Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 8-2
Boston College’99L’00W’01W’02W’03W’04W’05WNC State’08L’10W’11W
Show all 10 games
1999Insight.com BowlL 28-62
2000Aloha BowlW 31-17
2001Music City BowlW 20-16
2002Motor City BowlW 51-25
2003San Francisco BowlW 35-21
2004Continental Tire BowlW 37-24
2005MPC Computers BowlW 27-21
NC State
2008PapaJohns.com BowlL 23-29
2010Champs Sports BowlW 23-7
2011Belk BowlW 31-24
Report card
Below the median offense — 45th percentile.
NC 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
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
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 Butch Davis.
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.
7-2 against his rivals at NC State. Winless in 3 tries against Bobby Bowden.
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.
7-2 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Larry Coker.
Signature games
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.
3,581 run and pass snaps at NC State, 2007–2012, 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
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
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NC State2007Players 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
of his 2012 roster arrived on his watch — 106 of 106 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2007-2012) 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.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his NC State rosters have averaged 4 lb heavier than the FBS average (2010–2012 rosters on record).
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: 37 of 105 signees (35%) across his 2007–2012 tenure, drawn from 19 states in all. Next: GA (23).
70% of his signees come from NC and its 4 border states (GA 23, VA 7, SC 6).
Off this map: 10 signees to the west (CA 4, NM 2, others), 3 to the south (FL 3) and 1 to the north (MA).
- median hometown distance
- 158 mi
- within 100 mi
- 39%
- within 500 mi
- 90%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 4%
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. He brought in 1 of them himself. 14 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record).
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | R2.19 | David Amerson | Cornerback |  Washington Redskins | |
| 2013 | R3.11 | Mike Glennon | Quarterback |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2013 | R5.03 | Earl Wolff | Safety |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2012 | R3.06 | T.J. Graham | Wide Receiver |  Buffalo Bills | Estimated |
| 2012 | R5.28 | Terrell Manning | Outside Linebacker |  Green Bay Packers | Estimated |
| 2012 | R7.03 | Audie Cole | Inside Linebacker |  Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| 2012 | R7.18 | J.R. Sweezy | Defensive Tackle |  Seattle Seahawks | Estimated |
| 2012 | R7.32 | Markus Kuhn | Defensive Tackle |  New York Giants | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | R3.03 | Nate Irving | Inside Linebacker |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2010 | R6.36 | Ted Larsen | Center |  New England Patriots | Estimated |
| 2010 | R7.06 | Willie Young | Defensive End |  Detroit Lions | Estimated |
| 2009 | R4.22 | Anthony Hill | Tight End |  Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2009 | R4.29 | Andre Brown | Running Back | New York Giants | Estimated |
| 2008 | R3.19 | DaJuan Morgan | Safety |  Kansas City Chiefs | Estimated |
| 2008 | R5.09 | DeMario Pressley | Defensive Tackle |  New Orleans Saints | 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.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
8th-best NC State tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Chuck Amato (2000–2006) · succeeded by Dave Doeren (2013–now).
| Season | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 5-7 | 6-7 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 8-5 | 7-5 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | — | W bowl | W bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 9 | 60 | 55 | 70 | 10 | 35 | |
| Defense | 65 | 37 | 42 | 55 | 85 | 94 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 46.5 | 44.9 | 41.6 | 54.0 | 39.5 | 53.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 43.2 | 44.4 | 51.0 | 53.7 | 44.2 | 58.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 23.7 | 26.8 | 35.7 | 27.3 | 31.4 | 40.9 | |
7th-best Boston College tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Dan Henning (1994–1996) · succeeded by Jeff Jagodzinski (2007–2008).
| Season | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||
| Record | 4-7 | 4-7 | 8-4 | 7-5 | 8-4 | 9-4 | 8-5 | 9-3 | 9-3 | 9-3 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 52 | 61 | 45 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 78 | 82 | 95 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 44.9 | 44.5 | 45.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 44.7 | 34.1 | 45.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 43.2 | 26.3 | 30.8 | |
21 NFL Draft picks: Todd Pollack (1998), Matt Hasselbeck (1998), Damien Woody (1999), Mike Cloud (1999), Doug Brzezinski (1999), Chris Hovan (2000), Frank Chamberlin (2000), Darnell Alford (2000) + 13 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.
1st all-time at Boston College
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+8.4 pts at Boston College · #258 of 1290 · top quarter