Now
Career arc
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.
Winless in 5 tries against John Bateman.
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.
Just 1-4 against John Anderson.
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.
Just 1-4 against Frank Burns.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Colgate→
Holy Cross1976Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (1976-1980) 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
4th-best Holy Cross tenure of 4 by the numbers.
Followed Edward Doherty (1971–1975).
4th-best Colgate tenure of 4 by the numbers.
Followed Hal Lahar (1962–1967).
1 NFL Draft pick: Mark van Eeghen (1974)
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+0.6 pts at Holy Cross · #647 of 1290 · middle half