Now
Career arc
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.
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.
2-1 against his rivals at Baylor.
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.
0-3 against his rivals at Baylor.
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 1-6 against Mike Brumbelow.
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.
2-4 against his rivals. Just 1-6 against Mike Brumbelow.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Hardin Simmons→
Baylor1941Baylor→
West Texas1947Players 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 (1947-1957) 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
3rd-best West Texas tenure of 4 by the numbers.
10th-best Baylor tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Morley Jennings (1936–1940) · succeeded by Bob Woodruff (1947–1949).
Succeeded by Warren Woodson (1941–1942).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+4.9 pts at West Texas · #394 of 1290 · middle half