the east (TX 6, VA).
- median hometown distance
- 159 mi
- within 100 mi
- 22%
- within 500 mi
- 94%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 5%
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 can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 3 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | R4.12 | Devon Wylie | Wide Receiver |  Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2011 | R5.31 | Christopher Carter | Outside Linebacker |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2011 | R7.07 | Andrew Jackson | Offensive Guard |  Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2010 | R1.12 | Ryan Mathews | Running Back |  San Diego Chargers | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.01 | Tom Brandstater | Quarterback |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2009 | R6.11 | Bear Pascoe | Tight End |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2008 | R5.10 | Jason Shirley | Defensive Tackle |  Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
| 2007 | R3.08 | Marcus McCauley | Defensive Back |  Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R3.16 | Paul Williams | Wide Receiver |  Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2007 | R4.12 | Dwayne Wright | Running Back |  Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2007 | R7.04 | Chris Denman | Offensive Tackle |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2006 | R2.26 | Richard Marshall | Defensive Back |  Carolina Panthers | Estimated |
| 2006 | R6.15 | Adam Jennings | Wide Receiver | Atlanta Falcons | Estimated |
| 2006 | R6.16 | Tyrone Culver | Defensive Back |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2005 | R1.32 | Logan Mankins | Offensive Guard |  New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2005 | R4.32 | James Sanders | Defensive Back | New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2004 | R3.15 | Bernard Berrian | Wide Receiver |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2003 | R3.19 | Sam Williams | Linebacker |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2002 | R1.01 | David Carr | Quarterback |  Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2002 | R4.23 | Alan Harper | Defensive End |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.10 | Maurice Rodriguez | Linebacker | Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.38 | Rodney Wright | Wide Receiver | Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2001 | R4.09 | Orlando Huff | Linebacker |  Seattle Seahawks | Estimated |
| 1999 | R3.04 | Cory Hall | Defensive Back |  Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
| 1998 | R3.05 | Chris Conrad | Offensive Tackle |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 1998 | R4.03 | Michael Pittman | Running Back |  Arizona Cardinals | 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
2nd-best Fresno State tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Sweeney (1980–1996) · succeeded by Tim DeRuyter (2012–2016).
| Season | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||||||||||
| Record | 6-6 | 5-6 | 8-5 | 7-5 | 11-3 | 9-5 | 9-5 | 9-3 | 8-5 | 4-8 | 9-4 | 7-6 | 8-5 | 8-5 | 4-9 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | L bowl | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | L bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 84 | 93 | 27 | 98 | 82 | 85 | 65 | 80 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | 34 | 47 | 15 | 16 | 24 | 48 | 23 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32.9 | 42.7 | 46.3 | 32.0 | 40.7 | 34.6 | 39.1 | 49.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 36.5 | 46.1 | 36.4 | 29.9 | 35.7 | 32.1 | 37.6 | 43.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 37.5 | 42.4 | 13.3 | 22.4 | 7.9 | 50.0 | 16.7 | 20.0 | |
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
2nd all-time at Fresno State
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+6.7 pts at Fresno State · #324 of 1290 · middle half