Jimmy Lake
Jimmy Lake went 7–6 as a head coach, 2020–2021, at Washington. Share
- Record
- 7–6 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Dec 17, 1976
- Alma mater
- Eastern Washington 2000
- Best season
- 2020 3–1
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Washington | 3–1 | 1st (North) | |||
| 2021 | Washington coached nine of 12 games | 4–5 | 5th (North) |
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
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% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Conference games | 10 | 6–4 | 60% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 9 | 5–4 | 56% |
| At home | 9 | 5–4 | 56% |
| On the road | 4 | 2–2 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 9 | 6–3 | 67% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 4 | 1–3 | 25% |
His own 13 games on file, 2020–2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arizonaseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Stanfordseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Oregon Stateseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Californiaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Utahseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Arkansas Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| UCLAseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Michiganseries | 1 | 0–1 |
How he was hired
- Hired by Washington for the 2020 season from Washington, where he was defensive coordinator. He had a prior connection to the school.
Power-conference head-coaching hires since 2010, with each coach’s previous job and ties to the school as collected by hand from Wikipedia: Hiring facts: M. Schuckers, cfb_coach_analytics.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Eastern Washington | Graduate assistant | |
| 2000–03 | Eastern Washington | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2004 | Washington | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2005 | Montana State | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2006–07 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL | Assistant defensive backs coach | |
| 2008 | Detroit Lions NFL | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2010–11 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2012–13 | Boise State | Defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator | |
| 2014–15 | Washington | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2016–17 | Washington | Co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| 2018–19 | Washington | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2020–21 | Washington | Head coach | |
| 2023 | Los Angeles Rams NFL | Assistant head coach | |
| 2024 | Atlanta Falcons NFL | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2025 | Los Angeles Rams NFL | Senior defensive assistant | |
| 2026–present | Los Angeles Rams NFL | Pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Paul WulffEastern Washington
- Keith GilbertsonWashington
- Chris PetersenBoise State, Washington
- Bob GregoryBoise State
- Raheem MorrisAtlanta Falcons
Assistants who became head coaches
- Bob GregoryBoise State, Washington
Worked under (5)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Wulff | Eastern Washington | 2000–03 | Defensive backs coach | |
| Keith Gilbertson | Washington | 2004 | Defensive backs coach | |
| Chris Petersen | Boise State | 2012–13 | Defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator | |
| Bob Gregory | Boise State | 2013 | Defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator | |
| Chris Petersen | Washington | 2014–19 | 2014–15: defensive backs coach; 2016–17: co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach; 2018–19: defensive coordinator | |
| Raheem Morris | Atlanta Falcons NFL | 2024 | Defensive coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (1)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Gregory | Washington, 2020: linebackers and special teams coach; 2021: defensive coordinator | Boise State, Washington |
Other assistants under him (4)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Ikaika Malloe | Washington, 2020: co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach; 2021: co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach | |
| John Donovan | Washington, 2020–21: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Junior Adams | Washington, 2020–21: wide receivers coach | |
| Pete Kwiatkowski | Washington, 2020: defensive 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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Washington | co-defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $91,000 | $651,504 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Washington | co-defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $96,000 | $501,504 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
Lake’s teams went for it on 19% of fourth downs and on 33% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 43% of plays and took 27.7 seconds a play, in 2020.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 4 g | 5 of 26 19% | 33% | 43% | 27.7 | +0.23 |
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.