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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-2
1995Outback BowlL 14-43
1996Independence BowlW 32-29
1997Peach BowlW 21-17
Akron
2015Famous Idaho Potato BowlW 23-21
2017Boca Raton BowlL 3-50
Report card
Offense carries it: 25th percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 8th.
UL Monroe, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
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.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
6-5 against his rivals at Auburn. Just 2-4 against Steve Spurrier.
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.
7-5 against his rivals at Akron. Just 1-6 against Frank Solich.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
1-5 against his rivals at UL Monroe. Winless in 3 tries against Butch Jones.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
14-15 against his rivals. Just 1-6 against Frank Solich.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Ran more than the situation called for under Rodriguez.
2,299 run and pass snaps at UL Monroe, 2021–2023, 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.
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
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 2 ranked UL Monroe classes of his own have averaged #126 nationally — best #125, worst #128.
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UL MonroeAcross every program: 3 ranked classes of his own, averaging #126 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleTransition — he was hired mid-cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2023 roster arrived on his watch — 109 of 116 players. The other 7 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 9% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2021–2023Counting players who have since left: 10% of the 179 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his UL Monroe rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2021–2023). In the three seasons before he arrived, UL Monroe’s line averaged 4 lb heavier than the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 16 of 50 signees (32%) across his 2021–2023 tenure, drawn from 11 states in all. Next: FL (7).
42% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (LA 4, AR 1).
- median hometown distance
- 269 mi
- within 100 mi
- 21%
- within 500 mi
- 80%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 3%
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.
News
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Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
10th-best UL Monroe tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Followed Matt Viator (2016–2020) · succeeded by Bryant Vincent (2024–now).
| Season | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 4-8 | 4-8 | 2-10 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Rich Rodriguez | Matt Kubik | Matt Kubik | |
| DC | Zac Alley | Vic Koenning | Vic Koenning | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 15 | 19 | 3 | |
| Defense | 33 | 24 | 21 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 30.7 | 48.0 | 46.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 33.9 | 44.0 | 41.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 28.2 | 37.0 | 41.0 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
5th-best Akron tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Rob Ianello (2010–2011) · succeeded by Tom Arth (2019–2021).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 1-11 | 5-7 | 5-7 | 8-5 | 5-7 | 7-7 | 4-8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | W bowl | — | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | — | — | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | A. J. Milwee | |
| DC | — | — | Chuck Amato | Chuck Amato | Chuck Amato | Chuck Amato | Todd Stroud | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | 44 | 16 | 11 | 21 | 26 | 11 | 5 | |
| Defense | 42 | 73 | 71 | 82 | 50 | 35 | 73 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 53.7 | 46.1 | 65.1 | 42.6 | 57.0 | 51.2 | 52.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 59.6 | 35.2 | 48.6 | 29.6 | 40.0 | 30.4 | 50.0 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 33.3 | 32.5 | 25.6 | 24.4 | 40.6 | 29.0 | 18.9 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
2 NFL Draft picks: Jatavis Brown (2016), Ulysees Gilbert III (2019)
7th-best Auburn tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Pat Dye (1981–1992) · succeeded by Tommy Tuberville (1999–2008).
| Season | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 11-0 | 9-1-1 | 8-4 | 8-4 | 10-3 | 1-5 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
13 NFL Draft picks: Wayne Gandy (1994), James Bostic (1994), Anthony Redmon (1994), Frank Sanders (1995), Mike Pelton (1995), Gary Walker (1995), Mark Smith (1997), Takeo Spikes (1998) + 5 more
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.
3rd all-time at Akron
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+3.4 pts at Akron · #474 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.