The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Neil Callaway

Followed Watson Brown. Neil Callaway held UAB at Regional Program III for 5 seasons.

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2007–2011 · 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 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).

UAB, 5 seasons

−6.0

Regional Program III → Regional Program IV.

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 Skip Holtz.

One-score games

8–13

38.1% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–2

0.0%

The toughest matchup

vs. Skip Holtz0–3

3 meetings, 2007–2009

’07 L’08 L’09 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-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

0–2 0.0%

Power Program

0–2 0.0%

National Program

5–10 33.3%

Regional Program

11–28 28.2%

Coaching career

2007–2011

UABcaretaker

Regional Program III → Regional Program III

Neil Callaway held UAB at Regional Program III for 5 seasons.

6th-best UAB tenure of 7 by the numbers.

Followed Watson Brown (1996–2006) · succeeded by Garrick McGee (2012–2013).

Where the roster comes from, by position

Grows K from high school

100%

#52 of 56 stints

Grows Tight end from high school

100%

#164 of 188 stints

2 NFL Draft picks: Joe Webb (2010), Matt Mccants (2012)

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