Matt Canada
Matt Canada went 5–7 as a head coach, 2018, at Maryland. Share
- Record
- 5–7 career
- Seasons
- 1
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jan 19, 1972
- Alma mater
- Indiana 1993
- Best season
- 2018 5–7
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Maryland | 5–7 | 5th (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 | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| Against top-10 teams | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Conference games | 9 | 3–6 | 33% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 3 | 1–2 | 33% |
| At home | 6 | 3–3 | 50% |
| On the road | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 1–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 4 | 3–1 | 75% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 8 | 2–6 | 25% |
His own 12 games on file, 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Minnesotaseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Rutgersseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Bowling Greenseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Texasseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Illinoisseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Indianaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Michigan Stateseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Michiganseries | 1 | 0–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994–96 | Indiana | Graduate assistant | |
| 1997 | Butler | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 1998–2000 | Northern Illinois | Running backs coach | |
| 2001–02 | Northern Illinois | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2003 | Northern Illinois | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2004 | Indiana | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2005–06 | Indiana | Passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2007–10 | Indiana | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2011 | Northern Illinois | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2012 | Wisconsin | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2013–15 | NC State | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2016 | Pittsburgh | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2017 | LSU | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2018 | Maryland | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2018 | Maryland | Interim head coach | |
| 2020 | Pittsburgh Steelers NFL | Quarterbacks coach | |
| 2021–23 | Pittsburgh Steelers NFL | Offensive coordinator |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Bill MalloryIndiana
- Joe NovakNorthern Illinois
- Gerry DiNardoIndiana
- Terry HoeppnerIndiana
- Bill LynchIndiana
- Dave DoerenNorthern Illinois, NC State
- Bret BielemaWisconsin
- Barry AlvarezWisconsin
- Pat NarduzziPittsburgh
- Ed OrgeronLSU
Assistants who became head coaches
- Bryan StinespringVirginia Tech, Roanoke
- Wesley BeschornerWisconsin Eau Claire
Worked under (10)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Mallory | Indiana | 1994–96 | Graduate assistant | |
| Joe Novak | Northern Illinois | 1998–2003 | 1998–2000: running backs coach; 2001–02: quarterbacks coach; 2003: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Gerry DiNardo | Indiana | 2004 | Quarterbacks coach | |
| Terry Hoeppner | Indiana | 2005–06 | Passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Bill Lynch | Indiana | 2007–10 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Dave Doeren | Northern Illinois | 2011 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Bret Bielema | Wisconsin | 2012 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Barry Alvarez | Wisconsin | 2012 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Dave Doeren | NC State | 2013–15 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Pat Narduzzi | Pittsburgh | 2016 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Ed Orgeron | LSU | 2017 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Stinespring | Maryland, 2018: offensive line coach | Virginia Tech, Roanoke | |
| Wesley Beschorner | Maryland, 2018: quarterbacks coach | Wisconsin Eau Claire |
Other assistants under him (5)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Aazaar Abdul-Rahim | Maryland, 2018: cornerbacks coach | |
| Andy Buh | Maryland, 2018: defensive coordinator | |
| Chris Beatty | Maryland, 2018: assistant head coach, co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Chuck Heater | Maryland, 2018: safeties coach | |
| Matt Barnes | Maryland, 2018: special teams coordinator and linebackers 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.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | LSU | offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $150,000 | $1,505,000 USA Today | |
| 2015 | NC State | offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $195,000 | $560,000 USA Today | |
| 2014 | NC State | offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $195,000 | $500,000 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
Canada’s teams went for it on 11% of fourth downs and on 23% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 38% of plays and took 28.0 seconds a play, in 2018.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 12 g | 10 of 90 11% | 23% | 38% | 28.0 | +0.01 |
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.