Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-1
2019Bahamas BowlL 9-31
Report card
Offense carries it: 59th percentile offense, bottom-quarter defense at 10th.
Charlotte, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
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.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
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.
0-2 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Tyson Helton.
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.
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
Ran more than the situation called for under Atkins.
2,584 run and pass snaps at Charlotte, 2019–2022, 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.
Building the roster
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 4 ranked Charlotte classes of his own have averaged #105 nationally — best #88, worst #128.
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.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2022 roster arrived on his watch — 121 of 127 players. The other 6 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 7% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2019–2022Counting players who have since left: 12% of the 94 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Charlotte rosters have averaged 7 lb lighter than the FBS average (2019–2022) — lighter than 91% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Charlotte’s line averaged 8 lb lighter than the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 26 of 74 signees (35%) across his 2019–2022 tenure, drawn from 16 states in all. Next: SC (10).
74% of his signees come from NC and its 4 border states (SC 10, GA 8, TN 7, VA 4).
Off this map: 4 signees to the north (CT, MI, others), 3 to the west (TX 2, NV) and 2 to the south (FL 2).
- median hometown distance
- 176 mi
- within 100 mi
- 39%
- within 500 mi
- 82%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 3%
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. Most were someone else’s recruits: 2 arrived under Brad Lambert; 1 he brought in himself.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | R7.39 | Grant DuBose | Wide Receiver |  Green Bay Packers | |
| 2020 | R3.38 | Alex Highsmith | Outside Linebacker |  Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under Brad Lambert |
| 2020 | R4.23 | Cameron Clark | Offensive Tackle |  New York Jets | recruited under Brad Lambert |
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.
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
2nd-best Charlotte tenure of 6 by the numbers.
Followed Brad Lambert (2015–2018) · succeeded by Peter Rossomando (2022).
| Season | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 7-6 | 2-4 | 5-7 | 1-7 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||
| OC | Alex Atkins | Mark Carney | Mark Carney | Mark Carney | |
| DC | Brandon Cooper / Marcus West | Brandon Cooper / Marcus West | Brandon Cooper / Marcus West | Greg Brown | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 72 | 22 | 50 | 31 | |
| Defense | 23 | 49 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | — | — | — | — | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | — | — | — | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | — | — | — | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and underperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Brings in smaller-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
Was he good?
The data leans negative, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+0.9 pts at Charlotte · #620 of 1290 · middle halfModel fit as of 2026-09-04.