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Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 0-2
2015Miami Beach BowlL 35-45
Florida Atlantic
2020Montgomery BowlL 10-25Report card
Below the median on both sides of the ball — 47th percentile offense, 48th percentile defense.
Florida Atlantic, 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
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.
1-2 against his rivals at Western Kentucky. Just 1-2 against Joker Phillips.
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.
2-2 against his rivals at South Florida. Winless in 3 tries against Justin Fuente.
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.
1-1 against his rivals at Oregon.
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.
0-2 against his rivals at Florida 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.
Just 1-2 against Tyson Helton.
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.
4-7 against his rivals. Just 1-4 against Rick Stockstill.
Signature games
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
Ran more than the situation called for under Mehringer/Trickett.
2,256 run and pass snaps at Florida Atlantic, 2020–2022, 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.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Five numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 2 ranked Florida Atlantic classes of his own have averaged #101 nationally — best #82, worst #120.
Florida State
Florida AtlanticAcross every program: 4 ranked classes of his own, averaging #58 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycleTransition — he was hired mid-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; inherited and mid-transition classes still show here, faded, but stay out of the average.
Followed him here
Western Kentucky→
South Florida2013South Florida→
Oregon2017Oregon→Florida State2018Florida State→Florida Atlantic2020Players 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 2022 roster arrived on his watch — 93 of 117 players. The other 24 are holdovers from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 16% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2020–2022Counting players who have since left: 15% of the 79 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 Florida Atlantic rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2020–2022). In the three seasons before he arrived, Florida Atlantic’s line averaged 11 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: 35 of 48 signees (73%) across his 2020–2022 tenure, drawn from 7 states in all. Next: GA (7).
92% of his signees come from FL and its 2 border states (GA 7, AL 2).
Off this map: 2 signees to the north (NJ, OH) and 1 to the west (KS).
- median hometown distance
- 169 mi
- within 100 mi
- 33%
- within 500 mi
- 77%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 4%
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
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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
2nd-best Florida Atlantic tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Lane Kiffin (2017–2019) · succeeded by Tom Herman (2023–2024).
| Season | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 5-4 | 5-7 | 5-7 | |
| Postseason | L bowl | — | — | |
| Coordinators | ||||
| OC | Clint Trickett / Drew Mehringer | Mike Johnson | Brent Dearmon | |
| DC | Jim Leavitt | Mike Stoops | Todd Orlando | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 26 | 27 | 61 | |
| Defense | 73 | 66 | 49 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 33.9 | 42.3 | 36.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.4 | 44.2 | 36.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 50.0 | 33.3 | 38.2 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
Typical size for position, once adjusted for position mix.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
Followed Jimbo Fisher (2010–2017) · succeeded by Odell Haggins (2019).
| Season | 2018 | 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 5-7 | 4-5 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | |
| Coordinators | |||
| OC | Walt Bell | Kendal Briles | |
| DC | Harlon Barnett | Harlon Barnett | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | 21 | 60 | |
| Defense | 64 | 77 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | 44.7 | 46.5 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 47.0 | 33.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 37.9 | 38.2 | |
Underperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
3 NFL Draft picks: Brian Burns (2019), Demarcus Christmas (2019), Cam Akers (2020)
Followed Mark Helfrich (2013–2016) · succeeded by Mario Cristobal (2018–2021).
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on offense and outperforms his recruiting talent on defense.
2 NFL Draft picks: Royce Freeman (2018), Tyrell Crosby (2018)
4th-best South Florida tenure of 9 by the numbers.
Followed Skip Holtz (2010–2012) · succeeded by Charlie Strong (2017–2019).
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||
| Record | 2-10 | 4-8 | 8-5 | 10-2 | |
| Postseason | — | — | L bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||
| OC | — | Paul Wulff | Danny Hope / David Reaves | T. J. Weist / Darren Hiller | |
| DC | — | Chuck Bresnahan | Tom Allen | Raymond Woodie Jr. | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||
| Offense | 12 | 8 | 83 | 93 | |
| Defense | 80 | 46 | 72 | 31 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||
| 1st-down pass% | 38.6 | 39.1 | 27.7 | 38.6 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.9 | 34.9 | 30.5 | 24.4 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 17.1 | 34.2 | 34.2 | 37.5 | |
Outperforms his recruiting talent on offense and performs about as expected for his recruiting talent on defense.
6 NFL Draft picks: Aaron Lynch (2014), Reshard Cliett (2015), Austin Reiter (2015), Marlon Mack (2017), Rodney Adams (2017), Kofi Amichia (2017)
6th-best Western Kentucky tenure of 6 by the numbers.
Followed David Elson (2007–2009) · succeeded by Bobby Petrino (2013).
| Season | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||
| Record | 2-10 | 7-5 | 7-5 | |
| Postseason | — | — | — | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||
| Offense | 34 | 50 | 76 | |
| Defense | 30 | 70 | 62 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||
| 1st-down pass% | 30.5 | 29.5 | 33.3 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 22.5 | 22.9 | 34.7 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 32.4 | 23.7 | 34.2 | |
1 NFL Draft pick: Quanterus Smith (2013)
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.
2nd all-time at South Florida
Was he good?
Every angle here comes back inconclusive — not enough separation from zero to call it either way.
+1.6 pts at Western Kentucky · #569 of 1290 · middle half