Top 25
5-8
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 38.5%
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Coach Profile
Blair Cherry
1947-1950 • Texas
One defining program at Texas.
Blair Cherry coached 4 seasons, won 75.6%, and posted an average SRS of 21.9. Best season: 1947 Texas. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 32-10-1
- Career win rate
- 75.6%
- Average SRS
- 21.9
- Peak SRS
- 30.7
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- #3
- Consistency
- 67.5
Primary school anchor
Texas
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 97.1.
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.
Blair Cherry
EliteStrongAverageLean
1947Actual season year • SRS range 15.3 to 30.71950
Active comparison point
Blair Cherry • 1947
1947 Texas
Best season10-1 • SRS 30.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
90.9%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#5
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.
Top 10
3-7
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 30.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results13
| 1950 Regular Week 8 | Texas | SMU | #14 | W23-20 |
| 1950 Regular Week 5 | Texas | Oklahoma | #3 | L13-14 |
| 1950 Regular Week 3 | Texas | Purdue | #9 | W34-26 |
| 1950 Postseason Week 1 | Texas | Tennessee | #4 | L14-20 |
| 1949 Regular Week 7 | Texas | Rice | #6 | L15-17 |
| 1949 Regular Week 5 | Texas | Oklahoma | #3 | L14-20 |
| 1948 Regular Week 8 | Texas | SMU | #8 | L6-21 |
| 1948 Regular Week 5 | Texas | Oklahoma | #15 | L14-20 |
| 1948 Regular Week 3 | Texas | North Carolina | #3 | L7-34 |
| 1948 Postseason Week 1 | Texas | Georgia | #8 | W41-28 |
| 1947 Regular Week 8 | Texas | SMU | #3 | L13-14 |
| 1947 Regular Week 7 | Texas | Rice | #20 | W12-0 |
| 1947 Postseason Week 1 | Texas | Alabama | #6 | W27-7 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Texas
1947-1950 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 21.9 • Win % 75.6%
- Longest tenure
- Texas • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Texas • 21.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Texas • 75.6%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Blair Cherry
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Texas
1947-1950 • 32-10-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 21.9Win % 75.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.0 during vs 7.8 baseline
+0.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
21.9 during vs 13.9 baseline
+8.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-30.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Texas 1947
10-1 • SRS 30.7
Biggest Improvement
Texas 1949
6-4 • 5.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Texas 1948
7-3-1 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Drop
Texas 1948
7-3-1 • -15.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Texas | 1950 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | #5 | #3 | 20.6 | — | — | — | -0.6 | +21.8% |
| Texas | 1949 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 21.2 | — | — | — | +5.9 | -8.2% |
| Texas | 1948 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | 15.3 | — | — | — | -15.4 | -22.7% |
| Texas | 1947 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #5 | 30.7 | — | — | — | — | — |
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