Bryan McClendon
Bryan McClendon went 1–1 as a head coach, 2015–2021, at Georgia and Oregon. Share
- Record
- 1–1 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Dec 28, 1983
- Alma mater
- Georgia
- Best season
- 2021 10–4, No. 22
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Georgia interim, bowl game | 1–0 | TaxSlayer Bowl W | 24 | ||
| 2016–20: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2021 | Oregon interim, bowl game | 0–1 | Alamo Bowl L | 22 | ||
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.
Players he coached
Verone McKinley IIIConsensus All‑American, 2021
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| At neutral sites | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
His own two games on file, 2015–2021, 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.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Penn Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Oklahomaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Georgia’s 2022 staff (passing game coordinator – wide receivers) · the staff · source
The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.
Also a player: Bryan McClendon’s playing career.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007–08 | Georgia | Graduate assistant | |
| 2009–14 | Georgia | Running backs coach | |
| 2015 | Georgia | Assistant head coach, wide receivers coach and pass game coordinator | |
| 2015 | Georgia | Interim head coach | |
| 2016–17 | South Carolina | Co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2018–19 | South Carolina | Offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2020–21 | Oregon | Pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2021 | Oregon | Interim head coach | |
| 2022–23 | Georgia | Pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2024–present | Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL | Wide receivers coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Mark RichtGeorgia
- Will MuschampSouth Carolina
- Mario CristobalOregon
- Kirby SmartGeorgia
Assistants who became head coaches
- Jeremy PruittTennessee
- Bobby WilliamsMichigan State
- Joe MoorheadMississippi State, Akron, Fordham
- Ken WilsonNevada
- Tim DeRuyterTexas A&M, Fresno State
Worked under (4)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Richt | Georgia | 2007–15 | 2007–08: graduate assistant; 2009–14: running backs coach; 2015: assistant head coach, wide receivers coach and pass game coordinator | |
| Will Muschamp | South Carolina | 2016–19 | 2016–17: co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach; 2018–19: offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Mario Cristobal | Oregon | 2020–21 | Pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Kirby Smart | Georgia | 2022–23 | Pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Pruitt | Georgia, 2015: defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | Tennessee | |
| Bobby Williams | Oregon, 2021: special teams and tight ends coach | Michigan State | |
| Joe Moorhead | Oregon, 2021: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Mississippi State, Akron, Fordham | |
| Ken Wilson | Oregon, 2021: co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | Nevada | |
| Tim DeRuyter | Oregon, 2021: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | Texas A&M, Fresno State |
Other assistants under him (9)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Schottenheimer | Georgia, 2015: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Brian Williams | Georgia, 2015: player relations director | |
| Kevin Sherrer | Georgia, 2015: outside linebackers coach | |
| Mike Ekeler | Georgia, 2015: inside linebackers coach and DSTC | |
| Rob Sale | Georgia, 2015: offensive line coach | |
| Steve Shimko | Georgia, 2015: graduate assistant | |
| Thomas Brown | Georgia, 2015: running backs coach | |
| Joe Salave’a | Oregon, 2021: assistant head coach, defensive line coach and co-defensive coordinator | |
| Michael Hutchings | Oregon, 2021: defensive analyst |
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 | State payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Carolina | co-offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $115,000 | $500,000 USA Today | ||
| 2016 | South Carolina | co-offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $115,000 | $450,000 USA Today | ||
| 2015 | Georgia | interim head coach | $185,119 |
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.
Open Georgia (State of Georgia, unaudited): salary paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it.
Contract pay and the state payroll differ by design: one is the season’s contract, the other what the state paid in a calendar or fiscal year, so a December hire’s short first year, bonuses and camp money paid as special payments, and pay that ran on after he left all show in the payroll.
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.