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Coach Profile
Tim Murphy
1989-1993 • Cincinnati
One defining program at Cincinnati.
Tim Murphy coached 5 seasons, won 31.8%, and posted an average SRS of -12.9. Best season: 1993 Cincinnati. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 17-37-1
- Career win rate
- 31.8%
- Average SRS
- -12.9
- Peak SRS
- -2.0
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 28.5
Primary school anchor
Cincinnati
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 30.7.
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.
Tim Murphy
EliteStrongAverageLean
1989Actual season year • SRS range -24.0 to -2.01993
Active comparison point
Tim Murphy • 1993
1993 Cincinnati
Best season8-3 • SRS -2.0 • SP Overall 4.0
Win %
72.7%
YoY SRS
+6.5
SP Off / Def
28.8 / 26.1
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
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results9
| 1993 Regular Week 5 | Cincinnati | Syracuse | #12 | L21-24 |
| 1992 Regular Week 5 | Cincinnati | Tennessee | #8 | L0-40 |
| 1992 Regular Week 2 | Cincinnati | Penn State | #8 | L20-24 |
| 1991 Regular Week 13 | Cincinnati | East Carolina | #13 | L19-30 |
| 1991 Regular Week 2 | Cincinnati | Penn State | #5 | L0-81 |
| 1990 Regular Week 12 | Cincinnati | Florida State | #9 | L21-70 |
| 1990 Regular Week 11 | Cincinnati | Louisville | #22 | L16-41 |
| 1989 Regular Week 8 | Cincinnati | West Virginia | #18 | L3-69 |
| 1989 Regular Week 6 | Cincinnati | Miami | #2 | L0-56 |
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
1989-1993 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -12.9 • Win % 31.8%
- Longest tenure
- Cincinnati • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Cincinnati • -12.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Cincinnati • 31.8%
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.
Tim Murphy sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTim Murphy sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tim Murphy
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.2
- Percentile
- 25th 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.
Cincinnati
1989-1993 • 17-37-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -12.9Win % 31.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.4 during vs 3.8 baseline
-0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-12.9 during vs -11.4 baseline
-1.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.2 during vs -12.9 baseline
+1.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Cincinnati 1993
8-3 • SRS -2.0
Biggest Improvement
Cincinnati 1991
4-7 • 14.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Cincinnati 1993
8-3 • SP Off 28.8
Best Defensive Season
Cincinnati 1993
8-3 • SP Def 26.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
Cincinnati 1990
1-10 • SRS -24.0
Biggest Drop
Cincinnati 1990
1-10 • -3.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Cincinnati | 1993 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | -2.0 | 4.0 | 28.8 | 26.1 | +6.5 | +45.5% |
| Cincinnati | 1992 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -8.5 | -8.0 | 22.7 | 30.0 | +0.7 | -9.1% |
| Cincinnati | 1991 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -9.2 | -6.8 | 26.7 | 33.0 | +14.8 | +27.3% |
| Cincinnati | 1990 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -24.0 | -20.9 | 25.9 | 42.3 | -3.1 | -4.5% |
| Cincinnati | 1989 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 13.6% | — | — | -20.9 | -24.1 | 16.8 | 38.5 | — | — |
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