Turner Gill
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2008International BowlL 20-38
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
3-1 against his rivals at Buffalo. Just 1-2 against Gregg Brandon.
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.
0-4 against his rivals at Kansas.
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.
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.
1-0 against his rivals at Liberty.
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.
4-5 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Gary Pinkel.
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.
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.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for.
929 run and pass snaps at Liberty, 2018–2018, 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.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Liberty class of his own finished #131 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Followed him here
Buffalo→
Kansas2010Players 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 2018 roster arrived on his watch — 100 of 100 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2018-2018) 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: 3 of 10 signees (30%) across his 2018–2018 tenure, drawn from 5 states in all. Next: GA (2).
70% of his signees come from AL and its 4 border states (GA 2, TN 2).
- median hometown distance
- 431 mi
- within 100 mi
- 12%
- within 500 mi
- 55%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 22%
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
Succeeded by Hugh Freeze (2019–2022).
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Followed Mark Mangino (2002–2009) · succeeded by Charlie Weis (2012–2014).
| Season | 2010 | 2011 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 3-9 | 2-10 | |
| Postseason | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 8 | 10 | |
| Defense | 8 | 13 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 39.2 | 26.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 28.2 | 15.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 42.9 | 37.5 | |
9th-best Buffalo tenure of 11 by the numbers.
Followed Jim Hofher (2001–2005) · succeeded by Jeff Quinn (2010–2014).
| Season | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 2-10 | 5-7 | 8-6 | 5-7 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 4 | 50 | 62 | 44 | |
| Defense | 23 | 30 | 5 | 55 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 39.6 | 46.4 | 46.2 | 39.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 40.2 | 59.0 | 45.0 | 46.1 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 29.0 | 27.3 | 34.0 | 38.7 | |
3 NFL Draft picks: Trevor Scott (2008), Jamey Richard (2008), James Starks (2010)
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.
tied for 2nd all-time at Buffalo
Was he good?
Every angle here comes back inconclusive — not enough separation from zero to call it either way.
+5.5 pts at Buffalo · #368 of 1290 · middle half