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Ray Alborn

1978-1983 • Rice

One defining program at Rice.

Ray Alborn coached 6 seasons, won 19.7%, and posted an average SRS of -8.1. Best season: 1980 Rice. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 13-53
Career win rate: 19.7%
Average SRS: -8.1
Peak SRS: 4.4

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached: 6
Career span: 6 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: 24.2

Primary school anchor

Rice

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 45.5.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

Ray Alborn

EliteStrongAverageLean

1978Actual season year • SRS range -21.8 to 4.41983

Active comparison point

Ray Alborn • 1980

Selected

1980 Rice

Best seasonBiggest improvement

5-6 • SRS 4.4 • SP Overall 0.4

Win %

45.5%

YoY SRS

+12.0

SP Off / Def

21.3 / 20.9

Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Ranked opponent record

Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.

Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

0-24

Games: 24
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-14

Games: 14
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-7

Games: 7
Win rate: 0.0%

View ranked game results24


1983 Regular Week 11	Rice	SMU	#7	L6-20
1983 Regular Week 6	Rice	Texas	#2	L6-42
1982 Regular Week 10	Rice	SMU	#2	L14-41
1982 Regular Week 9	Rice	Arkansas	#5	L6-24
1982 Regular Week 5	Rice	Texas	#15	L7-34
1981 Regular Week 10	Rice	SMU	#10	L12-33
1981 Regular Week 9	Rice	Arkansas	#20	L7-41
1981 Regular Week 2	Rice	Texas	#8	L3-31
1980 Regular Week 12	Rice	Baylor	#11	L6-16
1980 Regular Week 11	Rice	SMU	#18	L14-34
1980 Regular Week 6	Rice	Texas	#3	L28-41
1979 Regular Week 14	Rice	Houston	#8	L0-63
1979 Regular Week 12	Rice	Baylor	#17	L14-45
1979 Regular Week 10	Rice	Arkansas	#9	L7-34
1979 Regular Week 6	Rice	Texas	#4	L9-26
1979 Regular Week 5	Rice	Oklahoma	#3	L21-63
1979 Regular Week 4	Rice	LSU	#20	L3-47
1979 Regular Week 2	Rice	SMU	#20	L17-35
1978 Regular Week 14	Rice	Houston	#9	L25-49
1978 Regular Week 10	Rice	Arkansas	#16	L7-37
1978 Regular Week 5	Rice	LSU	#11	L7-37
1978 Regular Week 4	Rice	Oklahoma	#1	L7-66
1978 Regular Week 3	Rice	Texas	#6	L0-34
1978 Regular Week 2	Rice	Iowa State	#19	L19-23

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Rice

1978-1983 • 6 seasons

Avg SRS -8.1 • Win % 19.7%

Longest tenure: Rice • 6 seasons
Best tenure: Rice • -8.1 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Rice • 19.7%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

Ray Alborn sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Ray Alborn sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Ray Alborn

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -11.6
Percentile: 23th pct

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Rice

1978-1983 • 13-53

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -8.1Win % 19.7%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.2 during vs 2.6 baseline

-0.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-8.1 during vs -3.8 baseline

-4.2

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-11.6 during vs -8.3 baseline

-3.3

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Rice 1980

5-6 • SRS 4.4

Biggest Improvement

Rice 1980

5-6 • 12.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Rice 1978

2-9 • SP Off 29.6

Best Defensive Season

Rice 1980

5-6 • SP Def 20.9

Setbacks

Worst Season

Rice 1983

1-10 • SRS -21.8

Biggest Drop

Rice 1982

0-11 • -12.1 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.


Rice	1983	11	1	10	9.1%	—	—	-21.8	-28.1	10.6	36.3	-5.5	+9.1%
Rice	1982	11	0	11	0.0%	—	—	-16.3	-18.9	18.6	35.7	-12.1	-36.4%
Rice	1981	11	4	7	36.4%	—	—	-4.2	-9.0	25.7	33.5	-8.6	-9.1%
Rice	1980	11	5	6	45.5%	—	—	4.4	0.4	21.3	20.9	+12.0	+36.4%
Rice	1979	11	1	10	9.1%	—	—	-7.6	-9.4	26.2	33.9	-4.7	-9.1%
Rice	1978	11	2	9	18.2%	—	—	-2.9	-4.4	29.6	33.7	—	—

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 8.2

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