Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-2
1998Music City BowlL 7-38
1999Orange BowlL 34-35
Stats
Big games
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.
Building the roster
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (1997-2000) 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: 3 of 8 signees (38%) across his 2000–2000 classes on record (his tenure ran 1997–2000), drawn from 6 states in all. Next: AR (1).
75% of his signees come from AL and its 4 border states (FL 1, GA 1, TN 1).
Off this map: 1 signee to the north (OH).
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. 3 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | R2.25 | Tony Dixon | Defensive Back |  Dallas Cowboys | Estimated |
| 2001 | R3.19 | Kenny Smith | Defensive Tackle |  New Orleans Saints | Estimated |
| 2001 | R5.25 | Shawn Draper | Offensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins | Estimated |
| 2000 | R1.03 | Chris Samuels | Offensive Tackle |  Washington Redskins | Estimated |
| 2000 | R1.19 | Shaun Alexander | Running Back |  Seattle Seahawks | Estimated |
| 2000 | R2.11 | Cornelius Griffin | Defensive Tackle |  New York Giants | Estimated |
| 1999 | R1.26 | Fernando Bryant | Defensive Back |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 1998 | R2.24 | Rod Rutledge | Tight End |  New England Patriots | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | R4.08 | Michael Myers | Defensive End | Dallas Cowboys | Estimated |
| 1998 | R4.25 | DeShea Townsend | Defensive Back |  Pittsburgh Steelers | Estimated |
| 1998 | R4.30 | Curtis Alexander | Running Back |  Denver Broncos | 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.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse
5th-best Alabama tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed Gene Stallings (1990–1996) · succeeded by Dennis Franchione (2001–2002).
| Season | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 4-7 | 7-5 | 10-3 | 3-8 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | L 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 | — | — | — | — | |
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-4.5 pts at Alabama · #978 of 1290 · bottom quarter