Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-0
2016Famous Idaho Potato BowlW 61-50
Coordinator years
Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 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.
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from our coordinator career records; head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from the staff assignments record. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.
Report card
Offense carries it: 58th percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 15th.
Idaho, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
Winless in 4 tries against Scott Satterfield.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Signature games
These losses tie at the model's current max -- an editorial pick among a real tie, not a clean ranking.
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Passed more than the situation called for under Cinkovich.
3,825 run and pass snaps at Idaho, 2013–2017, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
This coach's entire tenure (2013-2017) 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: 8 of 21 signees (38%) across his 2013–2013 classes on record (his tenure ran 2013–2017), drawn from 8 states in all. Next: WA (5).
43% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 1).
Off this map: 2 signees to the east (MI, NC).
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.
News
No outlet on our list has written about him by name yet. His record is on Career.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
5th-best Idaho tenure of 7 by the numbers.
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||
| Record | 1-11 | 1-10 | 4-8 | 9-4 | 4-8 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | W bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||||
| OC | — | Kris Cinkovich | Kris Cinkovich | Kris Cinkovich | Kris Cinkovich | |
| DC | — | Ronnie Lee | Mike Breske | Mike Breske | Mike Breske | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||
| Offense | 19 | 36 | 43 | 57 | 16 | |
| Defense | 36 | 10 | 5 | 39 | 60 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 43.3 | 46.2 | 52.0 | 43.8 | 45.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 38.4 | 32.4 | 31.1 | 33.1 | 50.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 36.4 | 53.8 | 25.7 | 19.5 | 40.0 | |
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-0.1 pts at Idaho · #689 of 1290 · middle half