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- Win rate
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Rick Forzano
1969-1972 • Navy
One defining program at Navy.
Rick Forzano coached 4 seasons, won 23.3%, and posted an average SRS of -7.2. Best season: 1972 Navy. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 10-33
- Career win rate
- 23.3%
- Average SRS
- -7.2
- Peak SRS
- -0.1
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
- 75.1
Primary school anchor
Navy
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 34.9.
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 Forzano
EliteStrongAverageLean
1969Actual season year • SRS range -13.1 to -0.11972
Active comparison point
Rick Forzano • 1972
1972 Navy
Best seasonBiggest improvement4-7 • SRS -0.1 • SP Overall -1.6
Win %
36.4%
YoY SRS
+5.1
SP Off / Def
23.5 / 25.0
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
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results17
| 1972 Regular Week 9 | Navy | Notre Dame | #12 | L23-42 |
| 1972 Regular Week 7 | Navy | Air Force | #16 | W21-17 |
| 1972 Regular Week 5 | Navy | Michigan | #5 | L7-35 |
| 1972 Regular Week 3 | Navy | Penn State | #11 | L10-21 |
| 1971 Regular Week 8 | Navy | Notre Dame | #12 | L0-21 |
| 1971 Regular Week 7 | Navy | Duke | #19 | W15-14 |
| 1971 Regular Week 4 | Navy | Michigan | #2 | L0-46 |
| 1971 Regular Week 2 | Navy | Penn State | #14 | L3-56 |
| 1970 Regular Week 11 | Navy | Georgia Tech | #17 | L8-30 |
| 1970 Regular Week 10 | Navy | Notre Dame | #1 | L7-56 |
| 1970 Regular Week 9 | Navy | Syracuse | #20 | L8-23 |
| 1970 Regular Week 8 | Navy | Air Force | #7 | L3-26 |
| 1970 Regular Week 7 | Navy | Pittsburgh | #18 | L8-10 |
| 1970 Regular Week 4 | Navy | Penn State | #16 | L7-55 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Navy | Notre Dame | #8 | L0-47 |
| 1969 Regular Week 4 | Navy | Texas | #2 | L17-56 |
| 1969 Regular Week 2 | Navy | Penn State | #2 | L22-45 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Navy
1969-1972 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -7.2 • Win % 23.3%
- Longest tenure
- Navy • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Navy • -7.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Navy • 23.3%
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.
Rick Forzano sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRick Forzano sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Rick Forzano
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.0
- Percentile
- 39th 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.
Navy
1969-1972 • 10-33
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.2Win % 23.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.5 during vs 3.6 baseline
-1.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.2 during vs 0.7 baseline
-7.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.0 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
Navy 1972
4-7 • SRS -0.1
Biggest Improvement
Navy 1972
4-7 • 5.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Navy 1971
3-8 • SP Off 23.7
Best Defensive Season
Navy 1972
4-7 • SP Def 25.0
Setbacks
Worst Season
Navy 1969
1-9 • SRS -13.1
Biggest Drop
Navy 1970
2-9 • 2.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Navy | 1972 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -0.1 | -1.6 | 23.5 | 25.0 | +5.1 | +9.1% |
| Navy | 1971 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -5.2 | -6.1 | 23.7 | 29.5 | +5.1 | +9.1% |
| Navy | 1970 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -10.3 | -10.3 | 20.6 | 30.1 | +2.8 | +8.2% |
| Navy | 1969 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -13.1 | — | — | — | — | — |
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