Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Back to Coaches
Defense-FirstDefense-First
Coach Profile
Ralph Staub
1977-1980 • Cincinnati
One defining program at Cincinnati.
Ralph Staub coached 4 seasons, won 34.1%, and posted an average SRS of -2.7. Best season: 1977 Cincinnati. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 14-28-2
- Career win rate
- 34.1%
- Average SRS
- -2.7
- Peak SRS
- 3.7
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 59.0
Primary school anchor
Cincinnati
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 43.3.
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.
Ralph Staub
EliteStrongAverageLean
1977Actual season year • SRS range -11.3 to 3.71980
Active comparison point
Ralph Staub • 1977
1977 Cincinnati
Best season5-4-2 • SRS 3.7 • SP Overall 3.9
Win %
54.5%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
21.6 / 18.3
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
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-0
- Games
- 0
- Win rate
- —
View ranked game results5
| 1980 Regular Week 8 | Cincinnati | South Carolina | #14 | L7-49 |
| 1979 Regular Week 10 | Cincinnati | Florida State | #7 | L21-26 |
| 1979 Regular Week 7 | Cincinnati | Pittsburgh | #17 | L0-35 |
| 1979 Regular Week 6 | Cincinnati | North Carolina | #14 | L14-35 |
| 1978 Regular Week 6 | Cincinnati | Florida State | #15 | L21-26 |
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
1977-1980 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -2.7 • Win % 34.1%
- Longest tenure
- Cincinnati • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Cincinnati • -2.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Cincinnati • 34.1%
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.
Ralph Staub sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRalph Staub sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Ralph Staub
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -1.0
- 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.
Cincinnati
1977-1980 • 14-28-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.7Win % 34.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.5 during vs 5.4 baseline
-1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.7 during vs -1.8 baseline
-0.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-1.0 during vs 3.6 baseline
-4.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Cincinnati 1977
5-4-2 • SRS 3.7
Biggest Improvement
Cincinnati 1978
5-6 • -1.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Cincinnati 1978
5-6 • SP Off 32.3
Best Defensive Season
Cincinnati 1977
5-4-2 • SP Def 18.3
Setbacks
Worst Season
Cincinnati 1980
2-9 • SRS -11.3
Biggest Drop
Cincinnati 1979
2-9 • -7.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Cincinnati | 1980 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -11.3 | -15.9 | 13.5 | 29.0 | -5.7 | 0.0% |
| Cincinnati | 1979 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -5.6 | -2.4 | 23.2 | 25.5 | -7.9 | -27.3% |
| Cincinnati | 1978 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 2.3 | 10.5 | 32.3 | 23.3 | -1.4 | -9.1% |
| Cincinnati | 1977 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 54.5% | — | — | 3.7 | 3.9 | 21.6 | 18.3 | — | — |
Similar coaches
Related profiles are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Frank Spaziani
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.6
Avg SRS -2.2 • Peak SRS 5.6 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.0
Open profile →Fred Pancoast
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.1
Avg SRS -2.7 • Peak SRS 5.8 • 7 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.2
Open profile →Rockey Felker
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.1
Avg SRS -2.6 • Peak SRS 4.5 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.7
Open profile →Tony Elliott
same defense-first identity • volatility within 0.1
Avg SRS -0.6 • Peak SRS 9.8 • 4 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.2
Open profile →PW Underwood
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS -2.9 • Peak SRS 4.7 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.2
Open profile →Bill Clark
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.2
Avg SRS -2.5 • Peak SRS 4.1 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.2
Open profile →