Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 2-0
1993Las Vegas BowlW 42-33Navy
1996Aloha BowlW 42-38
Report card
Below the median offense — 33rd percentile.
UL Monroe, 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.
1-2 against his rivals at Utah State. Winless in 3 tries against Ron McBride.
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.
4-10 against his rivals at Navy. Winless in 5 tries against Bob Davie.
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.
7-7 against his rivals at UL Monroe. Winless in 4 tries against Houston Nutt.
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.
12-19 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Bob Davie.
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.
1,945 run and pass snaps at UL Monroe, 2004–2009, 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. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.
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.
Followed him here
Utah State→
Navy1995Players 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
This coach's entire tenure (2003-2009) 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.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 73 of 164 signees (45%) across his 2003–2009 tenure, drawn from 12 states in all. Next: TX (47).
87% of his signees come from LA and its 3 border states (TX 47, MS 21, AR 1).
Off this map: 5 signees to the east (FL 4, NC), 3 to the north (KS, KY, others) and 1 to the west (CA).
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 can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R5.30 | Kevin Payne | Defensive Back |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2005 | R6.07 | Chris Harris | Defensive Back | Chicago Bears | 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 UL Monroe tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Followed Mike Collins (2002) · succeeded by Todd Berry (2010–2015).
| Season | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 1-11 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 4-8 | 6-6 | 4-8 | 6-6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | — | 56 | 2 | 29 | 55 | 45 | 35 | |
| Defense | — | 16 | 89 | 65 | 74 | 19 | 66 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | 39.0 | 52.9 | 60.4 | 33.8 | 40.7 | 29.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | 46.7 | — | 30.0 | 28.3 | 40.5 | 42.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | 29.6 | 26.9 | 17.9 | |
17th-best Navy tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed George Chaump (1990–1994) · succeeded by Paul Johnson (2002–2007).
| Season | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 5-6 | 9-3 | 7-4 | 3-8 | 5-7 | 1-10 | 0-7 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
20th-best Utah State tenure of 22 by the numbers.
Followed Chuck Shelton (1986–1991) · succeeded by John Smith (1995–1997).
| Season | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 5-6 | 7-5 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | |
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 UL Monroe
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+7.9 pts at Navy · #277 of 1290 · top quarter