Mike DeBord

Mike DeBord went 12–⁠34 as a head coach, 2000–⁠2003, at Central Michigan.

Record
12–⁠34 career
Seasons
4
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2002 4–⁠8

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1312 in 2002
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2000Central Michigan2–⁠96th (West)
2001Central Michigan3–⁠85th (West)
2002Central Michigan4–⁠85th (West)
2003Central Michigan3–⁠97th (West)

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams20–⁠2
Against rivals84–⁠4
Conference games327–⁠25
Decided by 8 points or fewer116–⁠5
At home229–⁠13
On the road243–⁠21
As our Elo’s favorite139–⁠4
As our Elo’s underdog333–⁠30

His own 46 games on file, 2000–⁠2003, 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
Jeff Woodruff 2000–⁠20033–⁠1Eastern Michigan4
Gary Darnell 2000–⁠20031–⁠3Western Michigan4
Joe Novak 2000–⁠20030–⁠4Northern Illinois4
Lee Owens 2000–⁠20032–⁠1Akron3
Bill Lynch 2000–⁠20020–⁠3Ball State3
Tom Amstutz 2001–⁠20030–⁠3Toledo3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Eastern Michiganseries43–⁠1
Western Michiganseries41–⁠3
Ball Stateseries40–⁠4
Northern Illinoisseries40–⁠4
Toledoseries40–⁠4
Akronseries32–⁠1
Eastern Kentuckyseries22–⁠0
Wyomingseries21–⁠1

National title staffs

Every title staff

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

YearsTeamJob
1982–⁠83Franklin (IN)Offensive line coach
1984Fort Hays State service teamOffensive line coach
1985–⁠86Fort Hays State service teamOffensive coordinator and quarterbacks and wide receivers coach
1987–⁠88Eastern IllinoisOffensive line coach
1988–⁠89Ball StateOffensive line coach
1990–⁠91Colorado StateOffensive line coach
1992NorthwesternOffensive line coach
1993–⁠96MichiganOffensive line coach
1997–⁠99MichiganOffensive coordinator
2000–⁠03Central MichiganHead coach
2004–⁠05MichiganSpecial teams coach and recruiting coordinator
2006–⁠07MichiganOffensive coordinator and tight ends coach
2008Seattle Seahawks NFLAssistant offensive line coach
2009Seattle Seahawks NFLTight ends coach
2010–⁠12Chicago Bears NFLTight ends coach
2015–⁠16TennesseeOffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
2017–⁠18IndianaAssistant head coach, offensive coordinator and tight ends coach
2019San Diego Fleet AAFOffensive coordinator
2020MichiganOffensive assistant
2021KansasOffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Mike DeBord

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (13)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Bobby ThompsonFort Hays State service team1984Offensive line coach
Bob SpooEastern Illinois1987–⁠88Offensive line coach
Paul SchudelBall State1988–⁠89Offensive line coach
Earle BruceColorado State1990–⁠91Offensive line coach
Gary BarnettNorthwestern1992Offensive line coach
Gary MoellerMichigan1993–⁠94Offensive line coach
Lloyd CarrMichigan1995–⁠20071995–⁠96: offensive line coach; 1997–⁠99: offensive coordinator; 2004–⁠05: special teams coach and recruiting coordinator; 2006–⁠07: offensive coordinator and tight ends coach
Jim MoraSeattle Seahawks NFL2009Tight ends coach
Lovie SmithChicago Bears NFL2010–⁠12Tight ends coach
Butch JonesTennessee2015–⁠16Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
Tom AllenIndiana2017–⁠18Assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and tight ends coach
Jim HarbaughMichigan2020Offensive assistant
Lance LeipoldKansas2021Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Butch JonesCentral Michigan, 2000: running backs coach; 2001–⁠03: offensive coordinatorCentral Michigan, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Arkansas State
Scot LoefflerCentral Michigan, 2000–⁠01: quarterbacks coachBowling Green
Curt MalloryCentral Michigan, 2001: defensive backs coachIndiana State
Bob BartolomeoCentral Michigan, 2003: defensive coordinatorButler, Indianapolis
Other assistants under him (3)
CoachWith him
Willie MartinezCentral Michigan, 2000: assistant head coach and secondary coach
John JancekCentral Michigan, 2002–⁠03: defensive line coach
Mike BajakianCentral Michigan, 2002–⁠03: 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.

Pay

YearSchoolJobContract pay
2017Indianaoffensive coordinatorbonuses up to $110,000$502,000 USA Today
2016Tennesseeoffensive coordinatorbonuses up to $120,000$505,000 USA Today
2015Tennesseeoffensive coordinatorbonuses up to $120,000$505,000 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.