Fitz Hill

Fitz Hill went 14–⁠33 as a head coach, 2001–⁠2004, at San José State.

Record
14–⁠33 career
Seasons
4
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2002 6–⁠7

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1419 in 2002
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
2001San José State3–⁠9
2002San José State6–⁠7
2003San José State3–⁠8
2004San José State2–⁠9

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams50–⁠5
Against top-10 teams10–⁠1
Against rivals121–⁠11
Conference games3210–⁠22
Decided by 8 points or fewer82–⁠6
At home188–⁠10
On the road285–⁠23
At neutral sites11–⁠0
As our Elo’s favorite1511–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog323–⁠29

His own 47 games on file, 2001–⁠2004, 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

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Dan Hawkins 2001–⁠20040–⁠4Boise State4
June Jones 2001–⁠20040–⁠4Hawai’i4
Pat Hill 2001–⁠20040–⁠4Fresno State4
Gary Nord 2001–⁠20033–⁠0UTEP3
Phil Bennett 2002–⁠20042–⁠1SMU3
Chris Tormey 2001–⁠20031–⁠2Nevada3
Buddy Teevens 2002–⁠20040–⁠3Stanford3

Fitz Hill’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
UTEPseries43–⁠1
Tulsaseries42–⁠2
SMUseries42–⁠2
Nevadaseries41–⁠3
Stanfordseries40–⁠4
Hawai’iseries40–⁠4
Boise Stateseries40–⁠4
Fresno Stateseries40–⁠4

Coaching tree

Fitz Hill

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Norman JosephSan José State, 2001–⁠02: offensive coordinatorBelhaven, Louisiana Christian, Mississippi College
Chris WilkersonSan José State, 2002: defensive ends coach; 2003–⁠04: defensive coordinator and safeties coachChicago, Eastern Illinois
Barry Lunney Jr.San José State, 2003–⁠04: co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachArkansas
Marcus ArroyoSan José State, 2003: UAUNLV, Arizona State
Keith BurnsSan José State, 2004: defensive coordinatorTulsa
Other assistants under him (2)
CoachWith him
Ronnie LeeSan José State, 2001–⁠02: defensive coordinator
Charlie RocheSan José State, 2003: offensive coordinator

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.