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Career arc
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.
1-3 against his rivals at Virginia. Winless in 4 tries against Earle Edwards.
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.
1-4 against his rivals at Navy. Winless in 4 tries against Ara Parseghian.
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.
2-7 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Ara Parseghian.
Building the roster
Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
Followed him here
Virginia→
Navy1965Players 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
This coach's entire tenure (1965-1968) 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.
Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
5th-best Navy tenure of 18 by the numbers.
Followed Wayne Hardin (1959–1964) · succeeded by Rick Forzano (1969–1972).
15th-best Virginia tenure of 16 by the numbers.
Followed Richard Voris (1958–1960) · succeeded by George Blackburn (1965–1970).
Was he good?
Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.
+3.7 pts at Virginia · #452 of 1290 · middle half