Chip Lindsey
Offensive coordinator across 7 programs, 7 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
Chip Lindsey
Followed Neal Brown. Chip Lindsey slid Troy from Regional Program I to Regional Program II in 3 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.
2–0 against his rivals.
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
6th-best Troy tenure of 7 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Followed Neal Brown (2015–2018) · succeeded by Jon Sumrall (2022–2023).
| Season | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 5–7 | 5–6 | 5–6 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #80 | #84 | #103 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||
| Pass rate | 55.0 | 58.2 | 53.4 | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Ryan Pugh | Ryan Pugh | Luke Meadows | |
| DC | Brandon Hall | Brandon Hall | Brandon Hall | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 62 | 47 | 20 | |
| Defense | 22 | 53 | 54 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 57.0 | 55.4 | 48.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 54.9 | 47.0 | 48.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 35.5 | 34.3 | 43.2 | |
Barely touches the portal — recruits and develops his own.
Typical size for position, once adjusted for position mix.
A typical class-year mix of incoming transfers.