Bill Clark
Bill Clark went 60–30 as a head coach, 2013–2021, at Jacksonville State and UAB. Share
One season our game records don’t credit to him comes from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2013 at Jacksonville State. It’s marked in the table.
- Record
- 60–30 career
- Seasons
- 7
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jun 28, 1968
- Alma mater
- Jacksonville State 1990
- Best season
- 2018 11–3
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Jacksonville State * | 11–4 | T–3rd | NCAA Division I Quarterfinal L | 10 | |
| 2014 | UAB | 6–6 | T–3rd (East) | |||
| 2015–16: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2017 | UAB | 8–5 | 2nd (West) | Bahamas Bowl L | ||
| 2018 | UAB | 11–3 | 1st (West) | Boca Raton Bowl W | ||
| 2019 | UAB | 9–5 | T–1st (West) | New Orleans Bowl L | ||
| 2020 | UAB | 6–3 | 1st (West) | Gasparilla (not played) | ||
| 2021 | UAB | 9–4 | 2nd (West) | Independence Bowl W | ||
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table. * A season our game records don’t credit to him; its record is the article’s.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 6 | 5–1 | 83% |
| Conference games | 44 | 32–12 | 73% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 4 | 2–2 | 50% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 26 | 18–8 | 69% |
| At home | 31 | 25–6 | 81% |
| On the road | 37 | 19–18 | 51% |
| At neutral sites | 7 | 5–2 | 71% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 45 | 37–8 | 82% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 30 | 12–18 | 40% |
His own 75 games on file, 2014–2021, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Against other head coaches
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skip Holtz 2014–2021 | 4–2 | Louisiana Tech | 6 | |
| Seth Littrell 2017–2021 | 3–1 | North Texas | 4 | |
| Mike Bloomgren 2018–2021 | 3–1 | Rice | 4 | |
| Rick Stockstill 2014–2018 | 2–2 | Middle Tennessee | 4 | |
| Frank Wilson 2017–2019 | 3–0 | UTSA | 3 | |
| Dana Dimel 2018–2021 | 3–0 | UTEP | 3 | |
| Jay Hopson 2017–2019 | 2–1 | Southern Miss | 3 |
Bill Clark’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana Techseries | 6 | 4–2 |
| Riceseries | 5 | 4–1 |
| North Texasseries | 5 | 4–1 |
| Southern Missseries | 5 | 4–1 |
| UTSAseries | 5 | 4–1 |
| UTEPseries | 4 | 4–0 |
| Middle Tennesseeseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| Western Kentuckyseries | 3 | 2–1 |
National coaching awards
The awards- 2018 UAB: Eddie Robinson
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990–91 | Piedmont HS (AL) high school | Assistant coach | |
| 1992–94 | Tuscaloosa County HS (AL) high school | Defensive coordinator | |
| 1995–96 | Coffee County HS (GA) high school | Defensive coordinator | |
| 1997–98 | Dothan HS (AL) high school | Defensive coordinator | |
| 1999–2007 | Prattville HS (AL) high school | Head coach | |
| 2008–12 | South Alabama | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2013 | Jacksonville State | Head coach | |
| 2014–21 | UAB | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Joey JonesSouth Alabama
Assistants who became head coaches
- John GrassJacksonville State, Samford
- Bryant VincentUAB, UL Monroe
- Casey WoodsMissouri State
Worked under (1)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey Jones | South Alabama | 2008–12 | Defensive coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Grass | Jacksonville State, 2013: assistant head coach and offensive coordinator | Jacksonville State, Samford | |
| Bryant Vincent | UAB, 2014, 2018–21: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | UAB, UL Monroe | |
| Casey Woods | UAB, 2017–19: running game coordinator, tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator | Missouri State |
Other assistants under him (6)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Duwan Walker | UAB, 2014: defensive coordinator | |
| Mike Miller | UAB, 2014: student assistant | |
| Brian Williams | UAB, 2016–18: linebackers coach | |
| Les Koenning | UAB, 2016–17: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| David Reeves | UAB, 2017–21: defensive coordinator | |
| Joe Craddock | UAB, 2020–21: tight ends coach |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | UAB | head coachbonuses up to $685,000; buyout $1,575,000 | $630,000 USA Today | |
| 2014 | UAB | head coachbonuses up to $430,000 | $500,000 USA Today |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.
How he coached
Clark’s teams went for it on 17% of fourth downs and on 35% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 40% of plays and took 27.0 seconds a play, 2014–2021.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 11 g | 27 of 92 29% | 50% | 38% | 22.2 | −0.02 | |
| 2017 13 g | 12 of 96 13% | 25% | 42% | 25.2 | +0.03 | |
| 2018 14 g | 13 of 95 14% | 31% | 38% | 26.9 | +0.08 | |
| 2019 14 g | 20 of 111 18% | 29% | 41% | 28.3 | −0.10 | |
| 2020 9 g | 9 of 67 13% | 38% | 41% | 28.5 | 0.00 | |
| 2021 13 g | 14 of 87 16% | 42% | 40% | 30.4 | +0.09 | |
| All 74 g | 95 of 548 17% | 35% | 40% | 27.0 | +0.01 |
His seasons as a head coach from 2004 on, from ESPN’s play by play: fourth downs where he went for it out of every fourth-down decision; how often he went when SportsDataverse’s fourth-down model said going for it was the better call; the share of his offense’s plays that were passes; seconds of game clock per offensive play (lower is faster); and expected points added per offensive play (EPA, a measure of how much each play moved the offense toward points). The season in progress counts its games so far. SportsDataverse’s coach tendencies, from ESPN’s play by play; the EPA and the fourth-down model are SportsDataverse’s.