The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Frank Ellwood

Followed Jack Lengyel. Frank Ellwood held Marshall at Regional Program V for 4 seasons.

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1975–1978 · 1 stint

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).

Marshall, 4 seasons

−0.6

Regional Program V → Regional Program VI.

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.

Just 1–3 against Elliot Uzelac.

One-score games

2–4

33.3% · margin ≤8

The toughest matchup

vs. Elliot Uzelac1–3

4 meetings, 1975–1978

’75 W’76 L’77 L’78 L

25% 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

Power Program

1–2 33.3%

National Program

0–6 0.0%

Regional Program

3–17 15.0%

Coaching career

1975–1978

Marshallcaretaker

Regional Program V → Regional Program V

Frank Ellwood held Marshall at Regional Program V for 4 seasons.

10th-best Marshall tenure of 11 by the numbers.

Followed Jack Lengyel (1971–1974) · succeeded by Sonny Randle (1979–1981).

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