Fred Vonappen

Fred Vonappen went 5–⁠31 as a head coach, 1996–⁠1998, at Hawai’i.

Record
5–⁠31 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1997 3–⁠9

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1278 in 1997
SeasonSchoolRecordAP final
1996Hawai’i2–⁠10
1997Hawai’i3–⁠9
1998Hawai’i0–⁠12

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 teams30–⁠3
Against top-10 teams10–⁠1
Against rivals92–⁠7
Conference games242–⁠22
Decided by 8 points or fewer61–⁠5
At home245–⁠19
On the road120–⁠12
As our Elo’s favorite83–⁠5
As our Elo’s underdog282–⁠26

His own 36 games on file, 1996–⁠1998, 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
LaVell Edwards 1996–⁠19980–⁠3BYU3
Ted Tollner 1996–⁠19980–⁠3San Diego State3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Fresno Stateseries31–⁠2
San Diego Stateseries30–⁠3
San José Stateseries30–⁠3
BYUseries30–⁠3
UNLVseries21–⁠1
Colorado Stateseries20–⁠2
Air Forceseries20–⁠2
Wyomingseries20–⁠2

Coaching tree

Fred Vonappen

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Tom WilliamsHawai’i, 1996–⁠98: linebackers coach and defensive coordinatorYale
Trent MilesHawai’i, 1996: defensive backs coachGeorgia State, Indiana State
Wally EnglishHawai’i, 1997: offensive coordinatorTulane
Brent BrennanHawai’i, 1998: graduate assistant and wide receivers coachSan José State, Arizona
Other assistants under him (2)
CoachWith him
Don LindseyHawai’i, 1996–⁠97: defensive coordinator; 1998: offensive coordinator
Guy BenjaminHawai’i, 1996: 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.