Stan Parrish
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2008GMAC BowlL 13-45
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.
1-1 against his rivals at Kansas State. Winless in 3 tries against Barry Switzer.
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.
0-2 against his rivals at Ball State.
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.
1-3 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Barry Switzer.
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
Called about what the situation called for.
95 run and pass snaps at Eastern Michigan, 2013–2013, 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
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2013 roster arrived on his watch — 100 of 101 players. The other 1 is a holdover from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2013-2013) 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: 6 of 20 signees (30%) across his 2013–2013 tenure, drawn from 8 states in all. Next: CA (3).
60% of his signees come from IN and its 4 border states (MI 3, OH 2, IL 1).
- median hometown distance
- 203 mi
- within 100 mi
- 33%
- within 500 mi
- 82%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 10%
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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
Followed Ron English (2009–2013) · succeeded by Chris Creighton (2014–now).
6th-best Ball State tenure of 10 by the numbers.
Followed Brady Hoke (2003–2008) · succeeded by Pete Lembo (2011–2015).
| Season | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 0-1 | 2-10 | 4-8 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 83 | 11 | 2 | |
| Defense | 27 | 55 | 52 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 40.6 | 33.2 | 36.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 32.8 | 42.5 | 36.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 16.7 | 30.8 | 21.2 | |
2 NFL Draft picks: Robert Brewster (2009), Nate Davis (2009)
15th-best Kansas State tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Lee Moon (1985) · succeeded by Bill Snyder (1989–2005).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+1.5 pts at Ball State · #579 of 1290 · middle half