Joe Harasymiak
Joe Harasymiak went 4–15 as a head coach, 2025–2026, at Massachusetts. Share
- Record
- 4–15 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jun 23, 1986
- Alma mater
- Springfield 2008
- Best season
- 2026 4–3
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Massachusetts | 0–12 | ||
| 2026 | Massachusetts | 4–3 |
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Conference games | 12 | 1–11 | 8% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 4 | 0–4 | 0% |
| At home | 10 | 2–8 | 20% |
| On the road | 9 | 2–7 | 22% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 5 | 2–3 | 40% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 14 | 2–12 | 14% |
His own 19 games on file, 2025–2026, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buffaloseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Sacramento Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Rutgersseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Stonehillseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Sacred Heartseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Missouriseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Bowling Greenseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Miami (OH)series | 1 | 0–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Maine Maritime | Assistant coach | |
| 2009–10 | Springfield (MA) | Graduate assistant | |
| 2011–13 | Maine | Defensive backs coach | |
| 2014–15 | Maine | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2016–18 | Maine | Head coach | |
| 2019 | Minnesota | Safeties coach | |
| 2020–21 | Minnesota | Co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| 2022–24 | Rutgers | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2025–present | UMass | Head coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Jack CosgroveMaine
- P.J. FleckMinnesota
- Greg SchianoRutgers
Assistants who became head coaches
- Liam CoenJacksonville Jaguars
- Nick CharltonMaine
- Jim ReidMassachusetts, Richmond, VMI
Worked under (3)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Cosgrove | Maine | 2011–15 | 2011–13: defensive backs coach; 2014–15: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| P.J. Fleck | Minnesota | 2019–21 | 2019: safeties coach; 2020–21: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach | |
| Greg Schiano | Rutgers | 2022–24 | Defensive coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liam Coen | Maine, 2016–17: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| Nick Charlton | Maine, 2016–17: special teams and wide receivers coach; 2018: offensive coordinator | Maine | |
| Jim Reid | Massachusetts, 2025: analyst | Massachusetts, Richmond, VMI |
Other assistants under him (4)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Corey Hetherman | Maine, 2016–18: defensive coordinator | |
| Jared Keyte | Maine, 2016–17: outside linebackers coach; 2018: special teams and outside linebackers coach; Massachusetts, 2025–26: defensive coordinator | |
| Ben Albert | Massachusetts, 2025–26: assistant head coach, special teams coordinator and defensive line coach | |
| Mike Bajakian | Massachusetts, 2025: 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.
How he coached
Harasymiak’s teams went for it on 22% of fourth downs and on 46% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 53% of plays and took 26.5 seconds a play, 2025–2026.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 12 g | 26 of 110 24% | 50% | 59% | 24.5 | −0.18 | |
| 2026 7 g | 9 of 51 18% | 39% | 43% | 29.9 | +0.07 | |
| All 19 g | 35 of 161 22% | 46% | 53% | 26.5 | −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.