Tracy Claeys
Tracy Claeys went 11–8 as a head coach, 2015–2016, at Minnesota. Share
- Record
- 11–8 career
- Seasons
- 2
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Dec 25, 1968
- Alma mater
- Kansas State 1994
- Best season
- 2016 9–4
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Minnesota remainder of season | 2–4 | T–5th (West) | Quick Lane Bowl W | ||
| 2016 | Minnesota | 9–4 | T–4th (West) | Holiday Bowl W |
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 | 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 7 | 0–7 | 0% |
| Conference games | 14 | 6–8 | 43% |
| Bowls and playoffs | 2 | 2–0 | 100% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 10 | 5–5 | 50% |
| At home | 10 | 7–3 | 70% |
| On the road | 7 | 2–5 | 29% |
| At neutral sites | 2 | 2–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 8 | 8–0 | 100% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 11 | 3–8 | 27% |
His own 19 games on file, 2015–2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Illinoisseries | 2 | 2–0 |
| Wisconsinseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Iowaseries | 2 | 0–2 |
| Colorado Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Northwesternseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Marylandseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Rutgersseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Oregon Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Santa Fe Trail HS (KS) high school | Co-defensive coordinator | |
| 1995–98 | Saginaw Valley State | Defensive line coach | |
| 1999–2000 | Emporia State | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2001–07 | Southern Illinois | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2008–10 | Northern Illinois | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2011–13 | Minnesota | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2014–15 | Minnesota | Assistant head coach and defensive coordinator | |
| 2015 | Minnesota | Interim head coach | |
| 2016 | Minnesota | Head coach | |
| 2018–19 | Washington State | Defensive coordinator | |
| 2020 | Virginia Tech | Linebackers coach |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Jerry KillSaginaw Valley State, Emporia State, Southern Illinois, Northern Illinois, Minnesota
- Tom MatukewiczNorthern Illinois
- Mike LeachWashington State
- Justin FuenteVirginia Tech
Assistants who became head coaches
- Jay SawvelWyoming
- Jim ZebrowskiLakeland
Worked under (4)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry Kill | Saginaw Valley State | 1995–98 | Defensive line coach | |
| Jerry Kill | Emporia State | 1999–2000 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Jerry Kill | Southern Illinois | 2001–07 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Jerry Kill | Northern Illinois | 2008–10 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Tom Matukewicz | Northern Illinois | 2010 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Jerry Kill | Minnesota | 2011–15 | 2011–13: defensive coordinator; 2014–15: assistant head coach and defensive coordinator | |
| Mike Leach | Washington State | 2018–19 | Defensive coordinator | |
| Justin Fuente | Virginia Tech | 2020 | Linebackers coach |
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Sawvel | Minnesota, 2015: defensive backs and special teams coach; 2016: defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach | Wyoming | |
| Jim Zebrowski | Minnesota, 2015: quarterbacks coach | Lakeland |
Other assistants under him (2)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Limegrover | Minnesota, 2015: assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and offensive line coach | |
| Jay Johnson | Minnesota, 2016: offensive coordinator and 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
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Minnesota | head coachbonuses up to $1,250,000; $157,942 in bonuses paid | $1,400,000 USA Today | |
| 2015 | Minnesota | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $164,000 | $616,000 USA Today | |
| 2014 | Minnesota | defensive coordinatorbonuses up to $160,000 | $600,000 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.
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
Claeys’s teams went for it on 9% of fourth downs and on 23% of those where the model said go for it, passed on 39% of plays and took 26.9 seconds a play, in 2016.
| Season | Went for it on fourth | When the model said go | Pass rate | Seconds a play | EPA a play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 13 g | 10 of 108 9% | 23% | 39% | 26.9 | −0.02 |
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.