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Joseph Restic

1971-1981Harvard

One defining program at Harvard.

Joseph Restic coached 11 seasons, won 59.9%, and posted an average SRS of -11.0. Best season: 1976 Harvard. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
59-39-3
Career win rate
59.9%
Average SRS
-11.0
Peak SRS
-3.3

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
11
Career span
11 years
Best finish
Consistency
64.5

Primary school anchor

Harvard

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 27.6.

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.

Joseph Restic
EliteStrongAverageLean
1971Actual season year • SRS range -20.9 to -3.31981

Active comparison point

Joseph Restic1976

Selected

1976 Harvard

Best season

6-3 • SRS -3.3 • SP Overall 6.1

Win %

66.7%

YoY SRS

+0.8

SP Off / Def

19.1 / 14.1

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
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Harvard

1971-198111 seasons

Avg SRS -11.0 • Win % 59.9%

Longest tenure
Harvard • 11 seasons
Best tenure
Harvard • -11.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Harvard • 59.9%

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.

Joseph Restic sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Joseph Restic sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Joseph Restic

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall
2.1
Percentile
65th pct

Above average

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.

Harvard

1971-198159-39-3

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

Avg SRS -11.0Win % 59.9%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.4 during vs 6.4 baseline

-1.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-11.0 during vs -11.5 baseline

+0.5

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

2.1 during vs 10.8 baseline

-8.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Harvard 1976

6-3SRS -3.3

Biggest Improvement

Harvard 1972

4-4-113.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Harvard 1973

7-2SP Off 32.0

Best Defensive Season

Harvard 1976

6-3SP Def 14.1

Setbacks

Worst Season

Harvard 1979

3-6SRS -20.9

Biggest Drop

Harvard 1978

4-4-1-8.9 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Harvard19811054155.0%-12.7-3.422.025.5+1.9-15.0%
Harvard19801073070.0%-14.6-7.413.520.5+6.3+36.7%
Harvard1979936033.3%-20.9-0.921.322.2-6.7-16.7%
Harvard1978944150.0%-14.2-7.025.632.1-8.9+5.6%
Harvard1977945044.4%-5.32.824.522.2-2.0-22.2%
Harvard1976963066.7%-3.36.119.114.1+0.8-11.1%
Harvard1975972077.8%-4.111.329.819.5+5.20.0%
Harvard1974972077.8%-9.311.229.519.4+3.10.0%
Harvard1973972077.8%-12.46.632.026.9-6.9+27.8%
Harvard1972944150.0%-5.53.226.524.0+13.5-5.6%
Harvard1971954055.6%-19.00.824.924.3

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