Robbie Caldwell, head coach at Vanderbilt
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Robbie Caldwell

Robbie Caldwell went 2–⁠10 as a head coach, 2010, at Vanderbilt.

Record
2–⁠10 career
Seasons
1
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2010 2–⁠10

Season by season

SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2010Vanderbilt2–⁠106th (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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams30–⁠3
Against rivals41–⁠3
Conference games81–⁠7
Decided by 8 points or fewer10–⁠1
At home71–⁠6
On the road51–⁠4
As our Elo’s favorite21–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog101–⁠9

His own 12 games on file, 2010, 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

OpponentGamesRecord
Ole Missseries11–⁠0
Eastern Michiganseries11–⁠0
Arkansasseries10–⁠1
UConnseries10–⁠1
Floridaseries10–⁠1
Georgiaseries10–⁠1
Northwesternseries10–⁠1
Kentuckyseries10–⁠1

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
1978–⁠85FurmanOffensive line coach
1986–⁠99NC StateOffensive line coach
2000–⁠01North CarolinaOffensive line coach
2002–⁠09VanderbiltOffensive line coach
2010VanderbiltHead coach
2011–⁠21ClemsonOffensive line coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Robbie Caldwell

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (6)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Dick SheridanFurman1978–⁠85Offensive line coach
Dick SheridanNC State1986–⁠92Offensive line coach
Mike O’CainNC State1993–⁠99Offensive line coach
Carl TorbushNorth Carolina2000Offensive line coach
John BuntingNorth Carolina2001Offensive line coach
Bobby JohnsonVanderbilt2002–⁠09Offensive line coach
Dabo SwinneyClemson2011–⁠21Offensive line coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bruce FowlerVanderbilt, 2010: defensive coordinatorFurman
Ted CainVanderbilt, 2010: special teams and tight ends coachVMI
Other assistants under him (4)
CoachWith him
Desmond KitchingsVanderbilt, 2010: co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach
Herb HandVanderbilt, 2010: offensive line coach
Jamie BryantVanderbilt, 2010: defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach
Jimmy KiserVanderbilt, 2010: 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.

How he coached

Caldwell’s teams went for it on 16% of fourth downs and on 30% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 51% of plays and took 18.9 seconds a play, in 2010.

SeasonWent for it on fourthWhen the model said goPass rateSeconds a playEPA a play
2010 12 g19 of 121 16%30%51%18.9−0.27

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.