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Career arc
Stats
Big games
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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.
1-2 against his rivals at East Carolina. Winless in 3 tries against Lou Holtz.
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.
1-1 against his rivals at Virginia.
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 3 tries against Dick Sheridan.
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.
2-3 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Bill Dooley.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
East Carolina→
Virginia1974Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (1979-1981) 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
11th-best Marshall tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Followed Frank Ellwood (1975–1978) · succeeded by Bob Pruett (1997–2004).
Followed Don Lawrence (1971–1973) · succeeded by Dick Bestwick (1976–1981).
1 NFL Draft pick: Tom Glassic (1976)
12th-best East Carolina tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Mike McGee (1970) · succeeded by Pat Dye (1974–1979).
2 NFL Draft picks: Carl Summerell (1974), Carlester Crumpler (1974)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+7.9 pts at East Carolina · #277 of 1290 · top quarter