Tony Levine
Tony Levine went 21–17 as a head coach, 2011–2014, at Houston. Share
- Record
- 21–17 career
- Seasons
- 4
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Best season
- 2011 13–1, No. 18
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Houston interim, bowl game | 1–0 | TicketCity Bowl W | 18 | ||
| 2012 | Houston | 5–7 | T–3rd (West) | |||
| 2013 | Houston | 8–5 | 4th | BBVA Compass Bowl L | ||
| 2014 | Houston | 7–5 | T–4th | Armed Forces (not coached) |
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
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 | 5 | 1–4 | 20% |
| Against rivals | 5 | 4–1 | 80% |
| Conference games | 24 | 14–10 | 58% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 12 | 2–10 | 17% |
| At home | 20 | 12–8 | 60% |
| On the road | 14 | 6–8 | 43% |
| At neutral sites | 4 | 3–1 | 75% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 25 | 18–7 | 72% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 13 | 3–10 | 23% |
His own 38 games on file, 2011–2014, 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
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| SMUseries | 3 | 2–1 |
| South Floridaseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Templeseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Memphisseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Riceseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Tulsaseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| UTSAseries | 2 | 1–1 |
| Tulaneseries | 2 | 1–1 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Highland Park HS (MN) high school | Freshman coach | |
| 1997–99 | Texas State | Wide receivers and tight ends coach | |
| 2000–01 | Auburn | Graduate assistant | |
| 2002 | Louisiana Tech | Special teams and tight ends coach | |
| 2003 | Louisville | Football ops | |
| 2004–05 | Louisville | Special teams and outside linebackers coach | |
| 2006–07 | Carolina Panthers NFL | Assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant special teams | |
| 2008–11 | Houston | Special teams and tight ends coach and outside wide receivers | |
| 2011–14 | Houston | Head coach | |
| 2016 | Western Kentucky | Special teams and tight ends coach | |
| 2017 | Purdue | Co-offensive coordinator and special teams and tight ends coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Bob DeBesseTexas State
- Tommy TubervilleAuburn
- Jack Bicknell Jr.Louisiana Tech
- Bobby PetrinoLouisville
- John FoxCarolina Panthers
- Kevin SumlinHouston
- Nick HoltWestern Kentucky
- Jeff BrohmWestern Kentucky, Purdue
Assistants who became head coaches
- Clarence McKinneyTexas Southern
- Eric MorrisNorth Texas, Oklahoma State, Incarnate Word
- Jason PhillipsHouston, Texas State, Baylor, SMU, Kansas, Oregon State, Utah State, Jackson State, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Colorado
- Kliff KingsburyTexas Tech, Arizona Cardinals
- Leon BurtnettPurdue
- Lee HaysSul Ross
- Mike NesbittWest Texas A&M, OUAZ
- Travis BushUT Rio Grande Valley
- David GibbsHouston
- Doug MeachamOklahoma State
Worked under (8)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob DeBesse | Texas State | 1997–99 | Wide receivers and tight ends coach | |
| Tommy Tuberville | Auburn | 2000–01 | Graduate assistant | |
| Jack Bicknell Jr. | Louisiana Tech | 2002 | Special teams and tight ends coach | |
| Bobby Petrino | Louisville | 2003–05 | 2003: football ops; 2004–05: special teams and outside linebackers coach | |
| John Fox | Carolina Panthers NFL | 2006–07 | Assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant special teams | |
| Kevin Sumlin | Houston | 2008–11 | Special teams and tight ends coach and outside wide receivers | |
| Nick Holt | Western Kentucky | 2016 | Special teams and tight ends coach | |
| Jeff Brohm | Western Kentucky | 2016 | Special teams and tight ends coach | |
| Jeff Brohm | Purdue | 2017 | Co-offensive coordinator and special teams and tight ends coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (10)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarence McKinney | Houston, 2011: running backs coach and recruiting coordinator | Texas Southern | |
| Eric Morris | Houston, 2011: graduate assistant | North Texas, Oklahoma State, Incarnate Word | |
| Jason Phillips | Houston, 2011: co-offensive coordinator | Houston, Texas State, Baylor, SMU, Kansas, Oregon State, Utah State, Jackson State, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Colorado | |
| Kliff Kingsbury | Houston, 2011: co-offensive coordinator | Texas Tech, Arizona Cardinals | |
| Leon Burtnett | Houston, 2011: director of player personnel and quality control coach | Purdue | |
| Lee Hays | Houston, 2012: offensive line coach | Sul Ross | |
| Mike Nesbitt | Houston, 2012: offensive coordinator | West Texas A&M, OUAZ | |
| Travis Bush | Houston, 2012: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; 2013: assistant head coach, co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach; 2014: assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | UT Rio Grande Valley | |
| David Gibbs | Houston, 2013–14: defensive coordinator | Houston | |
| Doug Meacham | Houston, 2013: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach | Oklahoma State |
Other assistants under him (3)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Stewart | Houston, 2011: defensive coordinator | |
| Jamie Bryant | Houston, 2011: linebackers coach; 2012: defensive coordinator | |
| Brian Odom | Houston, 2012–14: co-DSP |
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 | Purdue | co-offensive coordinator | $500,000 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Western Kentucky | co-offensive coordinator | $50,004 USA Today | |
| 2014 | Houston | head coachbonuses up to $422,500 | $1,025,300 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
Levine’s teams went for it on 20% of fourth downs and on 33% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 56% of plays and took 20.1 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 | 25 of 108 23% | 36% | 62% | 15.4 | −0.03 | |
| 2013 13 g | 16 of 112 14% | 21% | 56% | 20.7 | 0.00 | |
| 2014 13 g | 23 of 99 23% | 44% | 51% | 23.8 | +0.04 | |
| All 38 g | 64 of 319 20% | 33% | 56% | 20.1 | 0.00 |
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.