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Hobbs Adams

1940-1946Kansas State

One defining program at Kansas State.

Hobbs Adams's coaching record is 4-21-2, highlighted by seasons at Kansas State from 1940 to 1946.

Hobbs Adams coached 3 seasons, won 18.5%, and posted an average SRS of -13.5. Best season: 1941 Kansas State. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

Career record
4-21-2
Career win rate
18.5%
Average SRS
-13.5
Peak SRS
-7.6

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
3
Career span
7 years
Best finish
Consistency
33.5

Primary school anchor

Kansas State

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 19.4.

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Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Hobbs Adams
Overall record
4-21-2

27 countable games, 18.5% win rate.

Kansas State record
4-12-2

2 countable seasons at Kansas State.

Full-season record
4-21-2

3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
0-2

2 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-1

1 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Kansas
1-2

Sunflower Showdown games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-0

0 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

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 30, 1946. 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.

Hobbs Adams
EliteStrongAverageLean
1940Actual season year • SRS range -24.6 to -7.61946

Active comparison point

Hobbs Adams1941

Selected

1941 Kansas State

Best seasonBiggest improvement

2-5-2 • SRS -7.6 • SP Overall

Win %

33.3%

YoY SRS

+0.8

SP Off / Def

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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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results2
1941 Regular Week 4Kansas StateMissouri#17L0-35
1941 Regular Week 3Kansas StateNorthwestern#9L3-51

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 State

1946-19461 seasons

Avg SRS -24.6 • Win % 0.0%

Kansas State

1940-19412 seasons

Avg SRS -8.0 • Win % 27.8%

Longest tenure
Kansas State • 2 seasons
Best tenure
Kansas State • -8.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Kansas State • 27.8%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Hobbs Adams

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

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 State

1946-19460-9

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -24.6Win % 0.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

0.0 during vs 1.8 baseline

-1.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-24.6 during vs -20.9 baseline

-3.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Kansas State

1940-19414-12-2

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -8.0Win % 27.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.0 during vs 3.6 baseline

-1.6

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-8.0 during vs 1.3 baseline

-9.3

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Kansas State 1941

2-5-2SRS -7.6

Biggest Improvement

Kansas State 1941

2-5-20.8 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Kansas State 1946

0-9SRS -24.6

Biggest Drop

Kansas State 1946

0-9-17.0 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Kansas State194690900.0%-24.6-17.0-33.3%Season summary
Kansas State1941925233.3%-7.6+0.8+11.1%Season summary
Kansas State1940927022.2%-8.4Season summary

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