Bobby Wilder
Bobby Wilder held Old Dominion at Regional Program I for 6 seasons.
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.
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).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
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. Just 1–5 against Doc Holliday.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
1st-best Old Dominion tenure of 2 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Succeeded by Ricky Rahne (2020–2026).
| Season | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 6–6 | 5–7 | 10–3 | 5–7 | 4–8 | 1–11 | |
| Postseason | — | — | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #77 | #110 | #120 | #124 | #126 | #115 | |
| Style — pass rate | |||||||
| Pass rate | 55.7 | 51.9 | 42.8 | 43.2 | 53.0 | 46.8 | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | Brian Scott | Brian Scott | Brian Scott | Brian Scott | Brian Scott | Brian Scott | |
| DC | Rich Nagy | Rich Nagy | Rich Nagy | Rich Nagy | Rich Nagy | David Blackwell / Grady Brown | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 78 | 32 | 74 | 12 | 32 | 3 | |
| Defense | 8 | 30 | 46 | 34 | 40 | 41 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 50.2 | 49.1 | 39.1 | 38.2 | 52.4 | 46.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 53.1 | 42.9 | 40.9 | 27.9 | 42.0 | 33.8 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 69.0 | 35.1 | 43.9 | 35.7 | 39.1 | 32.6 | |
2 NFL Draft picks: Oshane Ximines (2019), Travis Fulgham (2019)