The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Ron Vanderlinden

Followed Mark Duffner. Ron Vanderlinden held Maryland at Regional Program I for 4 seasons.

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1997–2000 · 1 stint

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 Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Maryland, 4 seasons

−0.9

Regional Program II → Regional Program I.

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 4 tries against Bobby Bowden.

One-score games

6–5

54.5% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–4

0.0%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bobby Bowden0–4

4 meetings, 1997–2000

’97 L’98 L’99 L’00 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0–4 0.0%

Power Program

2–7 22.2%

National Program

1–14 6.7%

Regional Program

10–4 71.4%

Coaching career

1997–2000

Marylandcaretaker

Regional Program I → Regional Program I

Ron Vanderlinden held Maryland at Regional Program I for 4 seasons.

15th-best Maryland tenure of 21 by the numbers.

Followed Mark Duffner (1992–1996) · succeeded by Ralph Friedgen (2001–2010).

8 NFL Draft picks: Chad Scott (1997), Eric Ogbogu (1998), Eric Barton (1999), Kendall Ogle (1999), Lewis Sanders (2000), Delbert Cowsette (2000), Kris Jenkins (2001), LaMont Jordan (2001)

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