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Rick Stockstill

2006-2023Middle Tennessee

One defining program at Middle Tennessee.

Rick Stockstill's coaching record is 113-111, highlighted by seasons at Middle Tennessee from 2006 to 2023.

Rick Stockstill coached 18 seasons, won 50.4%, and posted an average SRS of -8.3. Best season: 2009 Middle Tennessee. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
113-111
Career win rate
50.4%
Average SRS
-8.3
Peak SRS
0.3

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
18
Career span
18 years
Best finish
Consistency
72.9

Primary school anchor

Middle Tennessee

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 35.6.

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.

Compare Rick Stockstill
Overall record
113-111

224 countable games, 50.4% win rate.

Middle Tennessee record
113-111

18 countable seasons at Middle Tennessee.

Full-season record
113-111

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

Vs AP Top 25
1-11

12 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-5

5 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-3

3 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Western Kentucky
6-10

100 Miles of Hate games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
4-6

10 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 25, 2023. 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.

Rick Stockstill
EliteStrongAverageLean
2006Actual season year • SRS range -22.3 to 0.32023

Active comparison point

Rick Stockstill2009

Selected

2009 Middle Tennessee

Best season

10-3 • SRS 0.3 • SP Overall -2.1

Win %

76.9%

YoY SRS

+12.4

SP Off / Def

23.5 / 25.2

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

1-11

Games
12
Win rate
8.3%

Top 10

0-5

Games
5
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-3

Games
3
Win rate
0.0%
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Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Middle Tennessee

2006-202318 seasons

Avg SRS -8.3 • Win % 50.4%

Longest tenure
Middle Tennessee • 18 seasons
Best tenure
Middle Tennessee • -8.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Middle Tennessee • 50.4%

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.

Rick Stockstill sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Rick Stockstill sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Rick Stockstill

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall
-9.5
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.

Middle Tennessee

2006-2023113-111

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

Avg SRS -8.3Win % 50.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.3 during vs 5.0 baseline

+1.3

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-8.3 during vs -9.0 baseline

+0.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-9.5 during vs -12.7 baseline

+3.3

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Middle Tennessee 2009

10-3SRS 0.3

Biggest Improvement

Middle Tennessee 2012

8-417.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Middle Tennessee 2016

8-5SP Off 35.0

Best Defensive Season

Middle Tennessee 2009

10-3SP Def 25.2

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Middle Tennessee 2011

2-10SRS -22.3

Biggest Drop

Middle Tennessee 2010

6-7-16.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Middle Tennessee20231248033.3%-8.1-9.521.530.0-0.4-28.2%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20221385061.5%-7.7-6.925.633.3+0.5+7.7%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20211376053.8%-8.2-4.024.027.1+5.4+20.5%Season summary
Middle Tennessee2020936033.3%-13.6-11.724.335.8-6.00.0%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20191248033.3%-7.6-11.327.237.4-6.7-23.8%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20181486057.1%-0.9-3.824.428.7+7.9+3.3%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20171376053.8%-8.8-4.921.226.8+0.6-7.7%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20161385061.5%-9.4-1.935.036.8-5.8+7.7%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20151376053.8%-3.6-4.627.732.1+2.3+3.9%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20141266050.0%-5.9-8.729.636.5+0.9-11.5%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20131385061.5%-6.8-11.823.334.2-2.2-5.1%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20121284066.7%-4.6-7.527.734.4+17.7+50.0%Season summary
Middle Tennessee201112210016.7%-22.3-24.616.640.0-6.4-29.5%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20101367046.2%-15.9-12.519.432.8-16.2-30.8%Season summary
Middle Tennessee200913103076.9%0.3-2.123.525.2+12.4+35.3%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20081257041.7%-12.1-15.017.231.6-4.60.0%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20071257041.7%-7.5-16.120.035.1-1.2-12.2%Season summary
Middle Tennessee20061376053.8%-6.3-13.514.828.1Season summary

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