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Bobby Wallace

Followed Ron Dickerson. Bobby Wallace moved Temple from Regional Program V to Regional Program IV in 8 seasons.

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1998–2005 · 1 stint
Temple
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerTEMPLERegional Programthe building-block levelTemple, 1998: 2-9, Regional Program V1998Temple, 1999: 2-9, Regional Program V1999Temple, 2000: 4-7, Regional Program V2000Temple, 2001: 4-7, Regional Program V2001Temple, 2002: 4-8, Regional Program IV2002Temple, 2003: 1-11, Regional Program IV2003Temple, 2004: 2-9, Regional Program IV2004Temple, 2005: 0-11, Regional Program V2005+3.4One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Temple, 8 seasons
+3.4
Regional Program V → Regional Program V.

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 Larry Coker.

One-score games
6–11
35.3% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–7
0.0%
The toughest matchup
vs. Larry Coker0–4
4 meetings, 2001–2005
’01 L’02 L’03 L’05 L
0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–7 0.0%
Power Program
3–20 13.0%
National Program
2–23 8.0%
Regional Program
12–19 38.7%

Coaching career

1998–2005
Templecaretaker
Regional Program V → Regional Program IV
Bobby Wallace moved Temple from Regional Program V to Regional Program IV in 8 seasons.

16th-best Temple tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Followed Ron Dickerson (1993–1997) · succeeded by Al Golden (2006–2010).

5 NFL Draft picks: Mathias Nkwenti (2001), Raheem Brock (2002), Dan Klecko (2003), Dave Yovanovits (2003), Rian Wallace (2005)

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