Todd Monken, head coach at Southern Miss
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Todd Monken

Todd Monken went 13–⁠25 as a head coach, 2013–⁠2015, at Southern Miss.

Record
13–⁠25 career
Seasons
3
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
2015 9–⁠5

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1539 in 2015
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
2013Southern Miss1–⁠11T–5th (East)
2014Southern Miss3–⁠96th (West)
2015Southern Miss9–⁠51st (West)Heart of Dallas Bowl L

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 top-10 teams10–⁠1
Against rivals52–⁠3
Conference games249–⁠15
Bowls and playoffs10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer83–⁠5
At home177–⁠10
On the road206–⁠14
At neutral sites10–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite108–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog285–⁠23

His own 38 games on file, 2013–⁠2015, 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

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Dan McCarney 2013–⁠20152–⁠1North Texas3
Skip Holtz 2013–⁠20151–⁠2Louisiana Tech3
Doc Holliday 2013–⁠20150–⁠3Marshall3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
North Texasseries32–⁠1
Louisiana Techseries31–⁠2
Marshallseries30–⁠3
UABseries21–⁠1
Riceseries21–⁠1
Texas Stateseries21–⁠1
UTSAseries21–⁠1
UTEPseries21–⁠1

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
1989–⁠90Grand Valley StateGraduate assistant
1991–⁠92Notre DameGraduate assistant
2000–⁠01Louisiana TechRunning backs coach, wide receivers coach (2000) and wide receivers coach
2002–⁠04Oklahoma StatePassing game coordinator and wide receivers coach
2005–⁠06LSUPassing game coordinator and wide receivers coach
2007–⁠10Jacksonville Jaguars NFLWide receivers coach
2011–⁠12Oklahoma StateOffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
2013–⁠15Southern MissHead coach
2019Cleveland Browns NFLOffensive coordinator
2020–⁠22GeorgiaOffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
2023–⁠25Baltimore Ravens NFLOffensive coordinator
2026–presentCleveland Browns NFLHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Worked under

Todd Monken

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (9)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Tom BeckGrand Valley State1989–⁠90Graduate assistant
Lou HoltzNotre Dame1991–⁠92Graduate assistant
Rick RasnickEastern Michigan1998–⁠99Offensive coordinator
Tony LombardiEastern Michigan1999Offensive coordinator
Jack Bicknell Jr.Louisiana Tech2000–⁠01Running backs coach, wide receivers coach (2000) and wide receivers coach
Les MilesOklahoma State2002–⁠04Passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach
Les MilesLSU2005–⁠06Passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach
Mike GundyOklahoma State2011–⁠12Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
Freddie KitchensCleveland Browns NFL2019Offensive coordinator
Kirby SmartGeorgia2020–⁠22Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (4)
CoachWith himHead coach at
David DugganSouthern Miss, 2013–⁠15: defensive coordinator and linebackers coachCologne Centurions
Marcus ArroyoSouthern Miss, 2013: offensive coordinator and wide receivers coachUNLV, Arizona State
Chip LindseySouthern Miss, 2014–⁠15: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coachTroy
Pete GoldingSouthern Miss, 2014–⁠15: defensive backs coachOle Miss
Other assistants under him (5)
CoachWith him
Andrew ThackerSouthern Miss, 2013: safeties coach
Ephraim BandaCleveland Browns, 2026: defensive passing game coordinator
Jason TarverCleveland Browns, 2026: running game coordinator and linebackers coach
Kevin RogersCleveland Browns, 2026: senior offensive assistant and special projects
Mike BajakianCleveland Browns, 2026: 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 payState payroll
2022Georgiaoffensive coordinator$1,424,044
2021Georgiaoffensive coordinator$1,814,742
2020Georgiaoffensive coordinator$1,139,004
2015Southern Misshead coachbonuses up to $125,000; $15,000 in bonuses paid$700,000 USA Today
2014Southern Misshead coachbonuses up to $125,000$700,000 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.

Open Georgia (State of Georgia, unaudited): salary paid in the fiscal year from July to June, shown against the season inside it.

Contract pay and the state payroll differ by design: one is the season’s contract, the other what the state paid in a calendar or fiscal year, so a December hire’s short first year, bonuses and camp money paid as special payments, and pay that ran on after he left all show in the payroll.

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.