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Coach Profile

Rod Rust

1967-1972 • North Texas

One defining program at North Texas.

Rod Rust coached 6 seasons, won 47.6%, and posted an average SRS of -5.6. Best season: 1967 North Texas. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 29-32-1
Career win rate: 47.6%
Average SRS: -5.6
Peak SRS: 11.9

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: 2.6

Primary school anchor

North Texas

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 66.2.

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Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Rod Rust

Overall record: 29-32-1
North Texas record: 29-32-1
Full-season record: 29-32-1
Vs AP Top 25: 0-3
Vs AP Top 10: 0-1
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Postseason / bowl record: 0-0
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

Record definition and data status

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.

Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 25, 1972. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

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.

Rod Rust

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1967Actual season year • SRS range -24.3 to 11.91972

Active comparison point

Rod Rust • 1967

Selected

1967 North Texas

Best season

7-1-1 • SRS 11.9 • SP Overall —

Win %

83.3%

YoY SRS

—

SP Off / Def

— / —

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

0-3

Games: 3
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

View ranked game results3


1972 Regular Week 8	North Texas	Arkansas	#18	L16-42
1971 Regular Week 7	North Texas	Arkansas	#9	L21-60
1968 Regular Week 7	North Texas	Arkansas	#16	L15-17

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

North Texas

1967-1972 • 6 seasons

Avg SRS -5.6 • Win % 47.6%

Longest tenure: North Texas • 6 seasons
Best tenure: North Texas • -5.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate: North Texas • 47.6%

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.

Rod Rust sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Rod Rust sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Rod Rust

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -16.8
Percentile: 11th 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.

North Texas

1967-1972 • 29-32-1

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

Avg SRS -5.6Win % 47.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.8 during vs 4.4 baseline

+0.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-5.6 during vs -8.5 baseline

+2.9

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-16.8 during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

North Texas 1967

7-1-1 • SRS 11.9

Biggest Improvement

North Texas 1969

7-3 • 1.3 SRS

Best Offensive Season

North Texas 1971

3-8 • SP Off 22.7

Best Defensive Season

North Texas 1970

3-8 • SP Def 27.3

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

North Texas 1972

1-10 • SRS -24.3

Biggest Drop

North Texas 1970

3-8 • -18.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


North Texas	1972	11	1	10	0	9.1%	—	—	-24.3	-23.5	16.7	37.4	-6.6	-18.2%	Season summary
North Texas	1971	11	3	8	0	27.3%	—	—	-17.7	-14.9	22.7	35.3	-4.5	0.0%	Season summary
North Texas	1970	11	3	8	0	27.3%	—	—	-13.2	-12.0	16.0	27.3	-18.7	-42.7%	Season summary
North Texas	1969	10	7	3	0	70.0%	—	—	5.5	—	—	—	+1.3	-10.0%	Season summary
North Texas	1968	10	8	2	0	80.0%	—	—	4.2	—	—	—	-7.7	-3.3%	Season summary
North Texas	1967	9	7	1	1	83.3%	—	—	11.9	—	—	—	—	—	Season summary