Top 25
3-21
- Games
- 24
- Win rate
- 12.5%
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Coach Profile
Bob Blackman
1953-1981 • Cornell, Dartmouth, Denver, Illinois
4 schools coached, anchored by Dartmouth.
Bob Blackman coached 29 seasons, won 60.5%, and posted an average SRS of -6.1. Best season: 1970 Dartmouth. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 4 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 164-106-7
- Career win rate
- 60.5%
- Average SRS
- -6.1
- Peak SRS
- 10.5
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
- 29
- Career span
- 29 years
- Best finish
- #14
- Consistency
- 15.5
Primary school anchor
Dartmouth
Defense-First profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 63.0.
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 Blackman
EliteStrongAverageLean
Bob Blackman: 1955 DartmouthBob Blackman: 1971 IllinoisBob Blackman: 1977 Cornell
1953Actual season year • SRS range -27.5 to 10.51981
Active comparison point
Bob Blackman • 1970
1970 Dartmouth
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-0 • SRS 10.5 • SP Overall 28.8
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+16.6
SP Off / Def
38.8 / 10.0
Finish
#14
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
0-14
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results24
| 1976 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Michigan | #4 | L7-38 |
| 1976 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Ohio State | #8 | L10-42 |
| 1976 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Texas A&M | #17 | L7-14 |
| 1975 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Michigan | #4 | L15-21 |
| 1975 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Ohio State | #1 | L3-40 |
| 1975 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Michigan State | #16 | W21-19 |
| 1975 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Texas A&M | #8 | L13-43 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | Missouri | #5 | L20-30 |
| 1974 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Michigan | #4 | L6-14 |
| 1974 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Ohio State | #1 | L7-49 |
| 1974 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | Stanford | #19 | W41-7 |
| 1973 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Michigan | #4 | L6-21 |
| 1973 Regular Week 10 | Illinois | Ohio State | #1 | L0-30 |
| 1973 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | West Virginia | #20 | L10-17 |
| 1972 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Michigan | #6 | L7-31 |
| 1972 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Ohio State | #4 | L7-26 |
| 1972 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Penn State | #16 | L17-35 |
| 1972 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Washington | #14 | L11-31 |
| 1972 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | USC | #1 | L20-55 |
| 1971 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Purdue | #17 | W21-7 |
| 1971 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Michigan | #3 | L6-35 |
| 1971 Regular Week 5 | Illinois | Ohio State | #15 | L10-24 |
| 1971 Regular Week 4 | Illinois | Washington | #15 | L14-52 |
| 1971 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | USC | #16 | L0-28 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Cornell
1977-1981 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -16.4 • Win % 41.5%
Illinois
1971-1976 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 5.8 • Win % 44.7%
Dartmouth
1955-1970 • 16 seasons
Avg SRS -7.0 • Win % 73.3%
Denver
1953-1954 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -8.6 • Win % 65.0%
- Longest tenure
- Dartmouth • 16 seasons
- Best tenure
- Illinois • 5.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Dartmouth • 73.3%
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 Blackman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBob Blackman sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bob Blackman
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.1
- Percentile
- 61th pct
Above average
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.
Cornell
1977-1981 • 19-27-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -16.4Win % 41.5%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Illinois
1971-1976 • 29-36-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.8Win % 44.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.8 during vs 2.4 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.8 during vs -3.6 baseline
+9.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.5 during vs -8.5 baseline
+11.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Dartmouth
1955-1970 • 104-37-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.0Win % 73.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 2.8 baseline
+3.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.0 during vs -7.4 baseline
+0.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
28.8 during vs — baseline
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Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
6.3% during vs 0.0% baseline
+6.3%
Denver
1953-1954 • 12-6-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -8.6Win % 65.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Dartmouth 1970
9-0 • SRS 10.5
Biggest Improvement
Dartmouth 1970
9-0 • 16.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Dartmouth 1970
9-0 • SP Off 38.8
Best Defensive Season
Dartmouth 1970
9-0 • SP Def 10.0
Setbacks
Worst Season
Cornell 1981
3-7 • SRS -27.5
Biggest Drop
Cornell 1977
1-8 • -24.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Cornell | 1981 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -27.5 | -21.1 | 14.5 | 34.4 | -14.1 | -20.0% |
| Cornell | 1980 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -13.4 | -1.6 | 20.4 | 22.2 | +1.4 | -5.6% |
| Cornell | 1979 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -14.8 | 6.0 | 29.5 | 25.0 | -4.2 | -5.6% |
| Cornell | 1978 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | -10.6 | -2.7 | 22.9 | 25.5 | +5.3 | +50.0% |
| Cornell | 1977 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.1% | — | — | -15.9 | -12.1 | 13.0 | 24.1 | -24.3 | -34.3% |
| Illinois | 1976 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 8.4 | 6.8 | 29.5 | 24.1 | +3.6 | 0.0% |
| Illinois | 1975 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 4.8 | 1.2 | 27.8 | 27.1 | -1.2 | -13.6% |
| Illinois | 1974 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 6.0 | 0.4 | 23.2 | 22.7 | -3.0 | +13.6% |
| Illinois | 1973 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 9.0 | 2.6 | 17.8 | 15.6 | +5.9 | +18.2% |
| Illinois | 1972 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 3.1 | 1.9 | 27.1 | 25.8 | -0.4 | -18.2% |
| Illinois | 1971 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 3.5 | 2.4 | 22.9 | 20.6 | -7.0 | -54.5% |
| Dartmouth | 1970 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #14 | 10.5 | 28.8 | 38.8 | 10.0 | +16.6 | +11.1% |
| Dartmouth | 1969 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | -6.1 | — | — | — | +14.0 | +44.4% |
| Dartmouth | 1968 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -20.1 | — | — | — | -8.7 | -33.3% |
| Dartmouth | 1967 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -11.4 | — | — | — | -12.1 | 0.0% |
| Dartmouth | 1966 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 0.7 | — | — | — | -6.1 | -22.2% |
| Dartmouth | 1965 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 6.8 | — | — | — | +13.7 | +33.3% |
| Dartmouth | 1964 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -6.9 | — | — | — | -7.5 | -11.1% |
| Dartmouth | 1963 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 0.6 | — | — | — | +9.6 | -22.2% |
| Dartmouth | 1962 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | -9.0 | — | — | — | +0.9 | +33.3% |
| Dartmouth | 1961 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -9.9 | — | — | — | +2.2 | +11.1% |
| Dartmouth | 1960 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -12.1 | — | — | — | +3.7 | -5.6% |
| Dartmouth | 1959 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | -15.8 | — | — | — | -5.3 | -16.7% |
| Dartmouth | 1958 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | -10.5 | — | — | — | -4.1 | -5.6% |
| Dartmouth | 1957 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 83.3% | — | — | -6.4 | — | — | — | +3.1 | +22.2% |
| Dartmouth | 1956 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | -9.5 | — | — | — | +3.9 | +27.8% |
| Dartmouth | 1955 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -13.4 | — | — | — | -11.1 | -56.7% |
| Denver | 1954 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | -2.3 | — | — | — | +12.6 | +50.0% |
| Denver | 1953 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 40.0% | — | — | -14.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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