The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Mike DuBose

Followed Gene Stallings. Mike DuBose inherited a Blue Blood Alabama and won with it.

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1997–2000 · 1 stint

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 Blue Blood in his 1st career season — faster than 59% of the 100 FBS coaches who have ever reached Blue Blood (rank #1 of 100 by seasons-to-arrival).

Alabama, 4 seasons

−4.5

Blue Blood → Blue Blood.

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.

4–8 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Phillip Fulmer.

Rivalry record

4–8

33.3% · 3 rivals

One-score games

7–10

41.2% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

2–5

28.6%

Rivalry ledger

Tennessee0–40%

LSU2–250%

Auburn2–250%

The toughest matchup

vs. Phillip Fulmer0–4

4 meetings, 1997–2000

’97 L’98 L’99 L’00 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

2–5 28.6%

Power Program

5–7 41.7%

National Program

9–7 56.2%

Regional Program

7–4 63.6%

Coaching career

1997–2000

Alabamainheritor

Blue Blood → Blue Blood

Mike DuBose inherited a Blue Blood Alabama and won with it.

5th-best Alabama tenure of 12 by the numbers.

Followed Gene Stallings (1990–1996) · succeeded by Dennis Franchione (2001–2002).

14 NFL Draft picks: Dwayne Rudd (1997), Patrick Hape (1997), Ralph Staten (1997), Rod Rutledge (1998), Michael Myers (1998), DeShea Townsend (1998), Curtis Alexander (1998), Fernando Bryant (1999) + 6 more

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