Top 25
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
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Coach Profile
Bob Pruett
1997-2004 • Marshall
One defining program at Marshall.
Bob Pruett's coaching record is 79-23, highlighted by seasons at Marshall from 1997 to 2004.
Bob Pruett coached 8 seasons, won 77.5%, and posted an average SRS of 3.5. Best season: 1999 Marshall. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 79-23
- Career win rate
- 77.5%
- Average SRS
- 3.5
- Peak SRS
- 14.4
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- #10
- Consistency
- 61.2
Primary school anchor
Marshall
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.3.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 79-23
- Marshall record
- 79-23
- Full-season record
- 79-23
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Ohio
- 7-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 9-2
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
102 countable games, 77.5% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Marshall.
8 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle for the Bell games in this dataset.
11 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
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: Dec 23, 2004. 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.
Bob Pruett
EliteStrongAverageLean
1997Actual season year • SRS range -4.0 to 14.42004
Active comparison point
Bob Pruett • 1999
1999 Marshall
Best seasonBiggest improvement13-0 • SRS 14.4 • SP Overall 21.0
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+14.0
SP Off / Def
36.5 / 16.9
Finish
#10
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
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results9
| 2004 Regular Week 4 | Marshall | Georgia | #3 | L3-13 |
| 2004 Regular Week 3 | Marshall | Ohio State | #9 | L21-24 |
| 2003 Regular Week 13 | Marshall | Miami (OH) | #23 | L6-45 |
| 2003 Regular Week 5 | Marshall | Kansas State | #6 | W27-20 |
| 2003 Regular Week 3 | Marshall | Tennessee | #12 | L24-34 |
| 2002 Regular Week 4 | Marshall | Virginia Tech | #11 | L21-47 |
| 2001 Regular Week 2 | Marshall | Florida | #1 | L14-49 |
| 2000 Regular Week 3 | Marshall | Michigan State | #24 | L24-34 |
| 1997 Postseason Week 1 | Marshall | Ole Miss | #22 | L31-34 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Marshall
1997-2004 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 3.5 • Win % 77.5%
- Longest tenure
- Marshall • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Marshall • 3.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Marshall • 77.5%
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.
Bob Pruett sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBob Pruett sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bob Pruett
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.1
- Percentile
- 83th pct
Strong
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.
Marshall
1997-2004 • 79-23
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 3.5Win % 77.5%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Marshall 1999
13-0 • SRS 14.4
Biggest Improvement
Marshall 1999
13-0 • 14.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Marshall 2001
11-2 • SP Off 46.6
Best Defensive Season
Marshall 1999
13-0 • SP Def 16.9
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Marshall 2004
6-6 • SRS -4.0
Biggest Drop
Marshall 2000
8-5 • -16.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Marshall | 2004 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.0 | 1.2 | 28.8 | 28.1 | -5.9 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 2003 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 1.9 | 5.4 | 33.2 | 29.5 | +1.8 | -17.9% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 2002 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #19 | #24 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 35.9 | 35.4 | -6.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 2001 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | — | — | 7.0 | 15.4 | 46.6 | 34.9 | +9.0 | +23.1% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 2000 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -2.0 | 4.0 | 31.9 | 29.0 | -16.4 | -38.5% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 1999 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #10 | 14.4 | 21.0 | 36.5 | 16.9 | +14.0 | +7.7% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 1998 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | — | 0.4 | 8.3 | 32.9 | 26.3 | -9.9 | +15.4% | Season summary |
| Marshall | 1997 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 10.3 | 16.8 | 41.7 | 28.1 | — | — | Season summary |
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