Bob Toledo
![]() Toledo coaches Tulane in 2007. | |
Biographical details | |
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Born | San Jose, California, U.S. | March 4, 1946
Playing career | |
1964 | San Jose State |
1965 | San Jose CC |
1966–1967 | San Francisco State |
Position(s) | San Diego State (OC) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 93–108 (college) |
Bowls | 1–2 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1998) | |
Robert Anthony Toledo (born March 4, 1946) is an American former college football coach and player. Toledo served as the head coach at University of California, Riverside (1974–1975), the University of the Pacific (1979–1982), the University of California, Los Angeles (1996–2002), and Tulane University (2007–2011). He resigned as head football coach at Tulane on October 18, 2011. On January 10, 2013, he was named offensive coordinator at San Diego State University.[1] Toledo retired from coaching after the 2014 season.
Playing career
Toledo played football at Lincoln High School in San Jose, California. He was the starting quarterback from 1961 to 1963. Toledo played for San Jose State during the 1964 season. In 1965, Toledo transferred to San Jose City College, where he was the starting quarterback and was a junior college All-American. Toledo was the starting quarterback for the San Francisco State Gators during the 1966 and 1967 seasons. While at SFSU, the team went 16–5 and played in the 1967 Camellia Bowl, a defeat against Don Coryell's San Diego State Aztecs. Toledo graduated from San Francisco State in 1968 and then tried out for the San Francisco 49ers.
Coaching career
Prior to coaching at the
UCLA
In 1996, his first season as head coach with UCLA, the team finished with a mediocre 5–6 record. The highlight of the season was a comeback win over USC.
The 1997 team finished as co-champions of the Pacific-10 Conference with Washington State. However, with Washington State defeating the Bruins in the season opener, the Cougars earned the right to play in the Rose Bowl. The highlights of that season were a 66–3 win over the University of Texas and a victory at the Cotton Bowl Classic over Texas A&M, and a victory over USC.
The
The 1999 season was a major disappointment, with the team finishing 4–7. This was the first year that USC had defeated them in the annual Battle for the Victory Bell since 1990. The year also had the dubious distinction of a 55–7 loss to Pac-10 foe Oregon State, the worst defeat of the Bruins in 69 years.
In 2000, the Bruins finished 6–6 with a loss in the Sun Bowl, again against Wisconsin.
The 2001 season started with promise as the Bruins got off to a fast start with a 6–0 record. However, four straight losses to Stanford, Washington State, Oregon, and USC, the Bruins faded out of postseason contention.
UCLA finished off 8–5 in Toledo's final season in 2002. The team finished 7–5 in the regular season, but Toledo was fired after a fourth straight loss to USC. The Bruins did reach the Las Vegas Bowl, but interim coach Ed Kezirian coached—and won—his only game in charge of the program.
Toledo was the head coach at UCLA for seven years from 1996 to 2002. He finished with a record of 49 wins and 32 losses, for a
New Mexico
In 2006, Toledo returned to college football after a three-year absence becoming the offensive coordinator of the University of New Mexico Lobos, under head coach Rocky Long who had previously been Toledo's defensive coordinator at UCLA for the 1996 and 1997 seasons. In addition to being the offensive coordinator, Toledo was also the associate head coach and quarterbacks coach.
Tulane
In December 2006, Toledo was named the new head football coach at Tulane, replacing Chris Scelfo. The team finished with a record of four wins and eight losses in Toledo's first season as coach. His first year also saw the development of Matt Forte, who came off a knee injury to rush for 2,127 yards and 23 touchdowns.
Toledo resigned as head football coach at Tulane on October 18, 2011, and was replaced on an interim basis by co-offensive coordinator Mark Hutson.
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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UC Riverside Highlanders (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (1974–1975) | |||||||||
1974 | UC Riverside | 8–3 | 4–0[3] | 1st | |||||
1975 | UC Riverside | 7–3 | 4–0[4] | 1st | |||||
UC Riverside: | 15–6 | 8–0 | |||||||
Pacific Tigers (Pacific Coast Athletic Association) (1979–1982) | |||||||||
1979 | Pacific | 3–7 | 0–5 | 6th | |||||
1980 | Pacific | 4–8 | 1–4 | T–4th | |||||
1981 | Pacific | 5–6 | 2–3 | T–3rd | |||||
1982 | Pacific | 2–9 | 2–4 | 5th | |||||
Pacific: | 14–30 | 5–15 | |||||||
Pacific-10 Conference ) (1996–2002)
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1996 | UCLA | 5–6 | 4–4 | 4th | |||||
1997 | UCLA | 10–2 | 7–1 | T–1st | W Cotton | 5 | 5 | ||
1998 | UCLA | 10–2 | 8–0 | 1st | L Rose† | 8 | 8 | ||
1999 | UCLA | 4–7 | 2–6 | 9th | |||||
2000 | UCLA | 6–6 | 3–5 | T–5th | L Sun | ||||
2001 | UCLA | 7–4 | 4–4 | 6th | |||||
2002 | UCLA | 7–5 | 4–4 | T–4th | Las Vegas1 | ||||
UCLA: | 49–32 | 32–24 | |||||||
Tulane Green Wave (Conference USA) (2007–2011) | |||||||||
2007 | Tulane | 4–8 | 3–5 | 3rd (West) | |||||
2008 | Tulane | 2–10 | 1–7 | 5th (West) | |||||
2009 | Tulane | 3–9 | 1–7 | 6th (West) | |||||
2010 | Tulane | 4–8 | 2–6 | 6th (West) | |||||
2011 | Tulane | 2–52 | 1–2 | ||||||
Tulane: | 15–40 | 7–25 | |||||||
Total: | 93–108 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
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References
- ^ "Football Names Bob Toledo Offensive Coordinator". San Diego State University Athletics. January 10, 2013. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
- ^ Conrad, John (January 8, 1983). "Ex-UOP coach to run Duck offense". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1B.
- ^ "Final 1974 Cumulative Football Statistics Report" (PDF). ncaa.org. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ "Final 1975 Cumulative Football Statistics Report" (PDF). ncaa.org. Retrieved 18 April 2024.