Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 1-4
1995Liberty BowlL 13-19
1996Sun BowlW 38-0
1999Rose BowlL 9-17
2001Seattle BowlL 14-24
Notre Dame
2002Gator BowlL 6-28
Report card
Below the median offense — 29th percentile.
Washington, 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.
10-2 against his rivals at Stanford. Winless in 3 tries against Barry Alvarez.
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.
5-4 against his rivals at Notre Dame. Winless in 3 tries against Pete Carroll.
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.
1-7 against his rivals at Washington. Winless in 4 tries against Mike Bellotti.
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.
16-13 against his rivals. Just 1-5 against Mike Riley.
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.
2,048 run and pass snaps at Washington, 2005–2008, 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
Stanford→
Notre Dame2002Notre Dame→
Washington2005Players 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 2008 roster arrived on his watch — 32 of 32 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2005-2008) 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: 30 of 57 signees (53%) across his 2005–2008 tenure, drawn from 11 states in all. Next: WA (16).
60% of his signees come from CA and its 3 border states (OR 2, AZ 1, NV 1).
Off this map: 4 signees to the east (CO 2, NE, others) and 1 to the west (HI).
- median hometown distance
- 156 mi
- within 100 mi
- 39%
- within 500 mi
- 52%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 13%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | R4.04 | Isaiah Stanback | Quarterback |  Dallas Cowboys | Estimated |
| 2007 | R4.27 | Dashon Goldson | Defensive Back |  San Francisco 49ers | Estimated |
| 2006 | R4.17 | Joe Toledo | Offensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins | 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
13th-best Washington tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Keith Gilbertson (2003–2004) · succeeded by Steve Sarkisian (2009–2013).
| Season | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 2-9 | 5-7 | 4-9 | 0-12 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 39 | 6 | 35 | 7 | |
| Defense | 40 | 25 | 4 | 9 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 38.2 | 37.5 | 32.0 | 37.0 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 28.2 | 37.5 | 20.0 | 34.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 25.9 | 17.9 | 32.6 | 11.5 | |
13th-best Notre Dame tenure of 15 by the numbers.
Followed Bob Davie (1997–2001) · succeeded by Charlie Weis (2005–2009).
| Season | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 10-3 | 5-7 | 6-5 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | — | — | 61 | |
| Defense | — | — | 13 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | 36.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | 30.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | 38.9 | |
14 NFL Draft picks: Jeff Faine (2003), Jordan Black (2003), Sean Mahan (2003), Shane Walton (2003), Gerome Sapp (2003), Arnaz Battle (2003), Brennan Curtin (2003), Julius Jones (2004) + 6 more
12th-best Stanford tenure of 20 by the numbers.
Followed Bill Walsh (1992–1994) · succeeded by Buddy Teevens (2002–2004).
| Season | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 7-4-1 | 7-5 | 5-6 | 3-8 | 8-4 | 5-6 | 9-3 | |
| 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
19 NFL Draft picks: Greg Clark (1997), Brad Badger (1997), Brian Manning (1997), Nathan Parks (1997), Kailee Wong (1998), Jon Ritchie (1998), Chris Draft (1998), Carl Hansen (1998) + 11 more
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.
3rd all-time at Stanford
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
-2.8 pts at Stanford · #870 of 1290 · middle half