Yesterday, Georgia Tech hired Buster Faulkner as its new Offensive Coordinator. Ben offered a very detailed assessment of his past coaching stops that is well worth your time. Here, I wanted to offer some more summary metrics to try and quantify the impact that Faulkner has had in each of his most significant coaching roles.
We will take a look at PPA (an Expected Points metric from collegefootballdata.com), overall success rate, run stuff rate allowed, and passing success rate. Each of these numbers tends to be moderately to highly correlated year over year, so they help us to see the real impact a coordinator might be making, instead of just looking at something like yards or points per game that can be misleading because of big changes in offensive pace or situation.