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Thomas Cahill
1966-1973 • Army
One defining program at Army.
Thomas Cahill coached 8 seasons, won 50.6%, and posted an average SRS of -1.2. Best season: 1968 Army. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 40-39-2
- Career win rate
- 50.6%
- Average SRS
- -1.2
- Peak SRS
- 14.6
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
- —
- Consistency
- 24.4
Primary school anchor
Army
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.5.
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.
Thomas Cahill
EliteStrongAverageLean
1966Actual season year • SRS range -18.5 to 14.61973
Active comparison point
Thomas Cahill • 1968
1968 Army
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-3 • SRS 14.6 • SP Overall —
Win %
70.0%
YoY SRS
+11.0
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.
Top 10
0-10
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results18
| 1973 Regular Week 12 | Army | Pittsburgh | #20 | L0-34 |
| 1973 Regular Week 8 | Army | Notre Dame | #8 | L3-62 |
| 1973 Regular Week 7 | Army | Penn State | #5 | L3-54 |
| 1973 Regular Week 4 | Army | Tennessee | #9 | L18-37 |
| 1972 Regular Week 9 | Army | Air Force | #19 | W17-14 |
| 1972 Regular Week 6 | Army | Penn State | #15 | L0-45 |
| 1972 Regular Week 3 | Army | Nebraska | #9 | L7-77 |
| 1971 Regular Week 5 | Army | Penn State | #9 | L0-42 |
| 1971 Regular Week 2 | Army | Stanford | #13 | L3-38 |
| 1970 Regular Week 7 | Army | Notre Dame | #3 | L10-51 |
| 1970 Regular Week 6 | Army | Tennessee | #14 | L3-48 |
| 1970 Regular Week 5 | Army | Nebraska | #6 | L0-28 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Army | Air Force | #19 | L6-13 |
| 1969 Regular Week 5 | Army | Notre Dame | #11 | L0-45 |
| 1968 Regular Week 8 | Army | Penn State | #4 | L24-28 |
| 1968 Regular Week 5 | Army | California | #16 | W10-7 |
| 1966 Regular Week 8 | Army | Tennessee | #10 | L7-38 |
| 1966 Regular Week 5 | Army | Notre Dame | #2 | L0-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Army
1966-1973 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS -1.2 • Win % 50.6%
- Longest tenure
- Army • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Army • -1.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Army • 50.6%
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.
Thomas Cahill sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeThomas Cahill sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Thomas Cahill
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -9.8
- Percentile
- 28th pct
Lower end
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.
Army
1966-1973 • 40-39-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.2Win % 50.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 5.4 baseline
-0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.2 during vs 3.9 baseline
-5.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-9.8 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
Army 1968
7-3 • SRS 14.6
Biggest Improvement
Army 1968
7-3 • 11.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Army 1972
6-4 • SP Off 25.7
Best Defensive Season
Army 1971
6-4 • SP Def 24.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Army 1973
0-10 • SRS -18.5
Biggest Drop
Army 1973
0-10 • -14.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Army | 1973 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -18.5 | -24.5 | 15.6 | 37.5 | -14.6 | -60.0% |
| Army | 1972 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -3.9 | -2.4 | 25.7 | 28.2 | -0.2 | 0.0% |
| Army | 1971 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -3.7 | -7.4 | 17.5 | 24.7 | +0.2 | +46.4% |
| Army | 1970 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 13.6% | — | — | -3.9 | -5.1 | 21.1 | 26.4 | -4.7 | -31.4% |
| Army | 1969 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 0.8 | — | — | — | -13.8 | -25.0% |
| Army | 1968 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 14.6 | — | — | — | +11.0 | -10.0% |
| Army | 1967 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 3.6 | — | — | — | +2.5 | 0.0% |
| Army | 1966 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 1.1 | — | — | — | — | — |
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