Phil Sarboe

Head coach, Washington State, 1945 to 1949

Now

Career arc

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.

2-4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Jeff Cravath.

Rivalry record

2-4

33.3% · 1 rival

One-score games

8-9-3

40.0% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Washington2-433%

The toughest matchup

vs. Jeff Cravath0-3

3 meetings, 1946–1949

’46 L’47 L’49 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

Power Program

0-7 0.0%

National Program

7-18 28.0%

Regional Program

9-1 90.0%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1945-1949) 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.

The NFL pipeline

at least5Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 5 — his 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 5 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1950	R3.33	Estimated
1950	R4.45	Estimated
1950	R7.77	Estimated
1949	R2.17	Estimated
1949	R7.58	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.