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Jim Dickey
1978-1985 • Kansas State
One defining program at Kansas State.
Jim Dickey's coaching record is 24-54-2, highlighted by seasons at Kansas State from 1978 to 1985.
Jim Dickey coached 8 seasons, won 31.3%, and posted an average SRS of -6.0. Best season: 1982 Kansas State. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 24-54-2
- Career win rate
- 31.3%
- Average SRS
- -6.0
- Peak SRS
- 4.0
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 53.6
Primary school anchor
Kansas State
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 44.3.
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
- 24-54-2
- Kansas State record
- 24-54-2
- Full-season record
- 24-52-2
- Partial-season record
- 0-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-11
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-7
- Vs Kansas
- 3-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
80 countable games, 31.3% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Kansas State.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
11 games using AP ranking at game time.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
Sunflower Showdown games in this dataset.
1 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 23, 1985. 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.
Jim Dickey
EliteStrongAverageLean
1978Actual season year • SRS range -19.2 to 4.01985
Active comparison point
Jim Dickey • 1982
1982 Kansas State
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-5-1 • SRS 4.0 • SP Overall 5.6
Win %
54.2%
YoY SRS
+8.7
SP Off / Def
22.0 / 17.4
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
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results23
| 1984 Regular Week 11 | Kansas State | Oklahoma State | #7 | L6-34 |
| 1984 Regular Week 10 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #3 | L14-62 |
| 1984 Regular Week 7 | Kansas State | South Carolina | #17 | L17-49 |
| 1984 Regular Week 6 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #5 | L6-24 |
| 1983 Regular Week 10 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #1 | L25-51 |
| 1983 Regular Week 6 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #8 | L10-29 |
| 1982 Regular Week 10 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #14 | L10-24 |
| 1982 Regular Week 7 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #6 | L13-42 |
| 1982 Regular Week 5 | Kansas State | Arizona State | #13 | L7-30 |
| 1981 Regular Week 10 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #17 | L21-28 |
| 1981 Regular Week 9 | Kansas State | Iowa State | #11 | W10-7 |
| 1981 Regular Week 7 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #19 | L3-49 |
| 1981 Regular Week 6 | Kansas State | Missouri | #13 | L13-58 |
| 1981 Regular Week 3 | Kansas State | Washington | #15 | L3-20 |
| 1980 Regular Week 11 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #4 | L8-55 |
| 1980 Regular Week 9 | Kansas State | Missouri | #15 | L3-13 |
| 1980 Regular Week 8 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #17 | L21-35 |
| 1980 Regular Week 7 | Kansas State | Iowa State | #19 | L7-31 |
| 1979 Regular Week 11 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #3 | L12-21 |
| 1979 Regular Week 8 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #7 | L6-38 |
| 1978 Regular Week 9 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #1 | L19-56 |
| 1978 Regular Week 8 | Kansas State | Missouri | #13 | L14-56 |
| 1978 Regular Week 7 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #5 | L14-48 |
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
1978-1985 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS -6.0 • Win % 31.3%
- Longest tenure
- Kansas State • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kansas State • -6.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kansas State • 31.3%
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.
Jim Dickey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJim Dickey sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Dickey
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -9.2
- Percentile
- 29th 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.
Kansas State
1978-1985 • 24-54-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -6.0Win % 31.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.4 during vs 2.8 baseline
+0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.2 during vs 0.8 baseline
-4.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-7.2 during vs 1.4 baseline
-8.6
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 1982
6-5-1 • SRS 4.0
Biggest Improvement
Kansas State 1982
6-5-1 • 8.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kansas State 1978
4-7 • SP Off 27.2
Best Defensive Season
Kansas State 1982
6-5-1 • SP Def 17.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Kansas State 1985
0-2 • SRS -19.2
Biggest Drop
Kansas State 1983
3-8 • -14.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas State | 1985 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -19.2 | -22.8 | 12.0 | 33.9 | -9.9 | -31.8% | Partial season |
| Kansas State | 1984 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | -9.3 | -10.2 | 24.7 | 33.6 | +0.9 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1983 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -10.2 | -11.3 | 24.7 | 34.2 | -14.2 | -26.9% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1982 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 54.2% | — | — | 4.0 | 5.6 | 22.0 | 17.4 | +8.7 | +36.0% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1981 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -4.7 | -7.7 | 22.0 | 29.2 | -1.9 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1980 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -2.8 | -9.4 | 14.2 | 22.7 | -0.4 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1979 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -2.4 | -10.0 | 15.9 | 25.2 | +1.3 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1978 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -3.7 | -7.4 | 27.2 | 33.5 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
Joe Glenn
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS -5.7 • Peak SRS 0.3 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.3
Open profile →Craig Bohl
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.4
Avg SRS -4.6 • Peak SRS 2.5 • 10 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.3
Open profile →Rip Scherer
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.8
Avg SRS -5.2 • Peak SRS 6.0 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 5.4
Open profile →Augie Tammariello
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.7
Avg SRS -7.8 • Peak SRS 1.2 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.9
Open profile →Dick Bestwick
same defense-first identity • volatility within 0.0
Avg SRS -3.9 • Peak SRS 9.5 • 6 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.5
Open profile →Ricky Rahne
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.4
Avg SRS -4.6 • Peak SRS 6.1 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.1
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