Now
Career arc
Report card
Offense carries it: 26th percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 11th.
Akron, 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
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.
0-5 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Chuck Martin.
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.
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.
1,659 run and pass snaps at Akron, 2019–2021, 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 Akron classes of his own have averaged #121 nationally — best #118, worst #124.
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 2021 roster arrived on his watch — 106 of 120 players. The other 14 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 4% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2019–2021Counting players who have since left: 4% of the 28 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
“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 Akron rosters have averaged 4 lb lighter than the FBS average (2019–2021) — lighter than 80% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Akron’s line averaged 5 lb lighter 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: 26 of 70 signees (37%) across his 2019–2021 tenure, drawn from 15 states in all. Next: GA (14).
50% of his signees come from OH and its 5 border states (PA 6, MI 2, KY 1).
Off this map: 5 signees to the west (IA 2, CA, others), 3 to the south (FL 3) and 1 to the east (NH).
- median hometown distance
- 114 mi
- within 100 mi
- 43%
- within 500 mi
- 73%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 7%
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
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
7th-best Akron tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Terry Bowden (2012–2018) · succeeded by Oscar Rodriguez (2021).
| Season | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 0-12 | 1-5 | 2-7 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Tommy Zagorski | Tommy Zagorski / Bryan Gasser | Tommy Zagorski | |
| DC | Matt Feeney | Matt Feeney | Matt Feeney | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 0 | 3 | 22 | |
| Defense | 29 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 53.1 | 38.3 | 43.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 58.8 | 55.2 | 48.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 34.8 | 26.7 | 60.0 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
-4.0 pts at Akron · #948 of 1290 · middle half