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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 2-0
1970Rose BowlW 27-17
1971Rose BowlW 13-12Stats
Big games
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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.
3-1 against his rivals at Utah State. Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
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.
8-3 against his rivals at Stanford. Just 2-7 against John McKay.
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.
Winless in 3 tries against Jim Lambright.
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.
11-4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Jim Lambright.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Utah State→
Stanford1963Players 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 (1993-1996) 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.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
8th-best San José State tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Ron Turner (1992) · succeeded by Dave Baldwin (1997–2000).
5th-best Stanford tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Jack Curtice (1958–1962) · succeeded by Jack Christiansen (1972–1976).
| Season | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | Trend |
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| Record | 3-7 | 5-5 | 6-3-1 | 5-5 | 5-5 | 6-3-1 | 7-2-1 | 9-3 | 9-3 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | W bowl | W bowl | |
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3rd-best Utah State tenure of 22 by the numbers.
Followed Everett Faunce (1955–1958) · succeeded by Tony Knap (1963–1966).
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.
2nd all-time at Stanford
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+25.7 pts at Utah State · #38 of 1290 · top quarter