Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 5-4
Colorado’95W’96W’98WWashington’99L’00W’01L’02LUCLA’09W’11L
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1995Cotton Bowl ClassicW 38-6
1996Holiday BowlW 33-21
1998Aloha BowlW 51-43Washington
1999Holiday BowlL 20-24
2000Rose BowlW 34-24
2001Holiday BowlL 43-47
2002Sun BowlL 24-34UCLA
2009EagleBank BowlW 30-21
2011Kraft Fight Hunger BowlL 14-20
Report card
Above the median offense — 53rd percentile.
UCLA, 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
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.
4-4 against his rivals at Colorado. Winless in 3 tries against Tom Osborne.
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.
6-1 against his rivals at Washington. Just 1-3 against Bob Toledo.
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.
0-4 against his rivals at UCLA. Winless in 3 tries against Chip Kelly.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
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.
10-9 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Jeff Tedford.
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.
2,324 run and pass snaps at UCLA, 2008–2011, 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.
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
Four numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Colorado→
Washington1999Players 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
of his 2011 roster arrived on his watch — 119 of 119 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2008-2011) 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: 46 of 66 signees (70%) across his 2008–2011 tenure, drawn from 12 states in all. Next: TN (5).
77% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (AZ 2, NV 2, OR 1).
Off this map: 1 signee to the east (MA).
- median hometown distance
- 40 mi
- within 100 mi
- 60%
- within 500 mi
- 83%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 12%
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.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | R2.07 | Akeem Ayers | Outside Linebacker |  Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2011 | R2.13 | Rahim Moore | Safety |  Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2011 | R6.19 | David Carter | Defensive Tackle |  Arizona Cardinals | Estimated |
| 2010 | R2.03 | Brian Price | Defensive Tackle |  Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Estimated |
| 2010 | R4.06 | Alterraun Verner | Cornerback | Tennessee Titans | Estimated |
| 2010 | R7.12 | Terrence Austin | Wide Receiver |  Washington Redskins | 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.
Inheritor inherited a power and neither built it higher nor let it collapse · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
16th-best UCLA tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Karl Dorrell (2003–2007) · succeeded by Jim Mora (2012–2017).
| Season | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 4-8 | 7-6 | 4-8 | 6-6 | |
| Postseason | — | W bowl | — | L bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 8 | 28 | 20 | 50 | |
| Defense | 93 | 83 | 26 | 35 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 49.1 | 44.1 | 33.3 | 28.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 46.7 | 47.3 | 23.8 | 27.2 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 7.4 | 16.7 | 16.7 | 36.7 | |
3rd-best Washington tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Lambright (1993–1998) · succeeded by Keith Gilbertson (2003–2004).
| Season | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 7-5 | 11-1 | 8-4 | 7-6 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | W bowl | L bowl | L bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | |
10 NFL Draft picks: Jabari Issa (2000), Lester Towns (2000), Marques Tuiasosopo (2001), Elliot Silvers (2001), Jeremiah Pharms (2001), Hakim Akbar (2001), Chad Ward (2001), Jerramy Stevens (2002) + 2 more
1st-best Colorado tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Bill McCartney (1982–1994) · succeeded by Gary Barnett (1999–2005).
| Season | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 10-2 | 10-2 | 5-6 | 8-4 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | W bowl | — | W bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | — | — | — | — | |
| Defense | — | — | — | — | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | |
15 NFL Draft picks: Chris Naeole (1997), Rae Carruth (1997), Greg Jones (1997), Matt Russell (1997), Steve Rosga (1997), Koy Detmer (1997), Ryan Sutter (1998), Ron Merkerson (1998) + 7 more
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-0.4 pts at Washington · #709 of 1290 · middle half