Top 25
11-26
- Games
- 37
- Win rate
- 29.7%
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Randy Walker
1990-2005 • Miami (OH), Northwestern
2 schools coached, anchored by Miami (OH).
Randy Walker coached 16 seasons, won 53.6%, and posted an average SRS of -2.8. Best season: 1997 Miami (OH). The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 95-82-5
- Career win rate
- 53.6%
- Average SRS
- -2.8
- Peak SRS
- 9.8
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
- 16
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 20.3
Primary school anchor
Miami (OH)
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 60.8.
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.
Randy Walker
EliteStrongAverageLean
Randy Walker: 1999 Northwestern
1990Actual season year • SRS range -21.2 to 9.82005
Active comparison point
Randy Walker • 1997
1997 Miami (OH)
Best season8-3 • SRS 9.8 • SP Overall 16.0
Win %
72.7%
YoY SRS
+12.1
SP Off / Def
41.7 / 29.0
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
2-10
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 16.7%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results37
| 2005 Regular Week 11 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #10 | L7-48 |
| 2005 Regular Week 9 | Northwestern | Michigan | #25 | L17-33 |
| 2005 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #22 | W49-14 |
| 2005 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Wisconsin | #14 | W51-48 |
| 2005 Regular Week 3 | Northwestern | Arizona State | #18 | L21-52 |
| 2005 Postseason Week 1 | Northwestern | UCLA | #16 | L38-50 |
| 2004 Regular Week 12 | Northwestern | Michigan | #9 | L20-42 |
| 2004 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Purdue | #17 | W13-10 |
| 2004 Regular Week 9 | Northwestern | Wisconsin | #6 | L12-24 |
| 2004 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #7 | W33-27 |
| 2004 Regular Week 5 | Northwestern | Minnesota | #19 | L17-43 |
| 2003 Regular Week 13 | Northwestern | Michigan | #5 | L10-41 |
| 2003 Regular Week 11 | Northwestern | Purdue | #18 | L14-34 |
| 2003 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Wisconsin | #20 | W16-7 |
| 2003 Regular Week 7 | Northwestern | Minnesota | #21 | L17-42 |
| 2003 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #4 | L0-20 |
| 2003 Postseason Week 1 | Northwestern | Bowling Green | #23 | L24-28 |
| 2002 Regular Week 12 | Northwestern | Iowa | #6 | L10-62 |
| 2002 Regular Week 9 | Northwestern | Penn State | #20 | L0-49 |
| 2002 Regular Week 7 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #5 | L16-27 |
| 2001 Regular Week 14 | Northwestern | Illinois | #10 | L28-34 |
| 2001 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Purdue | #24 | L27-32 |
| 2001 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #23 | W27-26 |
| 2000 Regular Week 11 | Northwestern | Michigan | #12 | W54-51 |
| 2000 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Purdue | #21 | L28-41 |
| 2000 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #18 | W37-17 |
| 2000 Regular Week 5 | Northwestern | Wisconsin | #7 | W47-44 |
| 2000 Regular Week 4 | Northwestern | TCU | #20 | L14-41 |
| 2000 Postseason Week 1 | Northwestern | Nebraska | #8 | L17-66 |
| 1999 Regular Week 12 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #17 | L0-34 |
| 1999 Regular Week 11 | Northwestern | Michigan | #16 | L3-37 |
| 1999 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Wisconsin | #11 | L19-35 |
| 1999 Regular Week 5 | Northwestern | Purdue | #13 | L23-31 |
| 1997 Regular Week 11 | Miami (OH) | Toledo | #22 | L28-35 |
| 1997 Regular Week 7 | Miami (OH) | Virginia Tech | #14 | W24-17 |
| 1995 Regular Week 6 | Miami (OH) | Michigan | #8 | L19-38 |
| 1995 Regular Week 4 | Miami (OH) | Northwestern | #25 | W30-28 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Northwestern
1999-2005 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 0.1 • Win % 44.6%
Miami (OH)
1990-1998 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS -4.9 • Win % 61.1%
- Longest tenure
- Miami (OH) • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Northwestern • 0.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Miami (OH) • 61.1%
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.
Randy Walker sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRandy Walker sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Randy Walker
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.1
- Percentile
- 61th 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.
Northwestern
1999-2005 • 37-46
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.1Win % 44.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.3 during vs 6.0 baseline
-0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.1 during vs 4.4 baseline
-4.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
1.0 during vs 5.1 baseline
-4.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Miami (OH)
1990-1998 • 58-36-5
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.9Win % 61.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 4.6 baseline
+1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.9 during vs -14.0 baseline
+9.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
1.2 during vs -7.6 baseline
+8.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Miami (OH) 1997
8-3 • SRS 9.8
Biggest Improvement
Miami (OH) 1995
8-2-1 • 18.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Northwestern 2000
8-4 • SP Off 46.9
Best Defensive Season
Miami (OH) 1991
6-4-1 • SP Def 17.5
Setbacks
Worst Season
Miami (OH) 1993
4-7 • SRS -21.2
Biggest Drop
Miami (OH) 1993
4-7 • -12.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Northwestern | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 8.7 | 8.0 | 38.8 | 30.9 | +7.1 | +8.3% |
| Northwestern | 2004 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 1.6 | 3.9 | 33.8 | 31.6 | +1.8 | +3.9% |
| Northwestern | 2003 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -0.2 | 2.8 | 28.8 | 26.9 | +11.7 | +21.1% |
| Northwestern | 2002 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -11.9 | -11.5 | 34.4 | 41.9 | -11.1 | -11.4% |
| Northwestern | 2001 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | #16 | — | -0.8 | -1.7 | 38.2 | 38.8 | -10.5 | -30.3% |
| Northwestern | 2000 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 9.7 | 13.7 | 46.9 | 36.6 | +16.4 | +39.4% |
| Northwestern | 1999 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -6.7 | -8.0 | 20.4 | 28.1 | -8.8 | -63.6% |
| Miami (OH) | 1998 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | — | 2.1 | 8.8 | 29.0 | 21.3 | -7.7 | +18.2% |
| Miami (OH) | 1997 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 9.8 | 16.0 | 41.7 | 29.0 | +12.1 | +18.2% |
| Miami (OH) | 1996 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -2.3 | 6.0 | 26.7 | 21.8 | -9.3 | -22.7% |
| Miami (OH) | 1995 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | — | 7.0 | 12.7 | 32.7 | 21.1 | +18.0 | +27.3% |
| Miami (OH) | 1994 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -11.0 | -6.7 | 26.2 | 32.3 | +10.2 | +13.6% |
| Miami (OH) | 1993 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -21.2 | -13.6 | 17.7 | 29.9 | -12.0 | -22.7% |
| Miami (OH) | 1992 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | -9.2 | -3.7 | 20.7 | 24.5 | -5.5 | 0.0% |
| Miami (OH) | 1991 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | -3.7 | 3.2 | 20.0 | 17.5 | +12.3 | +9.1% |
| Miami (OH) | 1990 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -16.0 | -11.5 | 18.0 | 28.4 | — | — |
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