Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 3-0
1995Independence BowlW 45-26
1996Peach BowlW 10-7
1997Independence BowlW 27-9
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.
0-4 against his rivals at Vanderbilt. Winless in 4 tries against Gene Stallings.
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.
8-9 against his rivals at LSU. Just 1-4 against Steve Spurrier.
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 Indiana. Winless in 3 tries against Jim Tressel.
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.
8-16 against his rivals. Winless in 6 tries against Gene Stallings.
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.
525 run and pass snaps at Indiana, 2004–2004, 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.
Building the roster
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
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LSU1995Players 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
of his 2004 roster arrived on his watch — 24 of 24 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2002-2004) 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: 10 of 42 signees (24%) across his 2002–2004 tenure, drawn from 16 states in all. Next: IL (6).
55% of his signees come from IN and its 4 border states (IL 6, OH 5, KY 2).
Off this map: 3 signees to the west (AZ 2, CO).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | R3.04 | Courtney Roby | Wide Receiver |  Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2003 | R7.18 | Gibran Hamdan | Quarterback |  Washington Redskins | 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
12th-best Indiana tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Cam Cameron (1997–2001) · succeeded by Terry Hoeppner (2005–2006).
| Season | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 3-9 | 2-10 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | — | — | 46 | |
| Defense | — | — | 43 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 26.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 30.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 40.9 | |
16th-best LSU tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Curley Hallman (1991–1994) · succeeded by Nick Saban (2000–2004).
| Season | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 7-4-1 | 10-2 | 9-3 | 4-7 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | W bowl | 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 | — | — | — | — | — | |
11 NFL Draft picks: David LaFleur (1997), Denard Walker (1997), Nicky Savoie (1997), Alan Faneca (1998), Kenny Mixon (1998), Chuck Wiley (1998), Anthony McFarland (1999), Kevin Faulk (1999) + 3 more
19th-best Vanderbilt tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Watson Brown (1986–1990) · succeeded by Ron Dowhower (1995–1996).
1 NFL Draft pick: Corey Harris (1992)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+8.1 pts at LSU · #267 of 1290 · top quarter