Keith Gilbertson
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
1993Alamo BowlW 37-3
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.
2-2 against his rivals at California. Winless in 3 tries against John Robinson.
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.
2-2 against his rivals at Washington.
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.
4-4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against John Robinson.
Signature games
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.
626 run and pass snaps at Washington, 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
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2004 roster arrived on his watch — 32 of 32 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2003-2004) 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: 9 of 22 signees (41%) across his 2003–2004 tenure, drawn from 6 states in all. Next: WA (9).
55% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 1, NV 1, OR 1).
Off this map: 1 signee to the east (KS).
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. 1 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | R2.20 | Khalif Barnes | Offensive Tackle |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2005 | R6.31 | Derrick Johnson | Defensive Back |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2004 | R1.09 | Reggie Williams | Wide Receiver | Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2004 | R2.15 | Terry Johnson | Defensive Tackle |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2004 | R3.16 | Marquis Cooper | Linebacker |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2004 | R7.16 | Cody Pickett | Quarterback |  San Francisco 49ers | 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
Followed Rick Neuheisel (1999–2002) · succeeded by Tyrone Willingham (2005–2008).
| Season | 2003 | 2004 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 6-6 | 1-10 | |
| Postseason | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | — | 0 | |
| Defense | — | 77 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | — | 36.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | 42.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 36.0 | |
6th-best California tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Bruce Snyder (1987–1991) · succeeded by Steve Mariucci (1996).
| Season | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 4-7 | 9-4 | 4-7 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | — | 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: Sean Dawkins (1993), Russell White (1993), Chidi Ahanotu (1993), Todd Steussie (1994), Eric Mahlum (1994), Doug Brien (1994), Eric Zomalt (1994), Issac Booth (1994) + 3 more
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+4.2 pts at California · #425 of 1290 · middle half