Rod Carey
Followed Geoff Collins. Rod Carey held Temple at National Program III for 3 seasons.
Career arc
His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.
Reached National Program in his 1st career season — faster than 41% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #1 of 675 by seasons-to-arrival).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
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.
9–2 against his rivals. Just 1–3 against John Bonamego.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
9th-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Followed Geoff Collins (2017–2018) · succeeded by Stan Drayton (2022–2024).
| Season | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 8–5 | 1–6 | 3–9 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #105 | #97 | #104 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||
| Pass rate | 49.6 | 45.9 | 50.1 | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Mike Uremovich | Mike Uremovich | Mike Uremovich | |
| DC | Jeff Knowles | Jeff Knowles | Jeff Knowles | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 23 | 11 | 7 | |
| Defense | 67 | 17 | 18 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 46.6 | 42.7 | 52.1 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 44.7 | 47.4 | 34.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 36.6 | 37.5 | 51.6 | |
A typical amount of portal roster-building.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
7 NFL Draft picks: Rock Ya-Sin (2019), Ryquell Armstead (2019), Michael Dogbe (2019), Matt Hennessy (2020), Harrison Hand (2020), Shaun Bradley (2020), Chapelle Russell (2020)
1st-best Northern Illinois tenure of 13 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Succeeded by Thomas Hammock (2019–2025).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 12–1 | 12–2 | 11–3 | 8–6 | 5–7 | 8–5 | 8–6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | L bowl | — | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Recruiting rank | — | — | #98 | #83 | #112 | #97 | #93 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||||||
| Pass rate | — | — | 35.9 | 38.6 | 42.2 | 42.1 | 40.2 | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | — | — | Bob Cole | Bob Cole | Mike Uremovich | Mike Uremovich | Mike Uremovich | |
| DC | — | — | Jay Niemann | Jay Niemann | Kevin Kane | Kevin Kane | Jeff Knowles | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | — | — | 75 | 21 | 69 | 18 | 20 | |
| Defense | — | — | 43 | 73 | 5 | 86 | 78 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 34.0 | 34.3 | 34.4 | 40.6 | 39.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 31.4 | 24.8 | 35.2 | 42.1 | 30.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 20.4 | 38.6 | 37.5 | 26.8 | 20.9 | |
7 NFL Draft picks: Chandler Harnish (2012), Jimmie Ward (2014), Ken Bishop (2014), Da'Ron Brown (2015), Kenny Golladay (2017), Max Scharping (2019), Sutton Smith (2019)