Top 25
4-14
- Games
- 18
- Win rate
- 22.2%
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Coach Profile
Mark Mangino
2002-2009 • Kansas
One defining program at Kansas.
Mark Mangino coached 8 seasons, won 51.0%, and posted an average SRS of 2.4. Best season: 2007 Kansas. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 50-48
- Career win rate
- 51.0%
- Average SRS
- 2.4
- Peak SRS
- 20.5
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- #7
- Consistency
- 9.9
Primary school anchor
Kansas
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 85.4.
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.
Mark Mangino
EliteStrongAverageLean
2002Actual season year • SRS range -19.4 to 20.52009
Active comparison point
Mark Mangino • 2007
2007 Kansas
Best seasonBiggest improvement12-1 • SRS 20.5 • SP Overall 24.9
Win %
92.3%
YoY SRS
+20.1
SP Off / Def
40.3 / 15.2
Finish
#7
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
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
Top 5
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results18
| 2009 Regular Week 12 | Kansas | Texas | #3 | L20-51 |
| 2009 Regular Week 8 | Kansas | Oklahoma | #25 | L13-35 |
| 2008 Regular Week 14 | Kansas | Missouri | #12 | W40-37 |
| 2008 Regular Week 12 | Kansas | Texas | #4 | L7-35 |
| 2008 Regular Week 9 | Kansas | Texas Tech | #8 | L21-63 |
| 2008 Regular Week 8 | Kansas | Oklahoma | #4 | L31-45 |
| 2008 Regular Week 3 | Kansas | South Florida | #19 | L34-37 |
| 2007 Regular Week 13 | Kansas | Missouri | #3 | L28-36 |
| 2007 Regular Week 6 | Kansas | Kansas State | #24 | W30-24 |
| 2007 Postseason Week 1 | Kansas | Virginia Tech | #9 | W24-21 |
| 2006 Regular Week 5 | Kansas | Nebraska | #21 | L32-39 |
| 2005 Regular Week 11 | Kansas | Texas | #2 | L14-66 |
| 2005 Regular Week 5 | Kansas | Texas Tech | #16 | L17-30 |
| 2004 Regular Week 12 | Kansas | Texas | #6 | L23-27 |
| 2004 Regular Week 9 | Kansas | Oklahoma | #2 | L10-41 |
| 2003 Regular Week 12 | Kansas | Nebraska | #19 | L3-24 |
| 2003 Regular Week 6 | Kansas | Missouri | #23 | W35-14 |
| 2002 Regular Week 11 | Kansas | Kansas State | #14 | L0-64 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Kansas
2002-2009 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 2.4 • Win % 51.0%
- Longest tenure
- Kansas • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kansas • 2.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kansas • 51.0%
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.
Mark Mangino sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMark Mangino sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mark Mangino
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 6.0
- Percentile
- 75th pct
Strong
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.
Kansas
2002-2009 • 50-48
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.4Win % 51.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 3.9 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.4 during vs -7.0 baseline
+9.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.0 during vs -5.5 baseline
+11.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
12.5% during vs 0.0% baseline
+12.5%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kansas 2007
12-1 • SRS 20.5
Biggest Improvement
Kansas 2007
12-1 • 20.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kansas 2008
8-5 • SP Off 41.9
Best Defensive Season
Kansas 2005
7-5 • SP Def 14.0
Setbacks
Worst Season
Kansas 2002
2-10 • SRS -19.4
Biggest Drop
Kansas 2008
8-5 • -10.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas | 2009 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #25 | — | 2.1 | 8.0 | 32.7 | 23.8 | -7.7 | -19.9% |
| Kansas | 2008 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #14 | — | 9.8 | 16.0 | 41.9 | 25.4 | -10.7 | -30.8% |
| Kansas | 2007 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 92.3% | — | #7 | 20.5 | 24.9 | 40.3 | 15.2 | +20.1 | +42.3% |
| Kansas | 2006 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 0.4 | 6.9 | 27.4 | 21.6 | -2.7 | -8.3% |
| Kansas | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 3.1 | 8.5 | 22.5 | 14.0 | -3.0 | +22.0% |
| Kansas | 2004 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 6.1 | 9.8 | 31.5 | 23.2 | +9.2 | -9.8% |
| Kansas | 2003 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -3.1 | -5.4 | 35.0 | 38.9 | +16.3 | +29.5% |
| Kansas | 2002 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -19.4 | -20.9 | 29.0 | 43.7 | — | — |
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