Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-4
2004Motor City BowlW 39-10
2007Meineke Car Care BowlL 10-24
2008International BowlW 38-20
2009PapaJohns.com BowlW 20-7
2010Fiesta BowlL 20-48
Maryland
2013Military BowlL 20-31
2014Foster Farms BowlL 21-45
Report card
Defense carries it: 54th percentile defense, below the median offense at 39th.
Maryland, 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 5 tries against Rich Rodriguez.
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.
1-1 against his rivals at Maryland. Winless in 3 tries against Dabo Swinney.
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 Charlie Strong.
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.
1-1 against his rivals. Winless in 6 tries against Tom O'Brien.
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 under every play-caller.
3,265 run and pass snaps at Maryland, 2011–2015, 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 3 ranked UConn classes of his own have averaged #112 nationally — best #102, worst #118.
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.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2015 roster arrived on his watch — 107 of 107 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2011-2015) 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 3 lb lighter than the FBS average (2010–2019 (4 seasons) rosters on record) — lighter than 78% of FBS coaching runs since 2010.
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: 29 of 84 signees (35%) across his 2011–2015 tenure, drawn from 19 states in all. Next: DC (11).
64% of his signees come from MD and its 5 border states (DC 11, PA 8, DE 3, VA 3).
Off this map: 7 signees to the south (FL 7) and 4 to the west (CA 2, AZ, others).
- median hometown distance
- 82 mi
- within 100 mi
- 54%
- within 500 mi
- 80%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 6%
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. He brought in 4 of them himself; 1 arrived under Ralph Friedgen. 2 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record).
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | R2.27 | Sean Davis | Safety |  Pittsburgh Steelers | |
| 2016 | R3.06 | Yannick Ngakoue | Defensive End |  Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| 2016 | R5.08 | Quinton Jefferson | Defensive Tackle |  Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2015 | R5.10 | Stefon Diggs | Wide Receiver |  Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2015 | R6.27 | Darius Kilgo | Defensive Tackle |  Denver Broncos | recruited under Ralph Friedgen |
| 2014 | R3.16 | Dex McDougle | Cornerback |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2013 | R7.18 | Kevin Dorsey | Wide Receiver |  Green Bay Packers | 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.
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
10th-best Maryland tenure of 21 by the numbers.
Followed Ralph Friedgen (2001–2010) · succeeded by D.J. Durkin (2016–2017).
| Season | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 2-10 | 4-8 | 7-6 | 7-6 | 2-4 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||
| OC | — | — | — | Mike Locksley | Mike Locksley | |
| DC | — | — | — | Brian Stewart | Keith Dudzinski | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 26 | 3 | 38 | 24 | 18 | |
| Defense | 12 | 70 | 72 | 33 | 54 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 45.5 | 30.9 | 43.3 | 46.5 | 39.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 44.8 | 33.8 | 43.7 | 34.1 | 38.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 35.6 | 30.3 | 17.1 | 21.9 | 27.0 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
1st-best UConn tenure of 8 by the numbers.
Followed Walt Nadzak (1979) · succeeded by Paul Pasqualoni (2011–2013) · returned in 2017, succeeding Bob Diaco (2014–2016) · succeeded by Lou Spanos (2021).
| Season | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||||||||
| Record | 3-8 | 2-9 | 6-6 | 9-3 | 8-4 | 5-6 | 4-8 | 9-4 | 8-5 | 8-5 | 8-5 | 3-9 | 1-11 | 2-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | W bowl | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Rhett Lashlee | John Dunn | Frank Giufre | Frank Giufre | — | |
| DC | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Billy Crocker | Billy Crocker | Lou Spanos | Lou Spanos | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | 72 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 41 | 48 | 14 | 17 | 24 | 7 | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | 81 | 99 | 37 | 46 | 100 | 25 | 60 | 8 | 0 | 1 | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | 43.5 | 36.8 | 27.9 | 32.5 | 31.1 | 35.4 | 31.8 | 41.4 | 31.1 | 43.6 | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | 47.0 | 32.5 | 33.3 | 30.0 | 32.2 | 21.3 | 32.7 | 36.5 | 35.2 | 49.2 | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | 34.3 | 16.2 | 26.3 | 14.7 | 2.2 | 24.4 | 21.2 | 46.0 | 48.3 | 27.3 | — | — | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
17 NFL Draft picks: Alfred Fincher (2005), Dan Orlovsky (2005), Deon Anderson (2007), Tyvon Branch (2008), Donald Thomas (2008), Donald Brown (2009), Darius Butler (2009), Will Beatty (2009) + 9 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.
1st all-time at UConn
Was he good?
The data leans negative: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-7.5 pts at Maryland · #1123 of 1290 · bottom quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.