Larry Porter
Larry Porter went 3–21 as a head coach, 2010–2011, at Memphis. Share
- Record
- 3–21 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 2011 2–10
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Memphis | 1–11 | 6th (East) | |||
| 2011 | Memphis | 2–10 | 6th (East) |
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 rivals | 6 | 0–6 | 0% |
| Conference games | 16 | 1–15 | 6% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| At home | 12 | 2–10 | 17% |
| On the road | 12 | 1–11 | 8% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 22 | 2–20 | 9% |
His own 24 games on file, 2010–2011, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Middle Tennesseeseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| UABseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| East Carolinaseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Marshallseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Mississippi Stateseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| UCFseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Southern Missseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Austin Peayseries | 1 | 1–0 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on LSU’s 2007 staff (running backs) · the staff · source
The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Tennessee–Martin | Running backs coach | |
| 1999–2001 | Arkansas State | Running backs coach | |
| 2002–04 | Oklahoma State | Running backs coach | |
| 2005–09 | LSU | Assistant head coach, special teams coordinator and running backs coach | |
| 2010–11 | Memphis | Head coach | |
| 2012 | Arizona State | Running backs coach | |
| 2013 | Texas | Running backs coach | |
| 2014–16 | North Carolina | Running backs coach | |
| 2017–20 | Auburn | Tight ends and halfbacks coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| 2021 | North Carolina | Running backs coach and assistant special teams coordinator | |
| 2022–24 | North Carolina | Special teams coordinator and running backs coach | |
| 2025 | West Virginia | Running backs coach | |
| 2026–present | Auburn | Running backs coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Jim MarshallUT Martin
- Joe HollisArkansas State
- Les MilesOklahoma State, LSU
- Todd GrahamArizona State
- Mack BrownTexas, North Carolina
- Larry FedoraNorth Carolina
- Gus MalzahnAuburn
- Kevin SteeleAuburn
- Freddie KitchensNorth Carolina
- Rich RodriguezWest Virginia
- Alex GoleshAuburn
Assistants who became head coaches
- Jay HopsonSouthern Miss, Alcorn State
- Mike DuBoseAlabama, Millsaps
- Jerry MackKennesaw State, North Carolina Central
Worked under (11)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Marshall | UT Martin | 1998 | Running backs coach | |
| Joe Hollis | Arkansas State | 1999–2001 | Running backs coach | |
| Les Miles | Oklahoma State | 2002–04 | Running backs coach | |
| Les Miles | LSU | 2005–09 | Assistant head coach, special teams coordinator and running backs coach | |
| Todd Graham | Arizona State | 2012 | Running backs coach | |
| Mack Brown | Texas | 2013 | Running backs coach | |
| Larry Fedora | North Carolina | 2014–16 | Running backs coach | |
| Gus Malzahn | Auburn | 2017–20 | Tight ends and halfbacks coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| Kevin Steele | Auburn | 2020 | Tight ends and halfbacks coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| Mack Brown | North Carolina | 2021–24 | 2021: running backs coach and assistant special teams coordinator; 2022–24: special teams coordinator and running backs coach | |
| Freddie Kitchens | North Carolina | 2024 | Special teams coordinator and running backs coach | |
| Rich Rodriguez | West Virginia | 2025 | Running backs coach | |
| Alex Golesh | Auburn | 2026 | Running backs coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Hopson | Memphis, 2010–11: defensive coordinator and safeties coach | Southern Miss, Alcorn State | |
| Mike DuBose | Memphis, 2010–11: defensive line coach | Alabama, Millsaps | |
| Jerry Mack | Memphis, 2011: wide receivers coach | Kennesaw State, North Carolina Central |
Other assistants under him (4)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Craig Stutzmann | Memphis, 2010: graduate assistant | |
| Eric Price | Memphis, 2010–11: offensive coordinator | |
| Kevin McGiven | Memphis, 2010–11: assistant head coach, quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| Blake Miller | Memphis, 2011: offensive line 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
Porter’s teams went for it on 8% of fourth downs and on 15% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 54% of plays and took 24.0 seconds a play, 2010–2011.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 11 g | 6 of 88 7% | 14% | 52% | 24.5 | −0.14 | |
| 2011 9 g | 8 of 93 9% | 17% | 57% | 23.4 | −0.26 | |
| All 20 g | 14 of 181 8% | 15% | 54% | 24.0 | −0.19 |
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.