Top 25
7-31
- Games
- 38
- Win rate
- 18.4%
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Walt Harris
1989-2006 • Pacific, Pittsburgh, Stanford
3 schools coached, anchored by Pittsburgh.
Walt Harris coached 13 seasons, won 44.8%, and posted an average SRS of -2.1. Best season: 2002 Pittsburgh. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 69-85
- Career win rate
- 44.8%
- Average SRS
- -2.1
- 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
- 13
- Career span
- 18 years
- Best finish
- #19
- Consistency
- 17.2
Primary school anchor
Pittsburgh
Offense-First profile with 3 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.
Walt Harris
EliteStrongAverageLean
Walt Harris: 1997 PittsburghWalt Harris: 2005 Stanford
1989Actual season year • SRS range -20.3 to 10.52006
Active comparison point
Walt Harris • 2002
2002 Pittsburgh
Best season9-4 • SRS 10.5 • SP Overall 14.5
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+3.1
SP Off / Def
32.7 / 19.2
Finish
#19
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
2-17
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 10.5%
Top 5
2-10
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 16.7%
View ranked game results38
| 2006 Regular Week 14 | Stanford | California | #21 | L17-26 |
| 2006 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #9 | L0-42 |
| 2006 Regular Week 6 | Stanford | Notre Dame | #12 | L10-31 |
| 2006 Regular Week 1 | Stanford | Oregon | #21 | L10-48 |
| 2005 Regular Week 13 | Stanford | Notre Dame | #6 | L31-38 |
| 2005 Regular Week 10 | Stanford | USC | #1 | L21-51 |
| 2005 Regular Week 9 | Stanford | UCLA | #8 | L27-30 |
| 2004 Regular Week 14 | Pittsburgh | West Virginia | #21 | W16-13 |
| 2004 Regular Week 12 | Pittsburgh | Notre Dame | #24 | W41-38 |
| 2004 Postseason Week 1 | Pittsburgh | Utah | #4 | L7-35 |
| 2003 Regular Week 15 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #10 | L14-28 |
| 2003 Regular Week 12 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #5 | W31-28 |
| 2002 Regular Week 15 | Pittsburgh | West Virginia | #24 | L17-24 |
| 2002 Regular Week 14 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #1 | L21-28 |
| 2002 Regular Week 11 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #3 | W28-21 |
| 2002 Regular Week 8 | Pittsburgh | Notre Dame | #8 | L6-14 |
| 2002 Regular Week 3 | Pittsburgh | Texas A&M | #20 | L12-14 |
| 2001 Regular Week 11 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #12 | W38-7 |
| 2001 Regular Week 6 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #1 | L21-43 |
| 2000 Regular Week 12 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #2 | L7-35 |
| 2000 Regular Week 10 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #2 | L34-37 |
| 2000 Postseason Week 1 | Pittsburgh | Iowa State | #25 | L29-37 |
| 1999 Regular Week 11 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #22 | L3-33 |
| 1999 Regular Week 10 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #3 | L17-30 |
| 1999 Regular Week 7 | Pittsburgh | Syracuse | #18 | L17-24 |
| 1999 Regular Week 3 | Pittsburgh | Penn State | #2 | L17-20 |
| 1998 Regular Week 13 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #19 | L10-38 |
| 1998 Regular Week 10 | Pittsburgh | Syracuse | #15 | L28-45 |
| 1998 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #19 | L7-27 |
| 1998 Regular Week 4 | Pittsburgh | Penn State | #7 | L13-20 |
| 1997 Regular Week 14 | Pittsburgh | Virginia Tech | #19 | W30-23 |
| 1997 Regular Week 13 | Pittsburgh | Syracuse | #21 | L27-32 |
| 1997 Regular Week 5 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #22 | W21-17 |
| 1997 Regular Week 3 | Pittsburgh | Penn State | #1 | L17-34 |
| 1997 Postseason Week 1 | Pittsburgh | Southern Miss | #19 | L7-41 |
| 1990 Regular Week 2 | Pacific | Tennessee | #8 | L7-55 |
| 1989 Regular Week 9 | Pacific | Arizona | #17 | L14-38 |
| 1989 Regular Week 2 | Pacific | Auburn | #5 | L0-55 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Stanford
2005-2006 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -3.0 • Win % 26.1%
Pittsburgh
1997-2004 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 2.9 • Win % 54.2%
Pacific
1989-1991 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -14.9 • Win % 31.4%
- Longest tenure
- Pittsburgh • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Pittsburgh • 2.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Pittsburgh • 54.2%
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.
Walt Harris sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeWalt Harris sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Walt Harris
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -1.2
- Percentile
- 53th pct
Mixed
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.
Stanford
2005-2006 • 6-17
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.0Win % 26.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 4.8 baseline
-1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.0 during vs 3.4 baseline
-6.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.8 during vs 5.4 baseline
-12.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Pittsburgh
1997-2004 • 52-44
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.9Win % 54.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.5 during vs 2.7 baseline
+3.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.9 during vs -8.0 baseline
+10.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.2 during vs -8.2 baseline
+13.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+25.0%
Pacific
1989-1991 • 11-24
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -14.9Win % 31.4%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Pittsburgh 2002
9-4 • SRS 10.5
Biggest Improvement
Pittsburgh 1999
5-6 • 7.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Pacific 1991
5-7 • SP Off 40.8
Best Defensive Season
Pittsburgh 2002
9-4 • SP Def 19.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
Pacific 1989
2-10 • SRS -20.3
Biggest Drop
Stanford 2006
1-11 • -15.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Stanford | 2006 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 8.3% | — | — | -10.7 | -14.1 | 14.8 | 27.6 | -15.5 | -37.1% |
| Stanford | 2005 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 4.8 | 0.6 | 26.4 | 25.7 | +1.4 | -21.2% |
| Pittsburgh | 2004 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #25 | 3.4 | 6.4 | 32.1 | 27.4 | -4.1 | +5.1% |
| Pittsburgh | 2003 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #10 | — | 7.5 | 11.0 | 37.6 | 28.5 | -3.0 | -7.7% |
| Pittsburgh | 2002 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #19 | 10.5 | 14.5 | 32.7 | 19.2 | +3.1 | +10.9% |
| Pittsburgh | 2001 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 7.4 | 12.0 | 33.5 | 22.8 | +1.9 | 0.0% |
| Pittsburgh | 2000 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 5.5 | 9.6 | 31.5 | 23.3 | +4.3 | +12.9% |
| Pittsburgh | 1999 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 1.2 | 2.8 | 32.1 | 30.4 | +7.1 | +27.3% |
| Pittsburgh | 1998 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -5.9 | -8.0 | 25.7 | 33.1 | +0.5 | -31.8% |
| Pittsburgh | 1997 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -6.4 | -6.7 | 32.3 | 37.2 | +4.0 | +8.3% |
| Pacific | 1991 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -10.4 | -9.7 | 40.8 | 45.6 | +3.7 | +5.3% |
| Pacific | 1990 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -14.1 | -13.3 | 36.2 | 43.5 | +6.2 | +19.7% |
| Pacific | 1989 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -20.3 | -20.2 | 20.0 | 38.0 | — | — |
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