Bill Cubit
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-3
2006International BowlL 24-27
2008Texas BowlL 14-38
2011Little Caesars Pizza BowlL 32-37
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
8-8 against his rivals at Western Michigan. 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.
0-1 against his rivals at Illinois.
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.
8-9 against his rivals. 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.
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
Called about what the situation called for.
895 run and pass snaps at Illinois, 2015–2015, 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.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2015 roster arrived on his watch — 37 of 118 players. The other 81 are holdovers from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2015-2015) 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 Western Michigan rosters have averaged 8 lb heavier than the FBS average (2010–2012 rosters on record) — heavier than 91% of FBS coaching runs since 2010.
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: 5 of 17 signees (29%) across his 2015–2015 tenure, drawn from 8 states in all. Next: IL (4).
35% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 1).
- median hometown distance
- 205 mi
- within 100 mi
- 14%
- within 500 mi
- 74%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 13%
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. None were his own recruits yet: all 3 roster-verified picks arrived under Tim Beckman (2), Ron Zook (1).
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | R2.13 | Jihad Ward | Defensive End |  Oakland Raiders | recruited under Tim Beckman |
| 2016 | R6.46 | Ted Karras | Offensive Guard |  New England Patriots | recruited under Ron Zook |
| 2016 | R7.24 | Clayton Fejedelem | Safety |  Cincinnati Bengals | recruited under Tim Beckman |
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.
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
Followed Tim Beckman (2012–2014) · succeeded by Lovie Smith (2016–2020).
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
10th-best Western Michigan tenure of 10 by the numbers.
Followed Gary Darnell (1997–2004) · succeeded by P.J. Fleck (2013–2016).
| Season | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 7-4 | 8-5 | 5-7 | 9-4 | 5-7 | 6-6 | 7-6 | 4-8 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | — | L bowl | — | — | L bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||
| Offense | 44 | 38 | 38 | 54 | 27 | 69 | 76 | 54 | |
| Defense | 24 | 84 | 86 | 22 | 22 | 56 | 22 | 62 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 37.7 | 43.1 | 39.9 | 57.9 | 58.3 | 59.6 | 55.7 | 57.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 47.3 | 51.6 | 47.1 | 59.1 | 58.9 | 52.5 | 58.4 | 58.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 29.0 | 37.0 | 38.8 | 46.2 | 33.3 | 53.5 | 41.3 | 24.0 | |
6 NFL Draft picks: Greg Jennings (2006), Tony Scheffler (2006), Louis Delmas (2009), E.J. Biggers (2009), Jordan White (2012), John Potter (2012)
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 Western Michigan
Was he good?
A mixed record — ahead of expectations by some measures here, behind by others. The honest read is that it depends which lens you use.
+2.1 pts at Western Michigan · #545 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.