Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-6
’94L’95L’97W’99L’00W’01W’02L’03L’05L
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1994Holiday BowlL 14-24
1995Holiday BowlL 21-54
1997Holiday BowlW 35-24
1999Liberty BowlL 17-23
2000Liberty BowlW 22-17
2001New Orleans BowlW 45-20
2002Liberty BowlL 3-17
2003San Francisco BowlL 21-35
2005Poinsettia BowlL 30-51
Report card
Above the median offense — 63rd percentile.
Colorado State, 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.
15-13 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Gary Patterson.
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.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for.
1,366 run and pass snaps at Colorado State, 2004–2007, 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. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.
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 2007 roster arrived on his watch — 30 of 30 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (1993-2007) 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
is his biggest recruiting state: 43 of 117 signees (37%) across his 2001–2007 classes on record (his tenure ran 1993–2007), drawn from 13 states in all. Next: CO (39).
41% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 3, NV 2).
Off this map: 4 signees to the east (FL 4).
- median hometown distance
- 133 mi
- within 100 mi
- 50%
- within 500 mi
- 75%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 12%
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 (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.
At least 16 — the draft class following his 1995 season is missing from this table entirely.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R5.34 | Clint Oldenburg | Offensive Tackle |  New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2006 | R7.43 | David Anderson | Wide Receiver |  Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2005 | R6.24 | Joel Dreessen | Tight End |  New York Jets | Estimated |
| 2004 | R6.27 | Dexter Wynn | Defensive Back |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2004 | R7.49 | Bradlee Van Pelt | Quarterback |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2004 | R7.54 | Andre Sommersell | Linebacker |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2001 | R4.22 | John Howell | Defensive Back |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2001 | R6.25 | Rick Crowell | Linebacker |  Miami Dolphins | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | R5.08 | Clark Haggans | Linebacker |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 2000 | R7.30 | Erik Olson | Defensive Back |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 1999 | R3.12 | Joey Porter | Linebacker | Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 1999 | R3.27 | Anthony Cesario | Offensive Guard | Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 1999 | R5.27 | Jason Craft | Defensive Back | Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 1999 | R6.17 | Darran Hall | Wide Receiver |  Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 1998 | R7.43 | Moses Moreno | Quarterback |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 1997 | R6.09 | Calvin Branch | Running Back | Oakland Raiders | 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one
1st-best Colorado State tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Earle Bruce (1989–1992) · succeeded by Steve Fairchild (2008–2011).
| Season | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||||||||||
| Record | 5-6 | 10-2 | 8-4 | 7-5 | 11-2 | 8-4 | 8-4 | 10-2 | 7-5 | 10-4 | 7-6 | 4-7 | 6-6 | 4-8 | 3-9 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | L bowl | — | W bowl | — | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | — | L bowl | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 69 | 81 | 46 | 30 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 42 | 17 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52.1 | 45.4 | 51.0 | 34.1 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 51.6 | 41.0 | 33.9 | 27.9 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30.8 | 28.1 | 33.3 | |
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 Colorado State
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+20.2 pts at Colorado State · #66 of 1290 · top quarter