Paul Pasqualoni
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 6-3
Syracuse’91W’92W’95W’96W’97L’98L’99W’01W’04L
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1991Hall of Fame BowlW 24-17
1992Fiesta BowlW 26-22
1995Gator BowlW 41-0
1996Liberty BowlW 30-17
1997Fiesta BowlL 18-35
1998Orange BowlL 10-31
1999Music City BowlW 20-13
2001Insight BowlW 26-3
2004Champs Sports BowlL 14-51
Report card
Below the median offense — 29th percentile.
UConn, 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
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 Dennis Erickson.
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.
Just 1-2 against Charlie Strong.
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.
Winless in 3 tries against Dennis Erickson.
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
Called about what the situation called for.
1,577 run and pass snaps at UConn, 2011–2013, 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.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2013 roster arrived on his watch — 83 of 106 players. The other 23 are holdovers from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2011-2013) 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.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his UConn rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2011–2013).
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: 9 of 61 signees (15%) across his 2011–2013 tenure, drawn from 16 states in all. Next: FL (8).
33% of his signees come from CT and its 3 border states (NY 6, MA 5).
Off this map: 2 signees to the west (TX 2).
- median hometown distance
- 154 mi
- within 100 mi
- 40%
- within 500 mi
- 75%
- 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.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. None were his own recruits yet: all 2 roster-verified picks arrived under Randy Edsall. 6 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record).
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | R7.05 | Shamar Stephen | Defensive Tackle |  Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| 2014 | R7.38 | Yawin Smallwood | Inside Linebacker |  Atlanta Falcons | recruited under Randy Edsall |
| 2013 | R3.02 | Dwayne Gratz | Cornerback |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2013 | R3.04 | Sio Moore | Outside Linebacker |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2013 | R3.08 | Blidi Wreh-Wilson | Cornerback |  Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2013 | R4.27 | Trevardo Williams | Defensive End |  Houston Texans | recruited under Randy Edsall |
| 2013 | R6.33 | Ryan Griffin | Tight End | Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2012 | R2.17 | Kendall Reyes | Defensive Tackle |  San Diego Chargers | 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 UConn tenure of 8 by the numbers.
Followed Randy Edsall (2000–2010) · succeeded by Bob Diaco (2014–2016).
| Season | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 5-7 | 5-7 | 0-4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 13 | 8 | 18 | |
| Defense | 58 | 79 | 70 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 33.0 | 36.3 | 50.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 24.6 | 28.6 | 30.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 7.9 | 9.1 | 27.8 | |
2nd-best Syracuse tenure of 14 by the numbers.
Followed Dick MacPherson (1981–1990) · succeeded by Greg Robinson (2005–2008).
| Season | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||||
| Record | 10-2 | 10-2 | 6-4-1 | 7-4 | 9-3 | 9-3 | 9-4 | 8-4 | 7-5 | 6-5 | 10-3 | 4-8 | 6-6 | 6-6 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | W bowl | — | — | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | W bowl | — | W bowl | — | — | L bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 56 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 25.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 27.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 25.8 | |
30 NFL Draft picks: Qadry Ismail (1993), Chris Gedney (1993), Kevin Mitchell (1994), Pat O'Neill (1994), Melvin Tuten (1995), Dave Wohlabaugh (1995), Kevin Abrams (1997), Antonio Anderson (1997) + 22 more
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.
most wins by a Big East coach
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+6.2 pts at Syracuse · #337 of 1290 · middle half