Ron Vanderlinden

Head coach, Maryland, 1997 to 2000

College career15-29

Program liftNo. 740tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

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.

Winless in 4 tries against Bobby Bowden.

One-score games

7-5

58.3% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods 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%

Building the roster

Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2Where he recruits
3The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1997-2000) 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.

Where he recruits

MDTop state

is his biggest recruiting state: 1 of 1 signees (100%) across his 2000–2000 classes on record (his tenure ran 1997–2000), drawn from 1 state in all.

Where his signees came from, 2000–2000 (1 high-school, JUCO and prep signees)

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

7Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

0 roster-verified · 7 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
2001	R2.13	Kris Jenkins	Defensive Tackle	Carolina Panthers	Estimated
2001	R2.18	LaMont Jordan	Running Back	New York Jets	Estimated
2000	R4.01	Lewis Sanders	Defensive Back	Cleveland Browns	Estimated
2000	R7.10	Delbert Cowsette	Defensive Tackle	Washington Redskins	Estimated
1999	R5.13	Eric Barton	Linebacker	Oakland Raiders	Estimated
1999	R6.18	Kendall Ogle	Linebacker	Cleveland Browns	Estimated
1998	R6.10	Eric Ogbogu	Defensive End	New York Jets	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.