Norm Chow
Norm Chow went 10–37 as a head coach, 2012–2015, at Hawai’i. Share
- Record
- 10–37 career
- Seasons
- 4
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 2014 4–9
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Hawai’i | 3–9 | 9th | |||
| 2013 | Hawai’i | 1–11 | 6th (West) | |||
| 2014 | Hawai’i | 4–9 | 4th (West) | |||
| 2015 | Hawai’i coached 10 of 13 games | 2–8 | 6th (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 game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 6 | 0–6 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 11 | 3–8 | 27% |
| Conference games | 30 | 4–26 | 13% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 14 | 4–10 | 29% |
| At home | 21 | 7–14 | 33% |
| On the road | 24 | 1–23 | 4% |
| At neutral sites | 2 | 2–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 9 | 7–2 | 78% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 38 | 3–35 | 8% |
His own 47 games on file, 2012–2015, 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
| Coach | Record | Their schools | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Long 2012–2015 | 0–4 | San Diego State | 4 | |
| Bobby Hauck 2012–2014 | 2–1 | UNLV | 3 | |
| Jim McElwain 2012–2014 | 0–3 | Colorado State | 3 | |
| Tim DeRuyter 2012–2014 | 0–3 | Fresno State | 3 | |
| Brian Polian 2013–2015 | 0–3 | Nevada | 3 |
Norm Chow’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| UNLVseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| San Diego Stateseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| Nevadaseries | 4 | 0–4 |
| Colorado Stateseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| Fresno Stateseries | 3 | 0–3 |
| San José Stateseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Coloradoseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Wyomingseries | 2 | 1–1 |
National coaching awards
The awards- 2002 USC: Broyles Award
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on USC’s 2003 staff (offensive coordinator) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on USC’s 2004 staff (offensive coordinator) · 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970–72 | Waialua HS (HI) high school | Head coach | |
| 1973–74 | BYU | Graduate assistant | |
| 1975 | BYU | Freshman coach | |
| 1976–77 | BYU | Wide receivers coach | |
| 1978 | BYU | Running backs coach | |
| 1979–81 | BYU | Running backs and wide receivers coach | |
| 1982–85 | BYU | Wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator | |
| 1986–95 | BYU | Quarterbacks and wide receivers coach | |
| 1996–99 | BYU | Assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks and wide receivers coach | |
| 2000 | NC State | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| 2001–04 | USC | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2005–07 | Tennessee Titans NFL | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2008–10 | UCLA | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2011 | Utah | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2012–15 | Hawaii | Head coach | |
| 2016 | Mira Costa HS (CA) high school | Assistant coach | |
| 2020 | Los Angeles Wildcats XFL | Offensive coordinator | |
| 2023 | Helvetic Guards | Head coach | |
| 2025 | Vienna Vikings | Offensive analyst |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- LaVell EdwardsBYU
- Chuck AmatoNC State
- Pete CarrollUSC
- Rick NeuheiselUCLA
- Kyle WhittinghamUtah
Assistants who became head coaches
- Thom KaumeyerPalomar, Pasadena City
- Tommy LeeWillamette, Montana Western
- Chris NaeoleHawai’i
- Tom MasonBoise State
Worked under (5)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LaVell Edwards | BYU | 1973–99 | 1973–74: graduate assistant; 1975: freshman coach; 1976–77: wide receivers coach; 1978: running backs coach; 1979–81: running backs and wide receivers coach; 1982–85: wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator; 1986–95: quarterbacks and wide receivers coach; 1996–99: assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks and wide receivers coach | |
| Chuck Amato | NC State | 2000 | Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Pete Carroll | USC | 2001–04 | Offensive coordinator | |
| Rick Neuheisel | UCLA | 2008–10 | Offensive coordinator | |
| Kyle Whittingham | Utah | 2011 | Offensive coordinator |
Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thom Kaumeyer | Hawai’i, 2012–13: defensive coordinator | Palomar, Pasadena City | |
| Tommy Lee | Hawai’i, 2012: offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | Willamette, Montana Western | |
| Chris Naeole | Hawai’i, 2013–15: offensive line coach | Hawai’i | |
| Tom Mason | Hawai’i, 2015: defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | Boise State |
Other assistants under him (3)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Clune | Hawai’i, 2014: defensive coordinator | |
| Abe Elimimian | Hawai’i, 2015: defensive backs coach; 2015: interim defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | |
| Don Bailey | Hawai’i, 2015: offensive 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hawai’i | head coachbonuses up to $1,180,000 | $637,750 USA Today | |
| 2014 | Hawai’i | head coachbonuses up to $1,180,000 | $620,500 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
Chow’s teams went for it on 22% of fourth downs and on 33% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 54% of plays and took 20.0 seconds a play, 2012–2014.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 12 g | 27 of 111 24% | 41% | 52% | 22.7 | −0.23 | |
| 2013 12 g | 26 of 122 21% | 30% | 58% | 15.4 | −0.02 | |
| 2014 12 g | 25 of 126 20% | 31% | 51% | 21.8 | −0.09 | |
| All 36 g | 78 of 359 22% | 33% | 54% | 20.0 | −0.11 |
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.