Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 5-2
2001Orange BowlL 23-56
2002Peach BowlW 30-3
2003Gator BowlW 41-7
2006Champs Sports BowlW 24-7
2007Emerald BowlL 14-21
2008Humanitarian BowlW 42-35
2010Military BowlW 51-20
Report card
Above the median offense — 51st percentile.
Maryland, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
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.
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.
1-1 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Frank Beamer.
Signature games
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
Called about what the situation called for.
3,865 run and pass snaps at Maryland, 2004–2010, 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. Play-by-play starts in 2004, so his earlier seasons there aren’t in it.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2010 roster arrived on his watch — 113 of 113 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2001-2010) 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: 34 of 107 signees (32%) across his 2002–2010 classes on record (his tenure ran 2001–2010), drawn from 17 states in all. Next: VA (11).
60% of his signees come from MD and its 5 border states (VA 11, PA 10, DC 7, DE 1, WV 1).
Off this map: 6 signees to the west (CA 2, TX 2, others) and 6 to the south (FL 6).
- median hometown distance
- 41 mi
- within 100 mi
- 55%
- within 500 mi
- 91%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 2%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | R2.26 | Torrey Smith | Wide Receiver |  Baltimore Ravens | Estimated |
| 2011 | R7.18 | Da'Rel Scott | Running Back |  New York Giants | Estimated |
| 2010 | R4.08 | Bruce Campbell | Offensive Tackle |  Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2010 | R5.14 | Nolan Carroll | Cornerback |  Miami Dolphins | Estimated |
| 2009 | R1.07 | Darrius Heyward-Bey | Wide Receiver | Oakland Raiders | Estimated |
| 2009 | R3.16 | Kevin Barnes | Cornerback |  Washington Redskins | Estimated |
| 2009 | R7.21 | Moise Fokou | Outside Linebacker |  Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2009 | R7.27 | Jaimie Thomas | Offensive Guard |  Indianapolis Colts | Estimated |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | R7.46 | Dan Gronkowski | Tight End |  Detroit Lions | Estimated |
| 2008 | R4.16 | Dre Moore | Defensive Tackle |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2007 | R2.23 | Josh Wilson | Defensive Back |  Seattle Seahawks | Estimated |
| 2007 | R4.02 | Adam Podlesh | Punter |  Jacksonville Jaguars | Estimated |
| 2006 | R1.06 | Vernon Davis | Tight End |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2006 | R2.02 | D'Qwell Jackson | Linebacker |  Cleveland Browns | Estimated |
| 2006 | R7.24 | Gerrick McPhearson | Defensive Back | New York Giants | Estimated |
| 2005 | R1.12 | Shawne Merriman | Linebacker |  San Diego Chargers | Estimated |
| 2005 | R3.33 | Domonique Foxworth | Defensive Back |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2004 | R2.24 | Madieu Williams | Defensive Back |  Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
| 2004 | R3.08 | Randy Starks | Defensive Tackle |  Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2004 | R4.16 | Leon Joe | Linebacker |  Chicago Bears | Estimated |
| 2004 | R7.19 | Jeff Dugan | Tight End |  Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| 2004 | R7.41 | Bruce Perry | Running Back | Philadelphia Eagles | Estimated |
| 2003 | R2.08 | E.J. Henderson | Linebacker | Minnesota Vikings | Estimated |
| 2002 | R3.11 | Melvin Fowler Jr. | Center |  Cleveland Browns | Estimated |
| 2002 | R3.18 | Charles Hill | Defensive Tackle |  Houston Texans | Estimated |
| 2002 | R7.41 | Matt Murphy | Tight End |  Detroit Lions | 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.
Builder meaningfully raised a program that wasn't one
7th-best Maryland tenure of 21 by the numbers.
Followed Ron Vanderlinden (1997–2000) · succeeded by Randy Edsall (2011–2015).
| Season | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||||
| Record | 10-2 | 11-3 | 10-3 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 9-4 | 6-7 | 8-5 | 2-10 | 9-4 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | — | W bowl | L bowl | W bowl | — | W bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||||
| Offense | — | — | — | 3 | 62 | 49 | 53 | 44 | 30 | 32 | |
| Defense | — | — | — | 75 | 49 | 7 | 60 | 47 | 67 | 82 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | 30.6 | 36.8 | 33.1 | 31.1 | 40.2 | 43.7 | 40.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | 23.0 | 41.3 | 33.1 | 30.4 | 41.8 | 39.1 | 46.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | 34.6 | 25.6 | 14.6 | 23.4 | 25.5 | 33.3 | 35.4 | |
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
2nd all-time at Maryland
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+15.1 pts at Maryland · #117 of 1290 · top quarter