Marcus Arroyo
Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 3 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.
Marcus Arroyo
Followed Tony Sanchez. Marcus Arroyo moved UNLV from Regional Program V to Regional Program IV in 3 seasons.
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).
Style position and drift
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 258 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2014–2025.
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.
2–3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Brady Hoke.
His own effect, isolated
A statistical estimate of this coach’s contribution to team performance, separated from that season’s roster talent, returning production, and his coordinators — pooled across his whole head-coaching career.
Model fit as of 2026-09-04.
Coaching career
9th-best UNLV tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Followed Tony Sanchez (2015–2019) · succeeded by Barry Odom (2023–2024).
| Season | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 0–6 | 2–10 | 5–7 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Recruiting rank | #77 | #68 | #100 | |
| Style — pass rate | ||||
| Pass rate | 46.8 | 45.6 | 47.3 | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Glenn Thomas | Glenn Thomas | Nick Holz | |
| DC | Peter Hansen | Peter Hansen | Keith Heyward | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 31 | 23 | 42 | |
| Defense | 9 | 23 | 39 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script (2021+ only) | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 42.5 | 37.3 | 46.1 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 50.0 | 36.1 | 40.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 47.1 | 24.2 | 37.8 | |
Barely touches the portal — recruits and develops his own.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.