Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
2010Armed Forces BowlW 16-14
Report card
Above the median offense — 69th percentile.
Army, 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.
1-9 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Ken Niumatalolo.
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.
Signature games
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.
3,645 run and pass snaps at Army, 2009–2013, 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
Three 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 — 157 of 157 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2009-2013) 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 Army rosters have averaged 43 lb lighter than the FBS average (2010–2013 rosters on record) — the lightest of all 352 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: 11 of 99 signees (11%) across his 2009–2013 tenure, drawn from 29 states in all. Next: PA (11).
17% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 4, NV 2).
- median hometown distance
- 895 mi
- within 100 mi
- 12%
- within 500 mi
- 26%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 46%
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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
14th-best Army tenure of 17 by the numbers.
Followed Stan Brock (2007–2008) · succeeded by Jeff Monken (2014–now).
| Season | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 5-7 | 7-6 | 3-9 | 2-10 | 3-9 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 5 | 47 | 90 | 81 | 65 | |
| Defense | 65 | 50 | 37 | 11 | 40 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 13.2 | 15.4 | 10.2 | 12.0 | 14.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 19.8 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 7.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 15.4 | 35.7 | 57.1 | 47.8 | 28.6 | |
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+2.3 pts at Army · #538 of 1290 · middle half