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2-12
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 14.3%
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Coach Profile
Rick Minter
1994-2003 • Cincinnati
One defining program at Cincinnati.
Rick Minter's coaching record is 53-63-1, highlighted by seasons at Cincinnati from 1994 to 2003.
Rick Minter coached 10 seasons, won 45.7%, and posted an average SRS of -2.8. Best season: 1995 Cincinnati. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 53-63-1
- Career win rate
- 45.7%
- Average SRS
- -2.8
- Peak SRS
- 7.5
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 35.2
Primary school anchor
Cincinnati
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 55.4.
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
- 53-63-1
- Cincinnati record
- 53-63-1
- Full-season record
- 53-63-1
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Miami (OH)
- 4-5-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-3
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
117 countable games, 45.7% win rate.
10 countable seasons at Cincinnati.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Battle for the Bell games in this dataset.
4 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: Nov 28, 2003. 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.
Rick Minter
EliteStrongAverageLean
1994Actual season year • SRS range -18.3 to 7.52003
Active comparison point
Rick Minter • 1995
1995 Cincinnati
Best season6-5 • SRS 7.5 • SP Overall 15.3
Win %
54.5%
YoY SRS
+21.9
SP Off / Def
31.4 / 17.5
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
1-3
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results14
| 2003 Regular Week 13 | Cincinnati | TCU | #10 | L10-43 |
| 2002 Regular Week 5 | Cincinnati | Ohio State | #6 | L19-23 |
| 2001 Postseason Week 1 | Cincinnati | Toledo | #25 | L16-23 |
| 2000 Regular Week 13 | Cincinnati | Southern Miss | #24 | W27-24 |
| 2000 Regular Week 4 | Cincinnati | Wisconsin | #4 | L25-28 |
| 1999 Regular Week 12 | Cincinnati | East Carolina | #24 | L34-48 |
| 1999 Regular Week 9 | Cincinnati | Southern Miss | #21 | L20-28 |
| 1999 Regular Week 5 | Cincinnati | Ohio State | #12 | L20-34 |
| 1999 Regular Week 4 | Cincinnati | Wisconsin | #9 | W17-12 |
| 1998 Regular Week 7 | Cincinnati | Syracuse | #23 | L21-63 |
| 1997 Regular Week 11 | Cincinnati | Southern Miss | #24 | L17-24 |
| 1996 Regular Week 11 | Cincinnati | Southern Miss | #23 | L17-21 |
| 1996 Regular Week 4 | Cincinnati | Kansas State | #17 | L0-35 |
| 1995 Regular Week 3 | Cincinnati | Kansas State | #21 | L21-23 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Cincinnati
1994-2003 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS -2.8 • Win % 45.7%
- Longest tenure
- Cincinnati • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Cincinnati • -2.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Cincinnati • 45.7%
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.
Rick Minter sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRick Minter sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Rick Minter
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -0.6
- Percentile
- 54th 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.
Cincinnati
1994-2003 • 53-63-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.8Win % 45.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 3.4 baseline
+1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.8 during vs -12.9 baseline
+10.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-0.6 during vs -11.2 baseline
+10.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Cincinnati 1995
6-5 • SRS 7.5
Biggest Improvement
Cincinnati 1999
3-8 • 22.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Cincinnati 2002
7-7 • SP Off 36.5
Best Defensive Season
Cincinnati 1995
6-5 • SP Def 17.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Cincinnati 1998
2-9 • SRS -18.3
Biggest Drop
Cincinnati 1998
2-9 • -17.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Cincinnati | 2003 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -4.9 | -3.1 | 30.1 | 33.3 | -9.4 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 2002 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 4.5 | 10.7 | 36.5 | 28.1 | +7.1 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 2001 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -2.6 | -3.5 | 30.3 | 33.7 | -0.4 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 2000 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -2.2 | 1.4 | 29.6 | 29.0 | -6.1 | +31.1% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1999 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 3.9 | 7.8 | 34.2 | 28.2 | +22.2 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1998 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -18.3 | -18.7 | 31.5 | 44.2 | -17.9 | -48.5% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1997 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -0.4 | 2.1 | 29.9 | 28.7 | +1.0 | +12.1% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1996 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -1.4 | -2.7 | 22.9 | 25.6 | -8.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1995 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 7.5 | 15.3 | 31.4 | 17.5 | +21.9 | +31.8% | Season summary |
| Cincinnati | 1994 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | -14.4 | -15.0 | 17.8 | 31.7 | — | — | Season summary |
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