Randy Shannon
Randy Shannon went 29–25 as a head coach, 2007–2017, at Miami and Florida. Share
- Record
- 29–25 career
- Seasons
- 5
- Schools
- 2
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Feb 24, 1966
- Alma mater
- Miami
- Best season
- 2009 9–4, No. 19
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Miami | 5–7 | 5th (Coastal) | |||
| 2008 | Miami | 7–6 | T–3rd (Coastal) | Emerald Bowl L | ||
| 2009 | Miami | 9–4 | 3rd (Coastal) | Champs Sports Bowl L | 19 | |
| 2010 | Miami | 7–5 | 2nd (Coastal) | Sun (not coached) | ||
| 2011–16: not a college head coach | ||||||
| 2017 | Florida interim, remainder of season | 1–3 | 5th (Eastern) | |||
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
Taven BryanNo. 29 pick, 2018
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 | 14 | 4–10 | 29% |
| Against top-10 teams | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| Against rivals | 10 | 3–7 | 30% |
| Conference games | 34 | 16–18 | 47% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 20 | 9–11 | 45% |
| At home | 27 | 17–10 | 63% |
| On the road | 25 | 12–13 | 48% |
| At neutral sites | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 32 | 18–14 | 56% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 22 | 11–11 | 50% |
His own 54 games on file, 2007–2017, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butch Davis 2007–2010 | 1–3 | North Carolina | 4 | |
| Frank Beamer 2007–2010 | 1–3 | Virginia Tech | 4 | |
| David Cutcliffe 2008–2010 | 3–0 | Duke | 3 | |
| Al Groh 2007–2009 | 2–1 | Virginia | 3 | |
| Bobby Bowden 2007–2009 | 2–1 | Florida State | 3 | |
| Paul Johnson 2008–2010 | 2–1 | Georgia Tech | 3 |
Randy Shannon’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 |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Stateseries | 5 | 2–3 |
| Dukeseries | 4 | 4–0 |
| Georgia Techseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| Virginiaseries | 4 | 2–2 |
| North Carolinaseries | 4 | 1–3 |
| Virginia Techseries | 4 | 1–3 |
| Florida A&Mseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Wake Forestseries | 2 | 2–0 |
National coaching awards
The awards- 2001 Miami (FL): Broyles Award
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Miami’s 2001 staff (defensive 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Miami (FL) | Graduate assistant | |
| 1992 | Miami (FL) | Defensive line coach | |
| 1993–97 | Miami (FL) | Linebackers coach | |
| 1998–99 | Miami Dolphins NFL | Defensive assistant | |
| 2000 | Miami Dolphins NFL | Linebackers coach | |
| 2001–05 | Miami (FL) | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2006 | Miami (FL) | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2007–10 | Miami (FL) | Head coach | |
| 2012 | TCU | Linebackers coach | |
| 2013–14 | Arkansas | Linebackers coach | |
| 2015–16 | Florida | Assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2017 | Florida | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2017 | Florida | Interim head coach | |
| 2018–20 | UCF | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2021 | Florida State | Senior defensive analyst | |
| 2022–24 | Florida State | Co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| 2024 | Florida State | Interim defensive coordinator and linebackers coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Dennis EricksonMiami
- Butch DavisMiami
- Jimmy JohnsonMiami Dolphins
- Dave WannstedtMiami Dolphins
- Larry CokerMiami
- Gary PattersonTCU
- Bret BielemaArkansas
- Jim McElwainFlorida
- Josh HeupelUCF
- Mike NorvellFlorida State
Assistants who became head coaches
- Patrick NixHenderson State
- Mark WhippleMassachusetts, New Haven, Brown
- Brad DavisLSU
- Robb AkeyIdaho, Oregon State
- Tim SkipperFresno State, UCLA, Cal Poly
Worked under (10)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dennis Erickson | Miami | 1991–94 | 1991: graduate assistant; 1992: defensive line coach; 1993–94: linebackers coach | |
| Butch Davis | Miami | 1995–97 | Linebackers coach | |
| Jimmy Johnson | Miami Dolphins NFL | 1998–99 | Defensive assistant | |
| Dave Wannstedt | Miami Dolphins NFL | 2000 | Linebackers coach | |
| Larry Coker | Miami | 2001–06 | 2001–05: defensive coordinator; 2006: defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Gary Patterson | TCU | 2012 | Linebackers coach | |
| Bret Bielema | Arkansas | 2013–14 | Linebackers coach | |
| Jim McElwain | Florida | 2015–17 | 2015–16: assistant head coach, co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach; 2017: defensive coordinator | |
| Josh Heupel | UCF | 2018–20 | Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | |
| Mike Norvell | Florida State | 2021–24 | 2021: senior defensive analyst; 2022–24: co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach; 2024: interim defensive coordinator and linebackers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (5)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Nix | Miami, 2007–08: offensive coordinator | Henderson State | |
| Mark Whipple | Miami, 2009–10: assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Massachusetts, New Haven, Brown | |
| Brad Davis | Florida, 2017: offensive line coach | LSU | |
| Robb Akey | Florida, 2017: defensive assistant; 2017: interim defensive line | Idaho, Oregon State | |
| Tim Skipper | Florida, 2017: linebackers coach | Fresno State, UCLA, Cal Poly |
Other assistants under him (9)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Walton | Miami, 2007: defensive coordinator | |
| Bill Young | Miami, 2008: defensive coordinator | |
| John Lovett | Miami, 2009–10: defensive coordinator | |
| Bret Ingalls | Florida, 2017: offensive assistant | |
| Charlie Frye | Florida, 2017: director of player development | |
| Chris Rumph | Florida, 2017: co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach | |
| Doug Nussmeier | Florida, 2017: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | |
| Ja’Juan Seider | Florida, 2017: running backs coach | |
| Kevin Barbay | Florida, 2017: DPD |
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 | Florida | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $390,000 | $976,500 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Florida | co-defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $159,900 | $511,250 USA Today | |
| 2015 | Florida | co-defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $156,000 | $601,500 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
Shannon’s teams went for it on 21% of fourth downs and on 38% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 49% of plays and took 25.6 seconds a play, 2007–2010.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 12 g | 23 of 103 22% | 33% | 42% | 26.3 | −0.16 | |
| 2008 11 g | 15 of 87 17% | 42% | 52% | 27.0 | −0.11 | |
| 2009 13 g | 19 of 87 22% | 30% | 52% | 27.8 | 0.00 | |
| 2010 13 g | 20 of 95 21% | 47% | 49% | 21.4 | −0.06 | |
| All 49 g | 77 of 372 21% | 38% | 49% | 25.6 | −0.08 |
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.