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Thomas Nugent

1949-1965Florida State, Maryland, VMI

3 schools coached, anchored by Maryland.

Thomas Nugent coached 17 seasons, won 52.6%, and posted an average SRS of -0.8. Best season: 1962 Maryland. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

Career record
89-80-3
Career win rate
52.6%
Average SRS
-0.8
Peak SRS
9.3

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
17
Career span
17 years
Best finish
#0
Consistency
42.8

Primary school anchor

Maryland

Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 59.7.

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 Thomas Nugent
Overall record
89-80-3

172 countable games, 52.6% win rate.

Maryland record
36-34

7 countable seasons at Maryland.

Full-season record
89-80-3

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

Vs AP Top 25
1-15

16 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-7

7 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-3

3 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Virginia
5-2

Maryland-Virginia games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-2

2 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: Dec 4, 1965. 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.

Thomas Nugent
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Thomas Nugent: 1953 Florida StateThomas Nugent: 1959 Maryland
1949Actual season year • SRS range -19.8 to 9.31965

Active comparison point

Thomas Nugent1962

Selected

1962 Maryland

Best season

6-4 • SRS 9.3 • SP Overall

Win %

60.0%

YoY SRS

+4.2

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

1-15

Games
16
Win rate
6.3%

Top 10

0-7

Games
7
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-3

Games
3
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results16
1963 Regular Week 9MarylandNavy#2L7-42
1960 Regular Week 3MarylandTexas#13L0-34
1959 Regular Week 10MarylandClemson#19W28-25
1959 Regular Week 4MarylandSyracuse#12L0-29
1959 Regular Week 3MarylandTexas#10L0-26
1958 Regular Week 11Florida StateFlorida#14L7-21
1958 Postseason Week 1Florida StateOklahoma State#19L6-15
1957 Regular Week 11Florida StateAuburn#1L7-29
1957 Regular Week 5Florida StateNC State#12L0-7
1956 Regular Week 8Florida StateMiami#8L7-20
1955 Regular Week 6Florida StateGeorgia Tech#13L0-34
1952 Regular Week 6VMIVirginia#16L14-33
1951 Regular Week 9VMIGeorgia Tech#7L7-34
1950 Regular Week 5VMITexas A&M#13L0-52
1949 Regular Week 8VMIArmy#4L14-40
1949 Regular Week 7VMIVirginia#9L13-32

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Maryland

1959-19657 seasons

Avg SRS 2.9 • Win % 51.4%

Florida State

1953-19586 seasons

Avg SRS -0.4 • Win % 54.8%

VMI

1949-19524 seasons

Avg SRS -7.8 • Win % 51.3%

Longest tenure
Maryland • 7 seasons
Best tenure
Maryland • 2.9 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Florida State • 54.8%

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.

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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.

Maryland

1959-196536-34

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

Avg SRS 2.9Win % 51.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.1 during vs 5.6 baseline

-0.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

2.9 during vs 9.2 baseline

-6.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline

-40.0%

Florida State

1953-195834-28-1

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

Avg SRS -0.4Win % 54.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.7 during vs 6.2 baseline

-0.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-0.4 during vs baseline

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

16.7% during vs 100.0% baseline

-83.3%

VMI

1949-195219-18-2

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -7.8Win % 51.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Maryland 1962

6-4SRS 9.3

Biggest Improvement

Florida State 1956

5-4-114.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

VMI 1952

3-6-1SRS -19.8

Biggest Drop

VMI 1952

3-6-1-20.0 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Maryland19651046040.0%-1.5-7.2-10.0%Season summary
Maryland19641055050.0%5.7+7.2+20.0%Season summary
Maryland19631037030.0%-1.5-10.8-30.0%Season summary
Maryland19621064060.0%9.3+4.2-10.0%Season summary
Maryland19611073070.0%5.1+5.1+10.0%Season summary
Maryland19601064060.0%0.0-2.9+10.0%Season summary
Maryland19591055050.0%2.9-3.7-13.6%Season summary
Florida State19581174063.6%6.6+12.3+23.6%Season summary
Florida State19571046040.0%-5.7-13.0-15.0%Season summary
Florida State19561054155.0%7.3+14.5+5.0%Season summary
Florida State19551055050.0%-7.2-4.2-16.7%Season summary
Florida State19541284066.7%-3.0+16.7%Season summary
Florida State19531055050.0%#0#0+15.0%Season summary
VMI19521036135.0%-19.8-20.0-35.0%Season summary
VMI19511073070.0%0.2+3.4+10.0%Season summary
VMI19501064060.0%-3.2+5.4+21.1%Season summary
VMI1949935138.9%-8.6Season summary

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