Everett Withers
Everett Withers went 32–43 as a head coach, 2011–2024, at North Carolina, James Madison, Texas State and Temple. Share
Two seasons our game records don’t credit to him come from the coach’s Wikipedia article: 2014–15 at James Madison. They’re marked in the table.
- Record
- 32–43 career
- Seasons
- 7
- Schools
- 4
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jun 15, 1963
- Alma mater
- App State
- Best season
- 2011 7–6
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | North Carolina | 7–6 | T–4th (Coastal) | Independence Bowl L | ||
| 2012–13: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2014 | James Madison * | 9–4 | 3rd | NCAA Division I First Round L | ||
| 2015 | James Madison * | 9–3 | T–1st | NCAA Division I Second Round L | ||
| 2016 | Texas State | 2–10 | 11th | |||
| 2017 | Texas State | 2–10 | 12th | |||
| 2018 | Texas State coached 11 of 12 games | 3–8 | ||||
| 2019–23: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2024 | Temple interim, final 2 games | 0–2 | T–11th | |||
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.
Players he coached
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 | 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 6 | 3–3 | 50% |
| Conference games | 33 | 5–28 | 15% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 15 | 4–11 | 27% |
| At home | 25 | 10–15 | 40% |
| On the road | 24 | 4–20 | 17% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 12 | 10–2 | 83% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 38 | 4–34 | 11% |
His own 50 games on file, 2011–2024, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doug Martin 2016–2018 | 1–2 | New Mexico State | 3 | |
| Matt Viator 2016–2018 | 0–3 | UL Monroe | 3 | |
| Neal Brown 2016–2018 | 0–3 | Troy | 3 | |
| Scott Satterfield 2016–2018 | 0–3 | App State | 3 |
Everett Withers’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 |
|---|---|---|
| New Mexico Stateseries | 3 | 1–2 |
| Georgia Stateseries | 3 | 1–2 |
| Louisianaseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| App Stateseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| UL Monroeseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| UTSAseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Troyseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Rutgersseries | 2 | 1–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Austin Peay | Defensive backs coach | |
| 1989 | Austin Peay | Defensive coordinator | |
| 1990 | Austin Peay | Wide receivers and special teams coach | |
| 1991 | Tulane | Outside linebackers coach | |
| 1992–93 | Southern Miss | Assistant special teams and defensive backs coach | |
| 1994 | New Orleans Saints NFL | Defensive quality control coach | |
| 1995–97 | Louisville | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 1998–2000 | Texas | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2001–06 | Tennessee Titans NFL | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2007 | Minnesota | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2008–10 | North Carolina | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2011 | North Carolina | Interim head coach | |
| 2012–13 | Ohio State | Assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| 2014–15 | James Madison | Head coach | |
| 2016–18 | Texas State | Head coach | |
| 2019 | New York Giants NFL | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2020 | Texas | Analyst | |
| 2021 | FIU | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| 2022 | Temple | Assistant head coach | |
| 2023 | Florida Atlantic | Assistant head coach and passing game coordinator | |
| 2023–24 | Temple | Defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| 2024 | Temple | Interim head coach, defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Greg DavisTulane
- Jeff BowerSouthern Miss
- Jim MoraNew Orleans Saints
- Ron CooperLouisville
- Mack BrownTexas
- Tim BrewsterMinnesota
- Butch DavisNorth Carolina, Florida International
- Urban MeyerOhio State
- Pat ShurmurNew York Giants
- Tom HermanTexas, Florida Atlantic
- Stan DraytonTemple
Assistants who became head coaches
- Sam PittmanArkansas, Hutchinson
- Brad DavisLSU
- Brandon StaleyLos Angeles Chargers
- Brett ElliottLewis & Clark
- Chris WoodsTexas State, Mansfield, Stonehill
Worked under (11)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Davis | Tulane | 1991 | Outside linebackers coach | |
| Jeff Bower | Southern Miss | 1992–93 | Assistant special teams and defensive backs coach | |
| Jim Mora | New Orleans Saints NFL | 1994 | Defensive quality control coach | |
| Ron Cooper | Louisville | 1995–97 | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Mack Brown | Texas | 1998–2000 | Defensive backs coach | |
| Tim Brewster | Minnesota | 2007 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Butch Davis | North Carolina | 2008–10 | Defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Urban Meyer | Ohio State | 2012–13 | Assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| Pat Shurmur | New York Giants NFL | 2019 | Defensive backs coach | |
| Tom Herman | Texas | 2020 | Analyst | |
| Butch Davis | Florida International | 2021 | Assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| Stan Drayton | Temple | 2022–24 | 2022: assistant head coach; 2023–24: defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| Tom Herman | Florida Atlantic | 2023 | Assistant head coach and passing game coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Pittman | North Carolina, 2011: assistant head coach and offensive line coach | Arkansas, Hutchinson | |
| Brad Davis | James Madison, 2014: co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | LSU | |
| Brandon Staley | James Madison, 2014: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | Los Angeles Chargers | |
| Brett Elliott | James Madison, 2015: co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; Texas State, 2016: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; 2018: quarterbacks coach | Lewis & Clark | |
| Chris Woods | Texas State, 2018: defensive coordinator; Temple, 2024: linebackers coach | Texas State, Mansfield, Stonehill |
Other assistants under him (9)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Art Kaufman | North Carolina, 2011: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| John Shoop | North Carolina, 2011: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Drew Mehringer | James Madison, 2014: co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Randall McCray | Texas State, 2016–17: defensive coordinator | |
| Skyler Cassity | Texas State, 2016: graduate assistant | |
| Tyler Santucci | Texas State, 2016: linebackers coach | |
| Parker Fleming | Texas State, 2017: co-offensive coordinator | |
| Zak Kuhr | Texas State, 2017–18: offensive coordinator | |
| Danny Langsdorf | Temple, 2024: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks 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 | Texas State | head coachbonuses up to $68,750; buyout $1,120,161 | $675,000 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Texas State | head coachbonuses up to $66,667 | $650,000 USA Today | |
| 2011 | North Carolina | head coachbonuses up to $100,000 | $500,000 USA Today via Leeds |
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.
The same USA Today database for 2006–16, from Michael Leeds’ replication data on Harvard Dataverse (CC0): the season’s contract pay.
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
Withers’s teams went for it on 16% of fourth downs and on 28% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 49% of plays and took 23.9 seconds a play, 2011–2018.
| Season | School | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 13 g | North Carolina | 13 of 84 15% | 27% | 49% | 25.4 | 0.00 | |
| 2016 12 g | Texas State | 23 of 117 20% | 34% | 55% | 20.5 | −0.13 | |
| 2017 11 g | Texas State | 12 of 97 12% | 23% | 46% | 24.5 | −0.14 | |
| 2018 12 g | Texas State | 14 of 99 14% | 25% | 46% | 25.1 | −0.11 | |
| All 48 g | 62 of 397 16% | 28% | 49% | 23.9 | −0.09 |
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.