Top 25
1-15
- Games
- 16
- Win rate
- 6.3%
Coach Profile
1949-1965 • Florida 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 Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Maryland
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 59.7.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
172 countable games, 52.6% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Maryland.
17 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
Maryland-Virginia games in this dataset.
2 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
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.
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.
Active comparison point
6-4 • SRS 9.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
60.0%
YoY SRS
+4.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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 25
1-15
Top 10
0-7
Top 5
0-3
| 1963 Regular Week 9 | Maryland | Navy | #2 | L7-42 |
| 1960 Regular Week 3 | Maryland | Texas | #13 | L0-34 |
| 1959 Regular Week 10 | Maryland | Clemson | #19 | W28-25 |
| 1959 Regular Week 4 | Maryland | Syracuse | #12 | L0-29 |
| 1959 Regular Week 3 | Maryland | Texas | #10 | L0-26 |
| 1958 Regular Week 11 | Florida State | Florida | #14 | L7-21 |
| 1958 Postseason Week 1 | Florida State | Oklahoma State | #19 | L6-15 |
| 1957 Regular Week 11 | Florida State | Auburn | #1 | L7-29 |
| 1957 Regular Week 5 | Florida State | NC State | #12 | L0-7 |
| 1956 Regular Week 8 | Florida State | Miami | #8 | L7-20 |
| 1955 Regular Week 6 | Florida State | Georgia Tech | #13 | L0-34 |
| 1952 Regular Week 6 | VMI | Virginia | #16 | L14-33 |
| 1951 Regular Week 9 | VMI | Georgia Tech | #7 | L7-34 |
| 1950 Regular Week 5 | VMI | Texas A&M | #13 | L0-52 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | VMI | Army | #4 | L14-40 |
| 1949 Regular Week 7 | VMI | Virginia | #9 | L13-32 |
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Maryland
1959-1965 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 2.9 • Win % 51.4%
Florida State
1953-1958 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -0.4 • Win % 54.8%
VMI
1949-1952 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -7.8 • Win % 51.3%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Thomas Nugent
Insufficient sample
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1959-1965 • 36-34
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
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%
1953-1958 • 34-28-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
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%
1949-1952 • 19-18-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
High Points
Best Season
Maryland 1962
6-4 • SRS 9.3
Biggest Improvement
Florida State 1956
5-4-1 • 14.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
VMI 1952
3-6-1 • SRS -19.8
Biggest Drop
VMI 1952
3-6-1 • -20.0 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Maryland | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -1.5 | — | — | — | -7.2 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1964 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.7 | — | — | — | +7.2 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1963 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -1.5 | — | — | — | -10.8 | -30.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1962 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 9.3 | — | — | — | +4.2 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1961 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 5.1 | — | — | — | +5.1 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1960 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 0.0 | — | — | — | -2.9 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Maryland | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 2.9 | — | — | — | -3.7 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1958 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 6.6 | — | — | — | +12.3 | +23.6% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1957 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -5.7 | — | — | — | -13.0 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1956 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 7.3 | — | — | — | +14.5 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1955 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -7.2 | — | — | — | -4.2 | -16.7% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1954 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -3.0 | — | — | — | — | +16.7% | Season summary |
| Florida State | 1953 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | #0 | #0 | — | — | — | — | — | +15.0% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1952 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | -19.8 | — | — | — | -20.0 | -35.0% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1951 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 0.2 | — | — | — | +3.4 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1950 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -3.2 | — | — | — | +5.4 | +21.1% | Season summary |
| VMI | 1949 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 38.9% | — | — | -8.6 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
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